First Day of School

*my school and the dreaded steps I have to climb everyday.


So all of you back in America are at school right now...

and I'm done with my first day, which was crazy, and am dead tired.

It really is a lot more exhausting to go to classes in which you don't speak the language than one would expect, however the people are friendly and try and converse with me in English as best as they can, and I add in the few words in Czech I know every now and then

ano (yes) I say

or

prosim ( please)

or perhaps I utter

de kay ( thanks)

or na sheldanou ( goodbye)

but I try and add in what i can, and it works as best as it could with the little I know.

So weird occurence. or maybe it's just me that thinks its weird. But I met the other American at school today, and she is from Pennsylvania and graduated this year, and we were talking and I was like, " so are you going to college next year?"

and do you know what she said????? HUH?????DO YOU?????? She told me that yes, she was going to NYU. that she had been accepted this year and simply defered her acceptance and will be attending next year.

How weird right? AM I RIGHT? Out of all the cities in the Czech Republic why did this girl come to mine, out of the high schools in Ceske Budejovice why is she going to mine, and out of all the colleges to go to in the States, how is it she is going to the one that I want to be accepted into to?

HUH? tell me that isn't weird, that, that isn't some sort of sign. So maybe you don't believe in signs, but I believe in them and I'm telling you right now that is a sign if I've ever seen one..

So basically school here feels like college...I sort of feel like I'm sitting in on classes at NYU once again, although this time I'm not understanding anything.

But basically they gave me a master schedule of all the classes I can choose from for my grade and I get to just go to whatever one's I feel like this week, and then i just decide which one's I want to take.

Today I took Czech Literture, English which was taught in Czech, so all the directions were in Czech, so basically it wasn't any easier for me than any of the other classes. Then I had ethics, but the teacher didn't show up so we visted all class period, and then math, and physics.

Tomorrow I believe I have P.E., Psychology, Chemistry, Biology, Religion, and possibly French. I will be taking french, I just haven't figured out when or where, which again should be interesting since they will be teaching French in Czech.

After school, which today got out at 1:30, the time I get out will depend on how many classes I take each day, it will vary, Martina and I went and bought her dad a gift because yesterday was his birthday.

Oh and I forgot yesterday I went to my first European grocery store, Kaufland. European grocery stores are pretty neat, and their pasteries mmmmm....are to die for. Beer is also super super cheap.

Which reminds me, my host mom cracks me up, we were talking about drinking and she told me that I couldn't be falling down or puking....haha just the way she said it, it was pretty funny.

My host mom and I were supposed to go to aerobics class tonight, but it got canceled for some reason, so we will go on Thursday, she is awfully excited about this because Martina she claims is lazy and won't go with her.

Hope everyone's first day went well,
that you arn't bogged down with homework quite yet, because I don't believe I'll be having homework all year, and frankly I don't care. haha

Reporting live from the Holiday House
Ceske Budjovice
Czech Republic