Czech School

I got up extra early this morning for my first real day of classes, and still somehow managed to just barely get there during attendance. I ended up taking the subway, transferring, and getting off at a stop before realising that I was at the wrong station and would need to hop back on the metro, make yet another transfer, and then take a bus to the school. How confusing! I later discovered that there is a tram that goes a block away from our apartment that also passes right by the school, and man do I feel foolish. The metro network is nice, but nothing really beats the trams for getting around the city. Sure, they're slower and at the whims of traffic, but it's nice to be able to look out the window and see all the gorgeous buildings passing by.

Class was interesting, to say the least. The teacher took ten minute breaks every 50 minutes, and was far more enthusiastic about his plans for next week than the topic at hand (Globalisation and its Economic Aspects, if you were wondering). He actually wants to hold the second half of the class up at his cottage in the mountains north of here in Rokytnice nad Jizerou. And it sounds like that's what's going to happen. It definitely has the potential to be fun, although I haven't really made up my mind yet whether or not to go. We'll see tomorrow.

We're still exploring the city, and there is always something amazing around every corner. This afternoon after I finished class we wandered in Zizkov for a while and stumbled on this vintage stored owned by an English expat. She had a bunch of cool stuff, and it was interesting to talk to her about stuff. She gave us some suggestions on places to visit in town and a map of neat places, which we will have to Czech out at some later point. And blague about.