(written march 2)
so the night was shaping up to be a nice one......this ozzie guy (i know, i know) and his indian friend had breezed into town and after a nap had invited me to join them for dinner...consequently, i chose to read in the hostel for a while......when i happened back, they had already left.....no worries! i'll do some laundry then......i pack up my gear (clothes, coap and entertainment) and make my way out of the hostel....within about 3 mins i feel a tap on my shoulder....i turn around to see this dude--this older saudi guy who i'd briefly encountered the previous day.....nice enough.....but one of those people that you get the feeling want something from you.....so he sais that he was at the laundromat the day before and wants to walk with me....no skin off my nose........but soon enough i start to realize that he has no idea where he's going.....i have a map and verbal directions from the girl at the hostel.....i pointed out the "cerna ruse" as the girl had told me......he persisted that it was a block further......a block further and we were at wenceslas square and i knew we'd gone too far....i turned back into the mall......now it was becoming apparent that, not only had he not been to this laundromat before, he had no idea what a laundromat was......we were just about to leave as i noticed it on the second floor.
unfortunately, it was closing.
this meant that i now had the pleasure of walking back to the hostel with this dude........i neither wanted nor needed his help or company......why didn't i just say so? i would have at home.....now, i'm a prisoner in my dorm room.....the dude is patrolling the halls loking for some other unsuspecting person to attach himself to......so here i am, no rowdy night out.....no errands completed......
what a way to wind up an eerily deserted and windy day through Terezin.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
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4 comments:
Well it's good to hear that you're making some friends :), albeit some interesting ones. The trip sounds tiring but really awesome. I would love to see all the old architecture. It's so boring here in comparison, once you've seen one peach stucko townhouse you've seen them all. After being in a fairytale land you're not going to want to come home to our boring bathrooms.
Keep posting and take care of yourself, beware of the vodka that flows like water.
Katy
aw boo! next time: 'just say no', to, um, weird guys who act like they know where they're going when they really don't. ha.
:-S So you missed the guys that invited you to dinner and then ended up with the weird guy you didn't want to hang with? That sounds like home to me :D
I misssss you. And what is with you and creeeepy men????
Sharon Mary
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