Well our trip abroad is now officially over. Myself and five others left yesterday around noon and set off for Prague while the others stayed in Vilnius and departed earlier this morning for Warsaw for a 7 hour layover, then to Amsterdam and finally back to Atlanta. When we arrived in Prague, we still had several hours of daylight since we arrived around 3:30. We set off and went and dumped our bags off at our hotels by the airport and the girls’ dropped their luggage, that was to be checked, off at our hotels before we set out to go into down town Prague. Our hotel was right by the airport so it made it very convenient for everyone to be able to get their stuff checked and ready to go on the plane in a reasonable amount of time.
Prague was a awesome city and seemed to have more sights to see everywhere you looked. We ventured to the top of what had to be the largest flight of stairs in the entire city to get the best view possible. It was simply amazing to say the least. From there we went back down the hill side this time instead of the stairs and ventured back toward where we started after getting off the bus in down town. There was some sort of music festival going on in one of the town squares with delicious smelling food. There we met several students from North Carolina and they talked about what they had been doing in the town since their arrival a month ago. We then went and dropped the girls’ carry-on bags off at their hotel and went to find some dinner. After that we went through several of the shops close by. After getting a t-shirt or two, we went back to our hotels and called it a night. Unfortunately we were yet again encountered with a hotel that thought charging their guests for internet access was acceptable, so I had to wait until the 9 hour plane right back home to type it out for posting when we reach stateside.
This morning everything went smoothly with getting all of our bags checked and getting through security other than the fact they decided to keep a socket (as in ratchet and socket tool) for some reason or another that was in my bag. Other than that, everything was a smooth as could be. As I’m finishing up summing our last day and a half worth of experience, we are currently about two hours outside of the US boarder and I think we’re all looking forward to getting off this plane.
This has been an incredible experience and I highly recommend it to anyone even remotely considering it. Thanks so much to Dr. Shook because without him and his easy going personality, we would have never been able to do everything we have. I have extremely enjoyed getting to learn about the economic situation as well as the way businesses function in Eastern Europe. I would also like to thank all of our followers of the blog and twitter. All the friends and family back home keeping up with us have really motivated us into sharing our story and I hope that it has at least entertained you all if nothing else.
-Derek Godwin
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