česke' Budějovice
Rain Rain Rain Rain, and the ticket checker
16.08.2005
Well it hasnt stopped raining at all since i arrived into this town. It has been raining alllllll the time. anyway, i am the only one staying at the hostal so i am a bit bored but they have a t.v. there and i havent watched tv in over 2 weeks. so i made my dinner and watched Dennis the Menace in Czech. then some movie come on that i really liked with the actor Adrien Brody where he wants to become a ventriloquist, that was funny. well i stayed in my room all night looking at the wall and thinking about my life and how did i end up in the small town in the south of the Czech Republic that i didnt even know existed till like 4 days ago. I read "The Alchemist" again and was of course profoundly moved and made me think even more about what i am doing, which really is a dangerous thing for me cause i am capable or doing quite irrational things and the spur of the moment. I fell asleep and woke up at noon. it was still raining outside. i showered and got dressed and went to the train station to see how i can get to budapest tomm. well on my way over here i was on the bus and there was some guy coming around chewcking tickets, i was like, um i dont have a ticket cause tehre isnt anywhere to buy a ticket and you cant pay the bus driver and no one else has a ticket when they get on so whatever, it sthe same in italy and other countries as well. well today was my lucky day. This man comes up to me and says something and i play the "no entiendo" card he keeps speaking to me in czech and i am like hey buddy "no entiendo" so i speak broken english so he doesnt think i speak english in case he does. he was really upset and i think he asked me if i spoke german i said "nine" which was stupid cause i just responded in german. I was so muddled with so many languages in my head and this man was really pissed off and he kept speaking to me in Czech. he asked me for my passport and i said i didnt have it on me, it was at the hostal and he wrote down on a piece of paper 400 Krowns, i was like i am NOT giving you 400 Krowns. i got off on the next stop to get away from this situation and he got off too, i know he was trying to tell me that i had to pay to get on the bus which is fine i have NNOOOOOOOO problem paying to use public transportation but when there arent any places whatsoever to buy a ticket, its kind of hard and just because your system is shite doesnt give you the right to give me shit cause i am NOT the only one on that bus without a ticket buddy! He kept pointing and yelling i said "dont understand" he was poitnign at a ticket machine that happend to be there and i said "UBarku" {cause that was the name of my stop} and he was like yeah Ubarku i understand that so i was like "Ubarku as i pointed at the machine, NINE, Ubarku NINE {such as there arent any flippin ticket machines where i am at} i just walked away in the rain with my broken giraffe umbrella thats barely holding on. I was so upset, there arent any ticket machines anywhere, what do you want from me? anywaya, im gettign hungry, im goign back to the hostel and eat some food i bought and maybe watch a movie in Czech.
Posted by missmadrid 06:05 Archived in Czech Republic






Hi Christina, been reading about your journey through Eastern Europe. I find it very entertaining. Seems like you are having a great time and a wonderful adventure. Hope to see you when you come to California.
Jose Isturiz
18.08.2005 by jistu