in prague

i went to vienna, austria a while back (with plane stops in detroit, michigan and amsterdam, netherlands on the way) and i was in vienna for over a week but now i am in prague, czech republic (got here 2 days ago) and will be going back to vienna later today and then in a few days we (parents & i) will go to budapest, hugary for 3 days and then back to vienna. i will be home in 10 days or something like that. anyway, the C.O.N.S.P.I.R.A.C.Y. has been keeping me off all of their internets, but i found an internet at the hotel here in prague that is free for all the customers to use. the big CON can’t keep me offline! i am a 1337 h@x0r! i can haz internets? anyway, the main point of the big trip to vienna is to visit my sister and her husband and baby and dog, and they will be accompanying us to budapest (but they did not come to prague with us). in less than 2 weeks i will be back in amerika (i think that is how the german-speaking people all spell it). i do not know much of what has been going on lately, although this bosnian serb leader radavan karadic or whatever he is called seems to have been taken to prison and is being put on trial, and it is less than 100 days until barack obama defeats john mccain in the general election back in the states. the czech republic has a weird slavic language which means it is nothing like english, and hungary has a weird finno-ugric language which is even less like english. german is a germanic language just like english, and the romance languages like french, spanish, italian, portuguese, romanian, and latin are all kind of like english too. i am lucky my mom knows hungarian. and almost everyone in the czech republic knows english, or maybe just all the people involved in the tourism industry in prague. my parents both know german and so does my sister and her husband. i only know english and some spanish. ich nicht sprache deutch. so austria is kinda hard for me since my parents talk in german all the time to all the “good germans” known as austrians (who had absolutely nothing to do with the nazis and their fellow austrians like adolf hitler and adolf eichmann) and i don’t get to talk much english with the locals there. at least in the czech republic i am on an almost equal footing with my parents, except my mom has some small advantage, since czech has some words in common with hungarian for some odd reason. anyway, the big CON is back to forcibly remove me from accessing their precious internets. the precioussss! smigel wantsssss it! praise “bob”! “bob” bless america, my home sweet home. now i am off to visit a giant castle in prague up on top of a very high hill on the other side of the river (the west side, cuz ya know it’s the best side). then back on a train to vienna this afternoon around 5 pm (it is around 11:30 am here). prague is like the biggest tourist trap in the world. at the restaraunt last night there were pretzels sitting on all the tables that looked free, but each one cost the equivalent of 3 american dollars (or 2 euros). they try to trick you into thinking their money is worthless, but the czech kronen is worth 1/15 of a dollar or 1/25 of a euro, so you have to do the math to figure out the prices in this strange tourist trap called prague (the only major city in europe that was never destroyed by war).