almost to the end of yet another week. and a wierd one it has been. monday was the easter holiday here and the other two days have just been full with classes. since bone and bowers were here last week - i didnt work much. it was so nice to see some faces from home. nice to be aroud people who know all about you and you dont have to act any certain way with them. got to visit kutna hora and karljstein castle and just loads of sightseeing around prague. some nice fancy restaurants that i wouldnt have been able to go to otherwise. anyway - it was fun.

easter was probably one of the nicest services that i have attended in awhile. the house was packed out and everything was really nice. i got to serve communion with my favourite person in the world and just spend some time worshipping. after the service we did our usual going to dinner together and having some drinks. such a nice time.





on the bus with lotsa and bone...


picture taking in kutna hora


silly faces from linds..

sunday is here and easter. passover is going on now. such significant times for us and most of us, including myself, take them for granted. in fact most christians dont have a clue about any of the jewish holidays. not quite sure why this is. to me it seems like the jewish community has sucessfully upheld the important traditions of their faith and most christians have let our major holidays become consumer driven and in turn made our celebrations of faith meaningless. i admit that i have felt this in the past as well. when i think of easter - i have to search myself hard to get past this world view of what it means. bunnies, eggs, chocolate and just crap. why dont we as christians take more stock in where our faith comes from? why dont we participate in passover? why dont we celebrate lent? these are just questions that i ask myself. i want to know where i come from and who came before me. shouldnt we want to experience these things as christians? these are traditions that people have died for. the fathers of my faith whether jewish or catholic. this is where our faith comes from, whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, so why do we choose to be ignorant? why do we forget that jesus was a jew? anyway - this easter i am trying to remember where i came from. i want to try and follow the rabbi that changed everything.

spring may have finally arrived to stay here. trees budding, jacket free, and with the nice weather it brings the masses.

walking in starometske namesti this afternoon i realized that i have to share my city with so many other people. guess i cant really complaign. sunshine on my back, wearing short sleeves again, and sandals is so nice. i have been dreaming of this warmth for several months now.

you should see the river flow, full of melted slush from the mountains, almost running over like a bath when flesh jumps in.

my favorite pub in prague closed. sad day - many memories.. farewell.

james brown on the radio here in this cafe - makes me wanna dance..

bone and bowers are too arrive tomorrow. sunday at noon. hopefully i can get out of bed in time to go get them from the airport. fun days ahead.

it is a bit late (over a week) since we have been back from krakow -but i figured nonetheless i would post a few pictures. we had a really goood time overall with only some minor snares on the trip home. kinda forgot about daylight savings starting that saturday night and missed our train backto prague - so we got back at about 8ish on Monday morning. krakow is really a nice town. smaller than prague, but more real feeling. like all the streets werent pristine, and it just seems realy lived in. not a bad thing at all. the jewish quarter was realy nice as well as the old town and wawel castle (pronounced vavel - thanks to ula's correction..). we spent our days just basically wandering about and getting lost on backstreets. the food was realy quite nice. many perogis were consumed along with some very nice borscht and lindsay found a pastry shop that she wanted to stop in most every morning (ok - so you who know me know it was me just as much as she, but...) that had so many nice things. so here are the pictures - or a few of them anyway. more later this week - i have just been really not able to get on the internet much lately.