Czech Film Club, Das Filmfest, Brno Reunion and Erasmus Welcome Dinner
I've again been very busy and engaged in a variety of things over the course of the last week:
On Wednesday evening I went to the Czech Film Club to see the film "Loners" (Samotáři), "a story about seven Prague-based characters, all in their mid twenties. Each reflects a part of the chaos in our own lives, and the mess in our heads. Almost all of them attempt to forge and sustain "serious" relationships, which in turn become a series of clashes and lead to disappointment, and finally back to loneliness."
I found the movie a bit... let's just call it different ;), but I'm glad the International Office offers activities like this, so I'm not going to complain and I will probably go there again next week. :)
This week was "Das Filmfest" on, a festival with more that 40 acts from Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as guests like Corinna Harfouch and Hauschka (if you're interested in the films etc. that were shown you can check http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/fdf/deindex.htm ).
Together with Marta from Poland, her roommate from Slovakia and Steph from Australia I wanted to see the movie "Was bleibt" (German trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAphxmktzO4 ).
I had checked the available seats on the internet beforehand to see if we needed to reserve tickets, but there were lots of free seats, so I thought we would be fine.
When we got there half an hour before the film started, we had to discover that the movie was sold out and we couldn't get in... :(
Therefore we decided to go to another cinema that showed the film "Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden" (German trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNkONlZCBo ). I have to admit that I didn't really like the film - to me it seemed full of nudity, drugs and violence.
The cinema itself looked quite pretty though:
On Friday Marta, Joris and I went to the operating room and as you can see we had a lot of fun just fooling around:
In the afternoon I went on a Free Walking Tour through Prague together with my Czech buddy Thereza and Joris, one of my German fellow students.
It was really interesting and even though I knew most of the things they told us, I learned some new facts as well and it was nice to just go for a long walk through the city centre.
Afterwards Thereza showed us "what has to be Prague's best ice-cream shop" and we went to the Franciscan Gardens to enjoy our ice cream:
I had to get up early on Saturday as I went on a day-trip to Kutna Hora that day (I'm going to tell you about that in a separate blog entry).
When I came back in Prague in the evening, I quickly went home to get changed and then met up with some of the Erasmus students I knew from my intensive language course in Brno as well as some of my fellow students from uni:
On Sunday I enjoyed a delicious brunch at the Globe Cafe and Bookstore with my former roommate Maria from Estonia and I also showed her around the city:
At Wenceslas Square
Yesterday I went to the Erasmus Welcome Party where we were officially welcomed by the faculty and also got a lot of nice gifts including pens and mugs with the logo of the faculty and a postcard and map of Prague.
As you can see here, they also prepared some nice appetizers for us:
Joris, me and Marta from Poland
On Wednesday evening I went to the Czech Film Club to see the film "Loners" (Samotáři), "a story about seven Prague-based characters, all in their mid twenties. Each reflects a part of the chaos in our own lives, and the mess in our heads. Almost all of them attempt to forge and sustain "serious" relationships, which in turn become a series of clashes and lead to disappointment, and finally back to loneliness."
I found the movie a bit... let's just call it different ;), but I'm glad the International Office offers activities like this, so I'm not going to complain and I will probably go there again next week. :)
This week was "Das Filmfest" on, a festival with more that 40 acts from Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as guests like Corinna Harfouch and Hauschka (if you're interested in the films etc. that were shown you can check http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/fdf/deindex.htm ).
Together with Marta from Poland, her roommate from Slovakia and Steph from Australia I wanted to see the movie "Was bleibt" (German trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAphxmktzO4 ).
I had checked the available seats on the internet beforehand to see if we needed to reserve tickets, but there were lots of free seats, so I thought we would be fine.
When we got there half an hour before the film started, we had to discover that the movie was sold out and we couldn't get in... :(
Therefore we decided to go to another cinema that showed the film "Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden" (German trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNkONlZCBo ). I have to admit that I didn't really like the film - to me it seemed full of nudity, drugs and violence.
The cinema itself looked quite pretty though:
On Friday Marta, Joris and I went to the operating room and as you can see we had a lot of fun just fooling around:
In the afternoon I went on a Free Walking Tour through Prague together with my Czech buddy Thereza and Joris, one of my German fellow students.
It was really interesting and even though I knew most of the things they told us, I learned some new facts as well and it was nice to just go for a long walk through the city centre.
Afterwards Thereza showed us "what has to be Prague's best ice-cream shop" and we went to the Franciscan Gardens to enjoy our ice cream:
I had to get up early on Saturday as I went on a day-trip to Kutna Hora that day (I'm going to tell you about that in a separate blog entry).
When I came back in Prague in the evening, I quickly went home to get changed and then met up with some of the Erasmus students I knew from my intensive language course in Brno as well as some of my fellow students from uni:
On Sunday I enjoyed a delicious brunch at the Globe Cafe and Bookstore with my former roommate Maria from Estonia and I also showed her around the city:
At Wenceslas Square
Yesterday I went to the Erasmus Welcome Party where we were officially welcomed by the faculty and also got a lot of nice gifts including pens and mugs with the logo of the faculty and a postcard and map of Prague.
As you can see here, they also prepared some nice appetizers for us:
Joris, me and Marta from Poland
christina_abroad - 23. Okt, 16:54
