So every Wednesday, all of the international students (around 400 of us) congregate to watch the students from three countries present whatever it is they want about their home country. This usually involves movies, pictures, facts, dances and as always, drinking games. Most choose to summarize what one might find if searching wikipedia for the country, show a commercial from their favorite beer back at home and then scroll through pictures of the most famous topless women, born in their native land. After this, they call volunteers up on stage to participate in a drinking game. It's usually the same 10-12 people doing the same thing. Drinking beer as fast as they can.
The whole thing is wildly ammusing and the atmosphere is fun. The common language is English, so it's a nice break from not understanding a single thing that's said around you all day long. The USA presentation is a ways off (a month or so, maybe) so we've still got time to think of something a little bit more original.
The parties are held either in the pub in the basement of our dorm, or at the 'PM Bar' closer to downtown Prague. They start at 9:00 and the presentations usualy wrap up at around 11:30 or so. The dance party goes on until the early hours of the morning. Last night, we opted to leave after the presentations so that we could avoid the nightmare that is getting home after the metro closes.
P.S. We bought tickets to Vienna yesterday ($25, round trip) and are hoping to hop a bus to Budapest Saturday morning for the weekend. Four of us are going to arrive in Vienna on Nov. 10th and return on the following Tuesday evening.
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