Live from Heathrow, I gleefully just bought a Diet Coke and fresh fruit and used English in public. Y’all, I do not know if I could stand being in a foregin country for more than 10 days. That could derive from my sickness, but my rare illnesses tend to foreshadow agony and despair. Exhibit A: The first two times I went to UVA, I probably had a fever, and look what a bullet I have dodged by not going there.
Anyway, these are a few of my favorite shots from Prague containing a. people, and b. were either shot from the hip, or were hot reflexes at work.
I was trying to get a shot of…her from the front, but my Rebel decided that was the opportune moment to Error 99 me into woe, so I whipped around once the street cleared out, next to this French guy with a DSLR and got the mannequin and this couple. Mystery: Where is the guy who dragged the mannequin out there?
So, sorry about not really posting photographs as frequently as I’d hoped. Here are some photos of some of the speakers we’ve heard and of some of the places we’ve been.
President Obama's gift to President Havel
CJ taking notes in President Havel's offices
Jan Marian, Executive Director of the International Association of Civic Belarus - "Perspectives of Civil Society in Belarus"
Oldrich Cerny, Executive Director of PSSI - "Integration of the Czech Republic into Western Security Structures"
Jiri Schneider, Program Director of PSSI - "Czech Relations with EU, NATO"
Charles Blaha, Political and Economic Counselor at the United States Embassy - "Czech-EU-American Relations"
Radek Spicar, Head of External Communication for Skoda Auto - "Czech Business Climate"
Jan Urban, Professor of Journalism at NYU Prague - "Journalism in Central and Eastern Europe"
Tomas Pojar, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic - "Czech Foreign Policy and US-Czech Relations: The Czech Perspective"
Dinah Spritzer, American Journalist based in Prague - "Life as a Foreign Correspondent"
GSJC Tours the Czech Senate
This isn’t the tranniest thing we’ve seen this week…but maybe second place.
From our tour last Sunday, in Old Town Square:
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And while I’m at it, an homage to two of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in Prague so far:
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1) Plums marinated in plum liqueur and wrapped in bacon.
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2) Budvar Dark.
Both, perhaps not coincidentally, from U Medvidku.
After a long day’s travel, GSJC has reached Prague!
Andel's Hotel - home away from home
Jonathon Karl, ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent - CN Alumni & Friends Reception Keynote Speaker
Jiri Ellinger, Embassy of the Czech Republic
Dr. James Carafano, National Security Analyst at The Heritage Foundation - "33 Minutes - Protecting America in the New Missile Age"
Walter H. Pincus, Washington Post (Intelligence, CIA, and National Security) - "National Security from a Reporter's Point of View"
"Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at The Cato Institute - "Defending the American Republic in an Unruly World: Rethinking Conservative Foreign Policy"
Roger W. Robinson, Fellow at Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and President and CEO of Conflict Securities Advisory Group, Inc. - "Global Security Risk and the Markets"
Check out the slideshow in the sidebar to the right for live images being uploaded regularly. (Once you click play, move the mouse off the image to make the controls disappear. Otherwise they cover up a lot of the pictures.) You can also see them on our Flickr photostream.
Also, expect pretty non-camera-phone images to be uploaded now and then from John Stevenson, our photo journalist attending GSJC.
