From Prague Trip |
After we headed back for lunch at the hotel, it was finally time to do the Prague Presentation. Overall I felt our presentation went well, we went a little bit too long and it was fairly boring at some parts, even Davis was nodding off, but we did the best we could with the material we had. My group performed well on making sure to speak slowly and clearly so the LEROS manager could understand us. The LEROS manager was very nice and after commenting on our recommendations he gave us a sample bag of a variety of LEROS teas.
For the most part I felt that the Prague Projects gave some valuable experience of problems that would come up in a real-life business consulting project like vague objectives, hard to find research, stressful deadlines, less than helpful group members, and presentations to the client. However, if we did something wrong it wasn't a big deal, since we couldn't be fired or anything. At the end Dvorsky said that there would likely be internship possibilities to live and work in Prague for a month next summer, and I definitely am interested in doing that.
After a nice nap I headed out with Andrew, Neil, Peter, JJ, and Nate to the Olympia Restaurant again to have a celebratory dinner. Unfortunately, the restaurant was closed down for some re-flooring and so we headed to the nearby restaurant “Stara Praha”. I got a traditional Czech potato soup (“Bramboracka”), beef goulosh (“Hovezi Gulas”) with dumplings, and a dark beer (“Staropramen Tmave”). It was all tasty but not completely filling. After paying our bill we found out from Nate that Neil had been charged for his ketchup and garlic and the box he used to take home his ribs, and since Nate had to pay for it the guy at the counter said “your friend, he screwed you” which was hilarious.
We all got back on the tram towards the train station, but right as Neil was reaching for the pole to hold on to, the tram sprung to life, and Neil was instantly thrown onto the floor and crumpled into a ball. It was absolutely hilarious to see, and all of the Czech people sitting next to us were laughing too.
In the train station we briefly talked with a Bulgarian woman who was visiting Prague with her friend about how Prague was always grey and where we went to clubs. She was fairly fluent in English and had visited Boston and Washington DC in the United States.
The Beer Factory was really neat, in that you sat at a table as a group with a central tap, and each table could compete against other tables to see who could drink the most, and also the bar as a whole could compete against other bars. We played some drinking games and enjoyed the music. A bit after 11pm a huge group of young Czech teens, probably high schoolers, came in and started partying like crazy. They started an almost mini mosh-pit in the center of the floor and there was some crowd surfing. Czech people really know how to party hard.
We headed back to the hotel and then found out that there was a student bar in the basement floor of the hotel. This bar was pretty big, had 2 different areas a pool table and stuff and served pints of beer for only 25 krona (like $1.05 US!?). This was an astonishing discovery and we lamented over the lost opportunities we would have had if we knew this bar existed when we got here. I headed up to bed soon after.
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