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[jelenaervinovic]

First week in Prague 🇨🇿

We’ve completed our first week of working at C-IN. Working with Hanne as my colleague has been really fun.

on Monday, Hanne and I went to our internship company, C-IN, and we met our mentors Aleš, Eliška and Sara.

During this week we were given many tasks that allowed us to get to know the company better.

[23weeksinlondon]

[theworldsokayestlesbian]

Tonight was a really good night, and it made me realize that I am really going to miss the people here, even the ones I barely know

[theworldsokayestlesbian]

One of the Belgian guys here didn't know the Titanic was a real ship

[theworldsokayestlesbian]

I'm meeting up with a Spanish person who is learning Dutch and who actually lives in Brussels now. It's going to be great to be on the other side for once.

[theworldsokayestlesbian]

So we had to translate Pablo Neruda's poem Oda al mar, and we were having difficulty referring to the ocean and the rock, because in Spanish they are both feminine, but maybe the author wanted to portray the seductive game between a man and a woman.

But instead my teacher said, out of the blue,: "A lesbian interpretation is certainly possible here, to see the ocean as feminine and the rock as feminine as well." 

So basically, for once I wasn't the only one in class that found the lesbian subtext.

[theworldsokayestlesbian]

What a day!

When I was on the metro to g to my last class of the week, I sat next to the most adorable 5-year old to ever walk the earth. She showed me the new shoes her mom had bought her, and I smiled. Then I said hello and we had a really good conversation about how much bigger my shoes are. She also had never heard of Belgium and then asked why it is such a small country. She was so fucking adorable. I felt bad thatI had to get off the metro and go to class.

During class I started talking to one of the girls that I'd seen there every week. Turns out she wanted to cosplay at the Saló de Manga but that she was too late to buy tickets. It seems like I have finally found my kind of person! After class she even walked to the metro station with me, even though she wasn't going there. 

So after taking the metro, I went to the Boquería to buy some fruit salad (at closing time they sell them at half the price) and later I went to this wok restaurant. A random girl asked me where I got the fruit salad, and later she invited me to sit with her and her mother. Normally I was going to eat it in my room, but I figured having some company during dinner was nice. So turns out that they were from Paris and that they are here only for the weekend. We had a lovely conversation. I spoke in Spanish with an occasional French word, the daughter spoke Spanish mixed with French and the mother spoke French only. It must have been funny to hear. They were such lovely people. I stayed with them for about an hour and a half. I might run into them this weekend, and I kind of hope so because it was fun hanging out with them.

[theworldsokayestlesbian]

I have this one class that's called Translation 7 and all we do is translate scenes from Hamlet and listen to the professor talk about things that aren't relevant to the class. During the first class I asked her if it was okay that I took the class, not being a native speaker of English nor Spanish, and she was okay with it.

Yet she keeps referring to me as "the American".