School Update

Last week was my 2nd full week of my project class: Distance Conversation with prof. Yomar Augusto. Im really liking this class! It's pretty much do whatever you want to do...For my project I decided to collect tweets, so my little tweethearts what you write is my project! and i am turning them into posters with a typeface I made myself by folding paper. And also a book with hand drawn type and lots of patterning. I also made a type sculpture but it's not the greatest. I hope Yomar will like it! I never really know what he is thinking >_< but he is super chill. In class we had these great type stamps which I went a little crazy with. I just hope I finish everything by January.

My fachkurs class has changed once again since the last time. I am still in the Brochure class, which is going nowhere. I still feel very uncomfortable in that class, since its all in German and Im pretty sure the prof doesn't know what to do with me and thinks im dumb. But last class we were sorting photos as pictured above. Its a group of 6 making 1 brochure, I still don't know where I really fit in. Not a huge fan of it. My other fachkur is now typeface design with Jay Rutherford (the one on the table in the photo), a prof from Canada so the class is half German half English which makes it so much better =)

Food Porn: Prague

1. A sweet cheese cookie
2. Trdelnik: It is made from rolled dough, wrapped around a stick then grilled and topped with sugar and walnut mix.
3. Karoline's bacon and onion pie and hot wine
4. smažený sýr: fried s cheese topped in a bun
5. Lango, one of my new fav foods
6. Pork with bread dumplings and whipped cream ( which i was very confused )
7.  Beef goulash with rice
8. chicken skewer and sausage on a bun
9. Marlenka: honey cake
10. Prague ham cooked on a fire
11. Roast duck with bread dumplings and sauerkraut
12. Lamb with potato dumplings and garlic creamed spinach
13. First cupcakes found in Europe!

Prague

I haven't blogged in a while but from November 11th - 14th we went to Prague, Czech Republic. What a beautiful city! It was about 5-6 hour train ride from Weimar. And right when we crossed the border you see police and dogs coming in on the train. We stayed at the downtown hostel. Everything is so close to each other! So the first day we wandered the city, through the old town and of course shopping. Everything is so close to each other its great! There were little food stands in the middle! Then we had dinner at a small restaurant but i was so tired i fell asleep at the table and after some gluhwein i felt kinda really sick >_<

The next day we went on a free walking tour. Our tour guide was kinda amazing, he makes learning fun. We saw the big sights such as the astronomical clock, wenceslas square, jewish quarter, powder tower etc. We met up with the others after the tour and went to dinner for some czech food and some beer.

The next day we went to the Mucha and Salvador Dali museum. We also went up the astronomical clock which had a great view and it was so fun to see all the tourists below! Later on the night we went to Charles bridge and to Prague castle. At night we went to some bar with all these crazy contraptions all over the place. The last day was just breakfast, then to see the dancing house by Frank Gehry, souvenir shopping and the train ride home.