Prague: Day Tri

Im finally getting over the jetlag and starting to really enjoy Prague. Yesterday we had orientation, got to know a little bit about the city and some basic language skills and such. Im starting to really get to know the people in my group. There are mostly northwesterner with four guys from UNC, a guy from Bowdoin and a girl who goes to Madison. We went out to lunch with a program TA and then had some free time (aka a nap) in the noontime. I ate some pretty decent Czech fair, they like the dumplings and big pieces of meat (cabbage too, but im not really a fan). The service is ridiculously bad everywhere and thats just expected; people seem angry that you want to buy stuff from them and will try to rip you off. Then our professors took us out to a nice dinner during which the wine was on the house, a little social lubricant for those who chose to indulge and then a bunch of people went out to clubs afterwards and got a lil bit out of hand (aka they all had massive hangovers for 9 am class this morning). I had my first history class today and it was pretty cool, we had an hour lecture then went out to see this place called Vsyehrad where the Czech king ruled for a couple of hundred years (the statue of St. Wenceslas, the Czech patron saint, below was found there). People are starting to get more open too, talking about things other than the booze (i swear, if i hear another conversation about the varieties of absinth i WILL take my own life) and I'm really figuring my way around the city center where our dorm/hostel/hotel is. Theres a big square nearby with lots of stuff to do, tons of places to eat and the like, and i found a gym (shady down like three stories underground, just like dear old patton) close bye. I still have no idea what the street names are, Czech is literally bordering on unpronounceable. For example the Czech word for three in my title phonetically works out to about tchshkee, its a mess. Well anyways its one am and time for bed . . .

Notice: Due to a little thing called time zones, i will be going to sleep, eating breakfast etc. at different times, so if you see an away message such as "afternoon nap" at 8 am, just add 7 for all of you in the central time zone and itll all make sense (Drew and Raj)