Wednesday, February 1, 2006

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of Czech language, metro rides, bar-hopping and mid-afternoon naps. On Saturday, after a late night at Acropolis, a pub/club we go to a lot, we got up early for our program excursion to Kutna Hora. The historical city that housed the king has a large cathedral, statue-strewn downtown, and the infamous bone cathedral. The bone cathedral was by far the most interesting part of the trip; the church is decorated with the bones of around 1500 human beings who were buried in the cemetery. I have a ton of pictures and will try to post them soon.

On Sunday, after cleaning the apartment, I went out to brunch at Bohemian Bagel and had some good ol' fashion American food, and then accompanied Emily, Dyani, Connor and Alison to the Sex Machine Museum in Old Town and then to the Salvador Dali exhibit right by the Charles Bridge. The Sex Museum had all kinds of sexual toys exhibited like artifacts, along with a pornongraphic film made in 1925 in Spain. There were seats with people to watch the film, but nobody wanted to sit down and admit that they were actually watching it. It was pretty awkward, making the rather explicit scenes very amusing. Note: really fat women having sex with really skinny men is funny.

Then we went to the Dali exhibit. The entire collection was the illustrations Dali made to correspond with Dante's Divine Comedy. While there were very little motifs linking the illustrations, they were all very interesting to look at and compare with the images I created in my mind as I read The Inferno so many years ago.