Today was our first day touring Prague. We looked at the Jewish center (the old ghetto), the old town including Old square, Wenceslas square, and Republic square. The main city is split into old and new town, the new town is a a mere 700 years old. PSH. And there is still a delineation, but luckily the moat is gone, that would have been awkward with the invention of, I don't know, the carriage...
We also started taking Czech classes today. I feel like I'm secretly cheating because I know the Russian, which is similar in vocabulary and almost identical in grammar. So far it's coming quickly because of that, but it's very hard to write, I keep slipping into cyrillic (there is a phrase I never thought I'd say...)! Our teacher is very enthusiastic, speaks English well and really seems like a very nice woman.
For dinner, the university took us out to a nice German restaurant off of Wenceslas square. The portions ended up being HUGE and I know have about a jar and a half of red cabbage in my mini fridge in the dorm. Yum! I'll try to get some pictures up tomorrow, I have some great ones of the old town buildings, almost all my pictures are of architecture!
Don't get used to this posting everyday thing....I'm so tired from walking and learning. Ug.
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Emily
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One of the wives here is Czech and she very impressed by my ability to read a Czech picture book. Totally not cheating.
ReplyDeleteI just remembered - when I was in Prague in 2003 I found a Soviet style cafeteria/restaurant in the old town not too far off from the square. It was called Russian Kitchen and was good practice for my incredibly rusty Russian food vocab. Complete with angry babushki.
wow, you covered a lot of ground! And about a thousand years of history, apparently. Glad the Russian is helping you with the language--anything that helps is a plus, right?? And how was the pivo??? love you--mom
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