Had the most AMAZING day ever!! Well apart from all my friends leaving me this morning. Fought back the tears there. Can't believ how quickly the time has passed and how close we have all become. These people have been part of the happiest time of my life, and I will genuinely miss each and everyone of them when I come home. I will miss the whole atmosphere of being in the dorms with such an amazing group of people, each with such different life perspectives, thoughts and personalities. They are a truly special group of people, so intelligent and worldy, and I just want to put it out in cyberspace that every one of them has touched my life for ever. I'm getting teary just thinking about going back to the dorm! I have been out all day since everyone left and I know when I get home I will be expecting Kimi to be on the bed to talk to or running into a million different people's rooms to see what they are doing. I really want chinese food tonight but I\we always went together and I dont think I would appreciate it on my own so much! I might get it to take home!

So aside from that emotional start to the day, it's been pretty blissful!! I started out by going to the internet cafe to upload some pics to the net to free some space on my memory card. Took forever and I maybe got less than a quarter on there!!! Lucky matt is amazing and has saved them to his computer so I could delte the ones off my card that I did manage to get on the net. I went to my favourite internet cafe and didnt even have to ask the boy what I wanted just said dobry den (good morning) smiled and jumped on computer number 1. I swear they keep it free for me all day!! After that rather frustrating couple of hours I wandered up the backstreets of Prague and wound up at a BEAUTIFUL church surrounded by a lovely park. I took time to sit in the park and soak up the sunshine and went and sat in the church and said a prayer for my family. It was nice to just sit in awe and appreciate how beautiful this church was =)

By this time it was about 1 so I went to my favourtie supermarket Albert to get my favourite ceaser salad grabbed a copy of the Prague post and headed to the Island. I stretched out on the grass, listened to some music in the background and read the paper. How long it has been! I was right by the river with the castle in the background and I couldn't have been happier. I also found a homeless man in the park without a blanket or anything. I might return tommorow to give him my sleeping back and tent. He may never use them, he may think I pity him, but I am going to anyways because it's better then letting them go to waste in a dorm. Even if he leaves them in the park, someone who needs them will find them I'm sure.

So after spending god knows how long in the park (I have stopped wearing my watch) I went on a mission to find out how to get to my guitar man. I found him on the river bank, sat down with my paper and ordered a hot chocolate. Probably the best spot in the world for a hot chocolate. Not only was it amazing complete with whipped cream and served in a latte glass (and dont forget it's actually melted chocolate!), but the atmosphere was divine. Right there on the river looking over the castle, charles bridge and swans swimming along, I couldnt have been happier. I sang along to my guitar mans songs for what seemed like hours and then skipped along the street singing some more until I found myself in the Jewish quarter.

This was quite an unplanned destination, but I ended up visiting all the Jewsih places of significance, until I literally got pulled out of the cemetery by security guards yelling in czech that it was closed now. I had no idea it was that late in the day!! But it was amazing. The most moving part was the memorial to the Jewish people who died during the Nazi occupation. One part of this was just a whole room filled with names. Literally they lined the walls. It was pretty overwhelming actually. I also got to see the exhibition of paintings from children who survived terezin. Having been there myself, I was moved to tears. Terezin is one of the things that has really had an impact on me since I've been here.

After that I just sat for a bit in the Jewish quarter and walked the streets looking at all the mosques and the exhibitions. Read a lot about Jewish festivals and got to see some pretty amazing artefacts. Also went for a bit of a shop because everything in the Jewish quarter costs half the price that it does anywhere else! Wish I had known that before I bought presents!! But I got myself a pink jumper for like ten bucks when I saw the same one for thirty yesterday.

Not much else is news! Just want everyone to know that I am happy and in love... with my favourite city in the world! I am so happy I have made the decision to stay here longer and also to come home. Prague has taught me that there is more to a place then seeing it. You have to live it, breathe it, taste it, enjoy it to really experience it all. I want to fall in love with Greece and France and Italy the same way I have with Prague and I know some people can just jump on a plane and do whatever, I could have quite easily done it myself, but I would never want to waste my time if I wasn't living my dream. I can't wait to come back to Europe and really live it, I know it is going to be incredible. I know it is going to be hard work coming back home, but in those hardest hours, I will look back on my journey in Prague and know what it is all for. I wouldn't change a single thing I have done, a single decision I have made, a single day of this experience. It has been just incredible.

By the time I get home, it will have been six weeks!! I can't quite believe it. I am so so so looking forward to seeing all of you and sharing this part of my life. I dont think words will ever be able to explain what Prague has done to me, but I am still going to tell you all about it! I know when I get home there is going to be a lot of questions, probably a lot of criticism and a lot of talk, but I just want everyone to know that I am doing the right thing for me, and that's what counts. I won't live my life for someone else ever again.

I love you all so much! I will be seeing you soon =)

xoxoxox

Jessie