2. Dva plus Dva je čtyři (2+2=4)

I know it may seem like we don’t have any classes, due to all my fun pictures on Facebook, but we actual do have studies. Monday-Thursday we attend class from 3-7:15. And on Fridays we have class from 11-1:30. Our first class is a lecture class, which usually consists of guest speakers. We have covered various topics, from the Czech System of Government and Politics to Islam in Europe. We usually all take notes and just listen for that hour and a half. Our guest speakers are all mostly native Czechs, so they have a little accent, but they are still understood very well. Our next class is Czech language although it was tough at first, it is slowly getting better. Currently we are learning how to conjugate verbs, and the correct uses of masculine, feminine, and neutral nouns. Our teacher, KP, is very patient with us and we all enjoy her. For our next lecture we either have Martin Ebel or Jan Stejskal give us our lecture. Those two are our main instructors and they also take turns going on field trips with our group. So far we have taken three field trips and have two left to take.

On Fridays we watch educational and historical movies. This last Friday we watched “The Cremator”, and it was about a man who had been called to serve for Hitler, he was going to be the head master of the mass cremation. He was married to a half Jewish woman, making his two children a quarter Jewish. He knew he couldn't work for Hitler if he had any Jewish connections, so he set out to kill them. It was a very disturbing movie to watch.

Our three classes are all in the same building, in the same room. That makes it nice, so we don’t have to try to navigate around the large campus. There are a lot of other students around our building also. Native Czech students can go to any Czech Republic school and not have to pay for it, which makes me jealous. We have 13 class days left, and 36 days left here in Europe. Time has flown by here, and I can’t believe we only have five weeks left!