October 25th, 2013

Well, today was an interesting day to say the least.  It began with a well planned out day of finally going to see a Czech soccer game.  The site online said the game should be at noon, so Katie and I headed to the outskirts of Prague for the game.  When we got to where the game should have been it was creepily empty... We eventually wandered until we found a shopping mall where we got wifi only to realize the game was at 7, not noon.  Disappointed we headed back into town and made plans to go to one of the 'must see' sites in Prague, the Vietnamese Market.  We picked up my roommate and headed out.  The ride took almost an hour because of traffic and we have reached the actual edge of Prague.  There was the market and then fields as far as you could see.  Now when you hear that something is a must see in Prague and you see pictures on the internet that looks like this:

You think it will be a place full of cute little family run markets just like this.  Well...it is all a lie.  The Vietnamese Market was not a happy place.  We walked in and it looked like it was abandoned, run down buildings with no one else in sight...it was a little more than off putting.  Eventually we found people who were selling things but it reminded me of the cattle barns at state fair.  It was just giant warehouses packed with overpriced clothing that was only sold in bulk.  The outside looked more like a loading dock than a market and in general it was just not what we expected.  On our way out, after being thoroughly disappointed, we decided to try and at least get some boba tea (a common item to find in Asia) but we really should have stopped while we were ahead.  We are still not sure if there was any tea in whatever we drank.  The tea my friends ordered was powdered and tasted like chemicals, mine was supposed to be a yogurt based drink, but apparently yogurt=slime.  It didn't taste as bad as my friends but I did get a bad headache after drinking it and felt like I had a fever.  Once we had left we were waiting at the bus stop and there is a bunch of people yelling in Czech, so of course we were confused.  Eventually we saw a girl passed out behind the bus stop with no shoes on.  We were just confused and got on the bus and left.  Sadly I did not take any pictures because I was just confused with life at this point.

After our very odd afternoon Katie and I headed off to the soccer game.  This turned out to easily be the best part of our day.  The game was amazingly fun and exactly what you would expect from European soccer.  We got our quality game food of sausage, bread and beer (which tasted like keystone...)  After the game we tried to go home only to realize none of the trams were going the right way.  Only bright side of this, the Czech people were confused too.  After about double the time it should have taken us we finally arrived home after what had easily been my weirdest day in Prague thus far.