Dealing with technology...

Dear Readers,

As turn of events would have it, I am having technical difficulties with the laptop at home. There seem to be some sort of problem with the internet and the communication with my notebook. Due to unknown complications I am limited to the pages that I am able to access and it's causing some difficulties uploading photos from my camera to the website. Hopefully soon Ginte and I will have our photos from Spain online. I'll keep you posted.

Events for this week:

I went back to school. And my first class back was Calculus...joy. However, all my other classes seem really interesting. Oddly enough, I really enjoyed my microeconomics class and am looking forward to the rest of the semester. Other than going back to school, nothing exciting or eventful has happened! Unfortunately I have no wild tales of rabid, one eyed dogs chasing me or lunches with world Ambassadors...pity. Well, this is my first week in Prague...

Sophia

Viva España

Hola!!!! Here I am in Spain :-) It is everything I imagined and more! It´s currently Thursday, September 21 at 7:31pm in an Internet Cafe. Ginte and I have been in Spain since last Saturday staying at a villa in Sant Pol de Mar 40 minutes outside of Barcelona. The owner of the villa is friends with Ginte´s mom so we were able to stay there for free! It´s wonderful since we´re overlooking the sea and every morning we eat breakfast out in the yard!!!

Will finish later...

Touch Down...

The flight was successful! My plane wasn't highjacked, I wasn't killed by the airplane food and I managed to catch some shut-eye between Montreal and Paris! I arrived in Prague at 12:30 pm after being line at customs for like 20 minutes! Since I don't have an EU passport I was relegated to standing in the "All Others" passport line which was of course longer, and slower moving than the "EU Passport Holders" line. Pfff. Europe. So after standing in line, for what seemed like forever - although I must note that my perception of time was thrown off considerably due to the fact that I just crossed 9 time zones and hadn't had a full nights sleep for almost 48 hours. Anyways, i'm like 2 people away from being checked and then the guard made some weird gestures with his hands (it looked like he was saying 2) and then check a couple in front of me and quickly put up a "closed" sign for his booth! Dramatically enough, I was the face of the person he shoved the "closed" sign into! Thank goodness though, another booth opened at the same time. However, since I was at the front of the line I had to join onto the back of the line that had quickly gathered at the newly opened booth and waited some more! This delay, however, was compensated by the quick arrival of my luggage. The moment I walked up to the thingy...(sorry mind blank)...my bags were there! In addition I had a welcoming committee meet me at the arrival gates. The mission president, his wife and three other missionaries were there waiting. Well...it's a lie. They weren't actually waiting for me...they were waiting for a missionary that was apparently arriving on the same flight as me! I know...too bad! But they recogized me and was about as surprised to see me as I was them! It was a blessing I ran into them actually because Rostya wasn't there at the airport yet and had been desperately trying to contact me to let me know that she was coming from a meeting earlier and was racing through traffic at that very moment! The mission president happened to have her phone number in his cell phone and I was able to contact her and arrange where to meet! It was an adventure :-)

Up next...Espana...

1st Entry

Dear All,

Welcome to the very FIRST posting on Sophia's Travels! The journey begins from Vancouver, Canada...

Departure date: September 13, 2006
Destination: Prague, Czech Republic
Duration of Stay: 10 months
Purpose of Travel: To study and see the world
Cost of the experience of a lifetime? Priceless

Na Zdravi