School? Oh yeah, you might be wondering if I was ever going to attend that while being here. Well, sadly, the answer is yes.

I signed up to take 15 credits while living here in Prague, and so far, I am happy with that decision. Two of my classes here will be going towards my majors, while the others are going towards different credits I need anyway! I am enrolled in International Management, International Marketing Communications, Intro to Czech language, Culture History of the Czech Lands, and Entrepreneurship and New Business Venture. I think many of them are boring, but hopefully they will get better. My Marketing class and the Entrepreneurship class seem really awesome, so I am excited for those!

My first class is on Monday at 14:30, and it is Intro to Czech. Our professor did not show up, so another lady taught the first half of our class (each class is over 3 hours here, but only once a week). Let me just say, Czech is incredibly difficult to understand, speak, and learn. It was only day one, and I already feel like I am going to be awful at it! Hopefully, our actual teacher is much easier to learn from! The best part of Monday was that after my class, I went out to a pizza place in the town square with Sam, Kate, and Sidney, and ate gelato for dinner, and it was the best decision involving food that I have made since coming here.

Every Tuesday night, we have our Nation to Nation parties at a club in Prague, which is the one we have access to since we already bought a card to get in. Those are always fun, but I ended up sleeping in until 9 am on Wednesday and was 20 minutes late to my class (sorry Dad, I know you are probably not happy reading that). Luckily, I did not miss anything important or really anything at all, and also made it in time to sign my name on the attendance sheet (which means that it does not count towards the four excusable absences – whoohoo). It was also snowing on Tuesday, which was so beautiful! My professor thinks it will be the last snowfall of the year and said it was the third time it snowed this winter. That was weird for me to hear, being from Colorado and expecting that May snowstorm to randomly come!

The rest of the week went a lot like the first two days, just going to class and then we would get home and go out somewhere. I have been having so much fun here and love my friends and where I am living. Sometimes it is hard to remember that we have school on top of everything!

On Fridays, we aren’t allowed to have class (this is not a joke), so we went with our program today to a Czech Museum about the history of communism here, and it was extremely interesting! It was called the Museum of Communism. The Czech people have been through so much, and it was a good way for us to learn about it all. Our program managers were telling us about how their families had their farms taken from them, and some had Grandparents that were sent to prison for refusing to be a part of the communist party! It was a very interesting day.

EXCITING NEWS: Taylor, my roommate/friend/soulmate, and I have booked our trips for the next three weeks, and we are going to Germany tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016), Paris next weekend (Feb 26-29), and then Brussels and Amsterdam the weekend after that (March 3-7th)! Then the weekend after that, we have a trip with our program to Berlin! So every weekend for a month, we will get to explore different cities and cultures! I am looking forward to traveling with her 🙂

Paris: I am looking forward to traveling to Paris because our best friends here are mainly all French, besides Zach! Our French friends have been so wonderful to Taylor, Margaret, Zach, and me (the dorm kids from our program). François, Félix, and Sassi all live in the dorms and have been nothing but amazing! Zach lives with two of them, and then Félix lives down the hall in the same building. They have introduced us to even more people, and their group of friends now feels like family, and the French girls are especially SO KIND to us. I wish I could describe how nice they have all been, but I am sure you can imagine they are extremely great! I honestly feel incredibly blessed to have met them and get to know them like we do.

So far, I am traveling all over, making all different types of friends, and eating a lot of food! I guess you could say that I am extremely happy right now!