Tonight Michelle and I went to a Czech rock concert, sort of, and experienced Czech culture, best we could. A local radio station announced that 18,000 tickets had been sold so far for the Kabat concert, a famous Czech rock band that's been around since the early 80s. This number didn't include the crowds of people standing outside of the stadium that didn't pay 350 ($18) crowns to get in. This group included ourselves. Considering that the town has a population of about 100,000 this is pretty huge. We couldn't understand any of the lyrics of course, but upon consideration, we can't understand most English hard rock lyrics. I also got to experience a mildly poisonous plant this evening. My fears of widespread poison oak and a week of itchy rashes were calmed when I was told that I must have stumbled into a plant similar to the marijuana plant except that it's not a drug and stings for a few hours. "You'll be fine in the morning." This said after our supervisor hit me with one of the plants to see if that was the same stinging sensation I was experiencing. Itching put aside, the night was very entertaining, and I can now say that I'm a tried and true fan of Czech head-banging good times rock and roll.
We're going tick hunting on Thursday, and then our experiments can finally get on their way.
2 comments:
woooo, rave on! Looks like it was really fun. I can't imagine anywhere in Ceske Budejovice that would hold that many people! Hope the hives settle down soon. CB
It was at some sort of stadium between "jihoceska univerzita" and the river. Hives are all better. I can't believe my coworker intentionally gave me hives. The plant apparently helps with bee stings though. Tick collecting today was hilarious. Michelle and I got about 40 ticks between us though. Now I can finally test my feeders!!
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