Jan Hus

The girl from Canada left the hostel early. She was wearing a shirt that matched her eyes. I was honestly not aware of the colors of her eyes but since she said they matched her shirt, I suppose they're green. Nice eye color, but so are all the shades of blue and grey and brown. I'm not discriminating.
She returned short after because she realized that she had been dressed a little too optimisticly and had to put on a coat. It tends to be cold here in Prague in the morning in May but it warms up during the day and can become pretty hot so if you wear a coat when you go out in the morning, bring a bag so you can take it off if and when it becomes hot, or else you will either melt or you will have to carry it in your hand all day. I personally hardly ever check the forecast but that would be a smart thing to do before you leave the house too.

I stayed up till 2 o'clock writing and  conversating with this very interesting guy from New York who tends to talk a lot. Imagine this, I talk a lot but he talks even more!
I really like to hear what he has to say and I like to be able to remember it. Since my brain was already  tired of all the information I had to process during the day yesterday night, I told him that it was better if he would not talk too much because it would go in through one ear and go out though the other and that would have been a shame. He understood and it was really nice that he understood. We continued our conversation this morning.

The girl from Canada did not stay up with us in the living room but went to her room to read a book about communism, if I'm not mistaken. It's not something I would ever read but I was very impressed. This morning she set out with the goal to find the grave of the guy who protested against communism here in Prague by eventually setting himself on fire. She would visit some cemeteries with the goal to find his grave. I've visited only one graveyard but I couldn't recall if his grave was there so I could not give her any helpful advice. I could only wish her good luck on her grave hunt.

His name was Jan Palach. He was a 21 year old student who set himself on fire in protest against the occupation of Czech- Slovakia by the Warschau pact troops, but that's another story to tell. I wanted to tell you about another Jan but I did not realize they were both named Jan and I mistakenly thought they were one and the same guy. Sometimes I tend the mix up information but now that I've got that straighted out again I will continue telling you sbout Jan Hus, who I find more interesting than Jan Palach, eventhough he did not set himself on fire (others did that for him).

Jan Palach

So who was this Jan Hus (Johannes Hus) , you might wonder, or not but I will tell you any way.
Jan Hus was a guy who lived way way back in time and who had a lot of influence on the civilians in the time the Catholic church ruled. Back then the Catholic church had all the power but Jan Hus was critical about the way the Catholic Church operated.
He was critical about for example the fact that they only preached in Latin and he was critical about the way they made their money.  We all know how the catholic church used to make money. They had several ways to make money. One of them is that the church would let people pay after commiting a sin, for example murder and that way they would be repented of their sins. Sometimes you could even pay in advance and get like a murder free pass.
This Jan Hus was a really smart guy and people tend to hate on smart people. The church hated Jan Hus. He was a threath and had to die.
Some counselors decided to throw him in jail, so they did and after that, they burned him alive. The ironic and sad thing is that they used his own manuscripts to get the fire going.

Jan Hus was a man who wrote down the truth. The truth burned with him but is story is still told and was told to me aad here I am writing it down for all of you to read. His lasts words when he was burned were: 'Pravda vítězí ', which means: 'The truth will always win.'

Johannes Hus