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!