finally updating!

Last Thursday, we took a field trip to Josefov, the Jewish quarter of Prague, where I saw the old Jewish cemetary (where the creator of the Golem is buried) and various synagogues that were ancient and beautiful. Kind of depressing though, because most of the people who used all these synagogues were all killed, as is the case with all the Jewish sections of the Central European cities we see.

Then on Friday we left for Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia. It was a five hour train ride and it's always a thrill to get a new stamp on your passport. We arrived at Chez David, a pseudo-Jewish themed penzion, got a brief tour of the centrum, and went to dinner with a group of Slovak students in a cellar hospoda. The next day Tom and I hiked up a tall hill to see the incredibly ostentatious Soviet war memorial and cemetary, which had a great view of the city and its castle. Later that day the entire group went to A4, an "alternative" art space in Bratislava, to make arts and crafts out of used computer parts. I definitely am not artistically gifted when it comes to handicrafts. I got a lot of glue on myself, which was fun. Three of us met with a man who runs an NGO for the Roma population--very enlightening---and then we went back to A4 for a "retro party" where people watched old Communist music videos from the 70's and 80's. I will try and post links to some of these videos, because they're hysterical.

To be continued!