wow i really have been such a blog slacker. here's a recap of the last few weeks since pariiiii.
Feb 25-28: anna and ally came to visit!!!!!!! anna travelled all the way from BUDAPEST with her two roomates, and ally flew in from FLORENCE for a weekend of funfunfun. they brought sunshine and amazing weather with them, so it was such a good chance to walk around and really get to see the city. every day we did SO much walking, and at night went out to some of my favorite clubs (lucerna, radost, karlovy lazne). one night we had a Taco Night and about 25 people came over for tacos and drinking and fun! crazy story: Anna's guy-roomies were also in Praha that weekend, and happened to be staying with a boy from MY program, so we all hung out and ate tacos together. IT WAS NUTS!!! anyway. the weekend was fantastic, and so comforting to be with my Wisco Ladies :) --see you in Budapest next weekend, Shmanna :)
Last weekend, March 5-7, was a pretty moving weekend. that Friday CET took us on a day-trip to Lidice, a town about 45 mins outside of Prague that was completely wiped out during WWII. because a few resistance-fighters had been living in this small village, the Nazis decided to either kill or send away (to concentration camps) all the men, women, and children and burn the entire town to the ground. we had the opportunity to hear from one of the few surviving children of Lidice, and she shared her stories of living in the town, her experiences at Auschwitz concentration camp, and the feelings she experienced upon re-entry into the "real world." overall, it was such a moving experience and i'm so glad we got the opportunity to learn about this.
then on sunday we went on another heart-wrenching trip, this time to Terezin, a concentration camp/Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust that is just an hour outside of Prague. this time, we received a tour from a Holocaust survivor who had experienced Terezin firsthand, and had also been sent to Auschwitz later on. having Felix as our tourguide made the experience that much more moving: he was able to give us vivid details of the horrors that went on in this place, and enabled us to get a clearer idea of the tragedy that was the Holocaust. going to a place like Terezin really forces you to think about the Holocaust in a real way, and understand that it is an event that cannot be forgotten. my generation will be the last to meet Holocaust survivors firsthand, and this responsibility is something that we were all thinking about on our tour of Terezin. Felix's request at the end of our tour was to tell our friends and family about what we saw at Terezin, and to not let the memory of the Holocaust vanish with time.
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