I tried to sleep in on Saturday. It wasn't really working for me. Heather had a 4am pickup for the airport. I was expecting Erica around noon. So I caught up on email, wrote, worked a little bit until she got here. I also looked into what to do in Helsinki. My lfight gets into Finland at 10:30 pm and I don't fly out to Chicago the next day until 2:30pm. I wanted to explore the city a bit but I ended up just booking a room at the airport hotel. I figured by the ti...

Friday. It was tough to wake up today. Overslept a bit but wasn't too worried about it because we didn't have anything major for our workshop setup. Still got to the site in plenty of time to open up the tent, set up the tables, sneak into the info tent to get our supplies and make copies of certificates, and prep. It was chilly. Heather wore pants. I would have worn pants except I only brought my plane pants. =/ We divided the youth into their groups from yeste...

Thursday morning was our second workshop day. It was hot as ever. I was on adrenaline as this was my major day to present. All went well. We were both beyond tired. We tried to escape to our apartment and to souvenir shop right after the workshop, but Jon, another workshop presenter, caught us on our walk home. He was standing on the tram platform with Chuck and Chuck's wife, (CEO of San Francisco) so we had to go over and say hello. They invited us to lunch, an...

Wednesday was city day for the participants. YEurope set up 4 different stations across the city that everyone explored. Heather and I slept in, and then roamed the city. We went to a café she read about in a residential neighborhood. We couldn't figure out how to get there at first, but found it after about an hour. On the way was the most glorious and magnificent catholic church. It was obviously the central communal spot for the neighborhood. It was massive a...

Tuesday morning I got pooped on by a bird while waiting for the tram. We were all hyped up ready to go to the festival for the first day of our workshop. The sun was shining. We were early. And a bird pooped, splatted on my shoulder. Heather and I had water and tissues, so we did what we could to make me presentable. Also noticed while making breakfast that our new roommate had made herself comfortable in Prague by getting a few bottles of liquor and stocking th...