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 and had just undergone an extensive restoration. The cafe was the type of café that people plot out world enterprises or new inventions in. The food was delicious. We stayed there for a couple hours. Then walked back home a different way as everyone was getting out of work. It's fun to see customs and clothes.

We grabbed some groceries on the way back from what we later found out was like an Aldi. There was a woman in front of us (one of the only black locals I've seen) buying cat litter with her food stamps. You can only imagine all the questions and commentary that raised in my head given my line of work. The dude at the register was creepy. The food tasted good.

When we got home we made a salad and got on our laptops to work a bit. Depressing, but necessary. The whole day really got away from us. We sat in the kitchen working with wine until our friends invited us for drinks. It was already 9:30. So we got ready and headed out. We got there - Pivovar - and tried to snag a table. The creepy guy from the Aldi check-out was there. And I've also learned here men leave like their 4 top buttons open. Lots of skin and chest hair sprouting about here. It's apparently not customary to move chairs from one table to another, and we got scolded. So, we ended up waiting outside. We discussed the next morning's workshop while we waited. 30 minutes later with no wifi and no friends, we headed back home. Turns out they got caught up at dinner. No worries.

Instead, we cracked our Kozels and watched a terrible French horror movie with subtitles. It was the kind that was agonizing to watch, yet you couldn't stop watching it. It involved a circus girl getting impregnated by a snake alien that eventually birthed into a squid that talked to her and controlled her and was going to take over humanity in 5 billion years. Her name was Yanka.

We went to bed in anticipation of our workshop the next morning.