Prague Journal

Friday, January 07, 2005.

We spent most of the day showing Aditya around Prague, checking out his potential apartment, and inquiring at various shops about phone and internet access possibilities since his apartment doesn’t have a land-phone line. We found out that it is possible to connect his computer via a mobile phone, but the phones are expensive and the various rates (between the three companies Eurotel, T-mobile, and Oskar) are confusing.
Late in the afternoon we decided to head back to our flat, send an e-mail to Aditya’s parents so they would know where he was – and how to reach him by phone tonight and tomorrow, send an e-mail inquiry to another rental agency to see if there were any flats available with phone lines (mostly for Aditya’s computer, but also to avoid having to purchase a mobile phone for the three months he’ll be here), and then go out to dinner close by. Just as we were on our way out the door, Jo called from California. This was a pleasant interruption in our day, since she is such a good friend (and math collaborator for Rick), and it was fun to hear her descriptions of their two-week ski trip at Mammoth with their two young sons. (The punchline is that Stewart had just skied his first black diamond shortly before his 4th birthday.) In our rush – and in our preoccupation with looking for mobile phone explanations in English on the web and inexpensive long-distance rates from the US to Prague – we neglected to light candles before we went to dinner. We did have a leisurely dinner and pleasant conversation, but promptly returned to our internet searches once we returned to our flat. It was only after Rick and Aditya had gone to bed that I remembered it was Shabbat.

posted by JWinn @ 8:50 PM