Here it is, my first installment of my czech experience. So having arrived about three days ago to an airport not telling me clearly how to get to prague, after getting a few buses and following people with big bags assuming that they were going to the same place as me, I finally arrived in my room. I share with a friendly, but a little too chatty and questioning Polish girl. She is a good room mate, clean and private, I think there is a lot more yet to discover. I'm coping, but as I said, its only been three days. I have had two days of czech lessons... WOW, what have a let myself in for. Having minimal Polish has proved not as helpful as I would have hoped. But everyone seems to be a beginner, so I am not alone, and definitley not the worst. The Finnish and Portuguese accents do not translate to the czech pronunciation very well at all, makes for some amusing moments.
I am staying on a very large and grand campus on the out skirts of Prague. It is only a short bus ride to the metro, but it feels like we are out in the middle of no where. Saying that, we are finding more and more evidence of life the longer we are here. But as you can imagine any univerisity campus in the summer is a pretty desolate. However everyone on the course seems nice and our corridor is a fun place to be, very european, most EU countries are represented. And everyone is speaking English, a strange sensation. I feel a little guilty that I am lucky enough to not think about English as well as Czech (all our classes are taught in czech), but sometimes I get a little tired not being able to talk English like I would with fellow brits. Not worrying about other peoples comprehension is something that I have always taken for granted.
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Wahey Marish! What an installment. It had everything I was hoping for: excitement from the journey in; comedy from the Portugese and suspence, as whatever will happen next on your amazing experience? This must be the best blog on the internet, admittedly the only one I read, but the best nonetheless!
Dearest Marysia
What an experience you are having. I'm not surprised that you are shell shocked. It's quite a lot to take in, but at least you have travelled a lot and have encountered a range of languages which will increase your confidence! As everyone is in the same boat you can help eachother out. What is it like living in Prague? I can't wait to visit. I shall book up the flights around September so you can fill me in on the details later. When are you coming back to London? Missing you already...
Love mumxxx
Go you Marish! It does all sound like a bit of an experience. Is it easier than learning Spanish? And how many languages are you actually going to be able to speak once you've nailed Czech??
Hope you're having fun,
Rob.
Dear Marish,
Go to your hotmail. I have left you a long message there as you don't have a paste button on this window?
Love mumxxx
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