My Excellent Life

Hey Everybody!

 I've been in Prague for a week and a half now and things are pretty spectacular. I'm living in an unbelievable apartment which overlooks the Vltava river and Vysehrad. My school is located within Vysehrad which is an 1100 year old walled fortress set on a massive hill over looking the river. I have to climb a series of treacherous steps in order to get to the top each day, but the view over the river and the rest of Prague to the north are well worth the sweat and the death feeling inside my chest.

  Everybody here is really serious about their pork and beer. Nearly everything is made out of some combination of pork, cheese, and potatoes and beer is far cheaper than water in a restaurant. I haven't yet partaken of the pork, but everything else is dangerously good. On Friday night I went to a club that holds a weekly 80's, 90's night with a lot of people from my program. Things were pretty funny already, but when 500 czechs were singing all the words to the never ending story theme song and dancing along with the giant  Falkor projected on the wall I really thought I was going to die.

  I started intensive Czech classes this week, which I will have for 4 hours every day for the next two weeks. Its pretty exhausting, but I feel like I've already learned a lot of useful stuff. It helps that my teacher is so excited that she usually can't sit down.

  Most of the pictures are taken in Vysehrad including a few from a cemetary where most famous Czechs take their final rest. The others are at Prague Zoo which is a huge an incredible place. Hopefully I'll get over not really knowing how to use my camera and post more soon.