Gahh Prague is so amazing. The flight over Friday night/Saturday was really uneventful, I don't have much to write about that. The most interesting part was probably that I watched Avatar in it's entirety for the first time ever on the flight to London, so that took up a portion of my time. But basically I flew by myself from DC to London, and then took a group flight from London to Prague, so I got to meet a bunch of people in my program. Then we took a bus from the airport to our apartments where we met our resident director and his assistant student director. Our apartment building is so cool! It's above this restaurant called Pivovarsky Klub (pivo = beer in Czech) that has like 250 different beers to choose from on their menu, it's amazing. First off, the stairs are twisty, which I think is so cool, and there's so much room, the ceilings are super high and the rooms are ginormous, totally not what I was expecting. But anyway, last night we walked to dinner then took a little walking tour of the city center, and then basically the whole group when to this huge, multi-floor dance club called Lucerna where they play 80s and 90s American music (complete with music videos) and everybody dances like crazy and has a fantastic time. So much fun. And then I came back and promptly fell asleep because I didn't sleep much on the plane.
So today we woke up and met underneath the horse's tail for orientation. There's this statue of Good King Wenceslas riding a horse in one of the main squares of town, and so our meeting point was underneath that horse. Then we had a super boring orientation at the school and stuff, but afterwards we went shopping at this absolutely huge Tesco, which is basically like an oversized Target. There's a supermarket in the basement and then 5 floors of everything you ever wanted to buy... ever. So we came back, I finished unpacking, we went to this pizza/pasta shop down the street for dinner, I hung out with a few new friends, and now I'm back here, typing this and getting ready for classes to start tomorrow (totally not prepared for this at all). I'm slowly but surely finding my way around the city and learning how to navigate the metro, tram, and bus systems, and the people here are actually really helpful. Most of them speak English, but even those that don't try to help when they can (commence the Charades playing), and it's been quite the adventure figuring everything out.
It still hasn't hit me yet that I'm here for the next four months, though. I feel like I'm just here to visit for the week or something, and even though I'm pretty much unpacked now, I don't think it'll hit me for a couple more weeks. I'm having such a great time already though (and it's only the second day!) that I really don't foresee myself having any problems living here for the next fews. Bring it, Praha.
Anyways, sorry for the ridiculously long post about basically nothing (just boring travel details...), but I just feel like I need to document everything so I can go back later and reread everything once I'm home and look back on all the memories. :) Pictures to come soon!
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