Prague, Day One

Today was my first full day in Prague! What to say…..lots of things all in one day, and now sitting in my apartment after 2 hours of chatting with the roommate, Helen, and other TEFL student, Martha, I seem to be drawing a blank on what to say. I guess first off I will tell you about the apartment and the roommate. I am staying in Prague 9 up on a big hill…it is a b!%&h to walk up, but super easy to walk down. It is a 2 bedroom with a kitchen and a toilet room and a shower room. It's really nice….I was thinking we would get a little rinky dink place, but it's nice. We are all very excited to get the internet set up properly. My room is nice, twin bed, desk, chair and a wardrobe. I have 2 desk lamps which is nice…and a good way conserve. On wall is all windows and a door that opens up onto a balcony and faces towards the city. This morning it was a beautiful view. My roommate, Helen, has a wonderful Australian accent. Her and I are the same age and we both arrived yesterday which was nice….neither of us were thrilled and the idea of sleeping in the apartment alone.


Helen and I hung out today in the city. We started out at the Galleria near out apartment and the school. It has internet access so we went down and got breakfast and hung out. While we were there I emailed Radek, my Aunt Sherry and Uncle Steve's friend from here, and told him I arrived last night. He asked where I was and I told him and he happened to be driving by so he stopped in and saw us for a few minutes. It was wonderful to see him, and I am hanging out with him tomorrow which will be fun!

Helen and I checked out the super market, that was interesting. It's called BILLA, and everything is in Czech so we rely a lot on pictures. I got my first taste of walking up the hill around 1…Helen and I had 20 minutes to go up, drop off the groceries and get back down the hill to the metro to meet our friend Matthew. We decided that we wont find out what bus goes up to our place yet just so we can work off all the Czech beer we know we will be drinking. We met Matthew at 2 at the metro right near out place. He is another TEFL student. He has been here for 2 weeks so he took us into Old Town and out for a wonderful Czech meal. I got to see the famous clock (totally awesome) and we walked across the Charles Bridge. After had my first Czech beer, Masters (a wonderful dark beer), and we had a wonderful meal: fried cheese (very popular), roast duck, ham, 3 types of dumplings, sausage, sauerkraut and red kraut. All followed by a second Masters….which at 18% I decided was too much and next time to order only one. But in my defense I didn't know it was 18% when I ordered it.

After the wonderfully exhausting walk up to the apartment Helen and I found a new TEFL student who arrived to day, Martha. She lives on the floor below us and came up to hang out with us for the last 2 hours. Now I am totally exhausted, and it's only 9:30.

the roomate, Helen