living in Kladno

Location, location, location...
So, I live in Kladno, Czech Republic (map below). Kladno is around a 30 minute drive from western Prague (follow the blue arrows). I live in a flat with Mechy, a girl on the team (the red dot in the lower right of the map below).












I live in the building below, on the fourth floor. The first floor isn't residential, so it doesn't count, so in the elevator I press 3 to get to my floor. The flats are labeled with people's names as well as the room number, and in some flats they've gotten rid of the numbers altogether, I think in an effort to personalize living.



















Autobus:
To get around Kladno I ride the "autobus." The bus system has many lines with many stops (on the pdf on the previous link the numbers are the bus lines, and circles and half circles are the stops. I live at the Prazka krnz (Praha station) intersection, one of the only four way right intersections on the map). They run earlier than I usually wake up and later than I stay up, so I have no problems getting around. The hockey arena (the orange dot in the yellow circle on the map above) is about a 20 minute ride away, and the Kladno centre (in the red circle on the map above) is about a 15 minute ride away.

The first day I rode the bus by myself I stayed on too long, because I thought that there was no way that I was already at the stop. (I had a similar thoughts in Prague, that the city was very dense.) In Kladno, I walked by this church and around this hospital more than I needed to:




















The church (above) and hospital (Czech, nemocnice, below).















I don't know how state of the art the hospital is, but it is beautiful.

(E.T.) Phone home
I use internet to communicate to Alaska. I have internet access for my laptop during the day using something like a router that plugs into a USB port. I have occasional wireless in the flat, most likely from a neighbor. Its nice when I have it, but intermittent wireless is almost worse than not having wireless at all, since it can't be counted on. I have a skype account, let me know if you want to add me! (Dad and Diana, you should set up your skype account.) I am also accepting donations for skype credit so that I can call American phone numbers.