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Hmm, let's see. What did I do in two or three weeks of not writing in my journal? Let's see...I went to Prague. (Disappointingly I was not able to see the Golem, but I did get to see the Jewish Quarter), and we went to tea rooms and drank luscious teas and ate and ate wonderful foods. Had some lovely walks up and down cobbled streets (though when Jenny, Veronika, and Kelly decided to climb this monstrous series of steps, I thought I was going to die). Yeah. And yes, Prague is so so so beautiful. I recommend it, cause it's cheaper to buy a train ticket to Prague than to Berlin.Who knows why... Ah, I also went to Berlin for the Fulbright conference, a week long event full of schmoooooozing and meeting up with famous people and not so famous people and old friends and making new friends but keeping the old, because after all, one is silver and the other gold... As for Berlin, lots of greyness all over, and cranes, cranes, cranes everywhere, not the animal kinds, but the orangey-metal ones that just hang over buildings. And the Brandenburger Tor was being resurrected so it was covered with a cloth (not like Christos' thing over the Reichstag)...KaDeWe is worth it for the sixth floor, full ofo fancy-schmancy foods, wish they had more of the same in Munich, maybe they do, but it's hidden somewhere and probably costs too much. I did catch a cold so was sneezing and hacking a lot, sniffling, sniffling, trying desperately to inhale Vitamin C and stuff. I settled for lots of juice instead. Anna came over on Sunday with her sister on the midnight train and stayed over, last days of sunny spring until the cold came and swept over the city...making my cold worse. So I slept a lot on Wednesday and called it my sick day, wore jammies the day long and drank lots of OJ... I realized that I missed my Baby-Sitters Club books--I didn't realize that I read those kiddie books when I am sick, so I ended up reading Bridget Jones' Diary, a light weight book, which is perfect for reading in UBahn trips to the grocery store, cause it's so short and fluffy... I listen to Lisa Loeb's Cake and Pie over and over again and have fallen deeply in love with this song, "Drops Me Down"--the words go something like this: "I walked away to get wisdom/In the end I just walked home/And it drops me, it drops me down/and I'm not feeling so good again/It was the same song, and it's making me sad...." And I sing and sing right along...
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