Sunday, is the day of delightful adventures. It started with a 9am wake-up call (not my favorite, but not horrible). At about 10am, Stephanie and I left our flat to go across town to the foreign police to put our name on a list in order to get a spot in line to see the foreign police on Monday. When we arrived at the foreign police, the only people there were the scary Ukranian mafia members. They did have a list, but Steph and I were scared to go put our names on this list because several people had refused to put their name on the list. Steph and I go home at 12:30pm (lunch and walking were invovled in pre-home activities).
At 4:30pm, Katie and Frank call (friends from a different school). Frank and Katie say, hey meet us at the foreign police and we will try to get our names on the list. Ashley and Stephanie head to the foreign police, again. Arrive at 5:30pm. Katie puts our names on the scary Ukranian mafia list. Informed that we have to come back to the foreign police at Midnight for roll call and to form the line. Go home again.
Once at home, I must call my head English teacher to inform her that I did get on the list and would not be able to teach the next. Head English teacher says that I have to teach the next, and that she and I will go to the foreign police together on Wednesday. I stress out and try to plan a lesson for the next day. 9pm, Head English teacher calls and decides that it will be ok for me to go the foreign police with my friends on Monday. I stress out because I haven't actually planned to go to the foreign police, and must now prepare myself for an evening in the cold.
10:45pm, leave the flat to go the foreign police for the Midnight roll call. 11:30pm, arrive at foreign police find Frank and Katie, see about 150 other people waiting to be put in line. Midnight, nice Ukranian lady puts people in a line. Katie, Steph, Frank, and I set up our places for the evening. We kind of look like homeless folks (i will put pictures at the bottom). Katie dances an Irish gig, we drink hot pear juice with plum brandy, and we slowly freeze.
3:00am, roll call number 2. Very mean Ukranian lady comes to yell at us and make sure we are in the right spot. She keeps telling the mass of people to move back, but their are people pushing and shoving from behind so we can't move back. She doesn't like this. Eventually we start to form two lines. Angry African guy gets upset because he doesn't get a place in line. Claims his name is on the list, but clearly his name is not on the list. Ukranian lady and African guy get in fight right next to me. African guys goes to the back of the line. Ukranian lady keeps forming the line. African guy then chooses to call Ukranian lady some choice words (not worth repeating, but very explicit) and push her. Ukranian Mafia do not take kindly to African guy cursing and pushing their lady. Also, normal prague police shoe up to control crowd. African guy trys to hit police officer, police officers is not impressed and makes African guy leave. African guy and friend leave. Ukranian mafia men then follow the African guy making sure that take aluminum baseball bats and guns (this point the foreign police is extremely scary).
Katie finds police officers to flirt with, this is beneficial to retaining our spot in line.
8am, we finally enter the foreign police office. Get number. Frank is number 15; I am number 16! Awesome, we should be out of here in no time. We go to the waiting room with 200 other people. The waiting room is basically like purgatory. Everyone is waiting, but no one can leave. 9am rolls around, we are on number 3. 10am, number 4. 11am, number 5. 12pm, number 6 and 7. 1pm numbers 8 and 9. Finally 2pm, the numbers actually start to roll. I finally get to see a foreign police officer at 2:50pm. Get in register my visa (yes the only reason to go to the foreign police, and really don't understand why you have to register your visa, but I am not complaining!). 3:30pm, leave the foreign police, go home, go to sleep, and awake the next morning to go teach.
This is my delightful weekend!
