A Few First Impressions

Dobre Den! I've been here in Brno for a few days now, unfortunately I've been without internet in my room until now. I finally have time to fill you all in on a few observations I've made about the Czech so far.

1. The Czechs are a surprisingly attractive bunch of people.

2. KFC either loves the Czech or Czech people love KFC, I'm not quite sure which is which but there are a ton of KFCs everywhere here.

3. Despite my finding out that my original assertion that there are no cognates in the czech language was wrong, I have found that Czech is possibly even harder than I expected.

I've been spending the last few days discovering these and many more interesting aspects of life in Brno, and I'm absolutely loving every minute of it. The program I'm in is amazing and I'm having so much fun with the other people. I've made friends with some pretty awesome Japanese people, I celebrated Lithuanian Independence Day with the lithuanians in the program, and I've even argued with a frenchman about politics. I feel like I've been running nonstop the last few days here trying to get everything taken care of, checking in with the police, buying more insurance, transport passes, registering for classes, going to my intensive czech class which is aptly named, it is intense. I've gotten a hang of the tram system, and after a few flaws with getting on the bus, I've managed that too. So, things are going swimmingly and I'll post again later!

Also, on a slight side note, this may be interesting to those of you who know what a clutz I am, which really should be anyone that's met me. On the tour of Brno today we were walking down the stairs at the tower in the cathedral and I managed to slip, go crashing down a few stairs, knock down a fellow member of my program and generally lose all sense of dignity. I survived and walked it off. So at the very end of the tour I was talking about how I'm such a clutz and I can't walk on ice to save my life. At which point I slipped on one of the patches of ice that line every street of Brno, and land on the same part of my ass I fell on in the tower. Suffice to say, I know have an impressive bruise on my hip/ass/thigh. JCXC, think that picture the volleyball team kept in the locker room. Everyone else, think an awful, very large bruise.

Ahoj!