collegeI don't have much time to write right now, but figured I'd post some sort of update on how things are going.
It's 8:00am on Monday morning here, which means its 11:00pm Sunday night back in California. the time change is 9hours. So far it hasn't been too bad, but I haven't slept well the last couple nights as part of the adjustment. I did sleep better last night than the night before, so its coming along. I still feel very tired.
Today begins our two week intensive Czech language course. I'm excited to actually learn something and better communicate with the people here. I feel like such an ass going in somewhere and just hoping the people there speak English. While its true that most people here do speak English, its not very good.
So far Prague seems to be more similar to the US than different. I remember when I went to Japan, I started noticing things immediately. Even the plants were different there, things i'd neer seen before! Here there are many similar trees to the ones in the US (particularly California). There are some differences I've noticed so far, though. For example, "the toilet" and "bathroom" are not the same thing here. Someone had told me that in the past many years ago that that's how it is here in Europe, but I forgot about it until one of the guys from the program and our landlord where showing us our apartment and the bathroom only has a tub and a sink. The toilet is in a completely separate room with just a toilet and a sink, and in our apartment a washing machine, too, but no dryer so everything has to be air dried.
There are two buildings that we've all been put into and most of the people here live in the other building. In my building there are seven of us right now and another person is coming Wednesday. There are four people to each apartment with two people in each room. So far its working. I was worried because I'm so used to living alone and being independent, but one of my roomies is like that, too, and so far they all seem cool. Hopefully this'll work.
That's it for now, its 8:09am and we're leaving with the girls downstairs at 8:15 to give us time to find the tram stop that will take us to school. I know that five of us have class at 9:00 but I don't know if we all do. Also, there are two rooms and the girls in the other room have class at 2pm next week. odd.
It's 8:00am on Monday morning here, which means its 11:00pm Sunday night back in California. the time change is 9hours. So far it hasn't been too bad, but I haven't slept well the last couple nights as part of the adjustment. I did sleep better last night than the night before, so its coming along. I still feel very tired.
Today begins our two week intensive Czech language course. I'm excited to actually learn something and better communicate with the people here. I feel like such an ass going in somewhere and just hoping the people there speak English. While its true that most people here do speak English, its not very good.
So far Prague seems to be more similar to the US than different. I remember when I went to Japan, I started noticing things immediately. Even the plants were different there, things i'd neer seen before! Here there are many similar trees to the ones in the US (particularly California). There are some differences I've noticed so far, though. For example, "the toilet" and "bathroom" are not the same thing here. Someone had told me that in the past many years ago that that's how it is here in Europe, but I forgot about it until one of the guys from the program and our landlord where showing us our apartment and the bathroom only has a tub and a sink. The toilet is in a completely separate room with just a toilet and a sink, and in our apartment a washing machine, too, but no dryer so everything has to be air dried.
There are two buildings that we've all been put into and most of the people here live in the other building. In my building there are seven of us right now and another person is coming Wednesday. There are four people to each apartment with two people in each room. So far its working. I was worried because I'm so used to living alone and being independent, but one of my roomies is like that, too, and so far they all seem cool. Hopefully this'll work.
That's it for now, its 8:09am and we're leaving with the girls downstairs at 8:15 to give us time to find the tram stop that will take us to school. I know that five of us have class at 9:00 but I don't know if we all do. Also, there are two rooms and the girls in the other room have class at 2pm next week. odd.
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