It's Sunday in Prague! Time has flown by quickly, I didn't realize it's been over a week since my last real blog. I'm sitting on my bed listening to music and eating my new favorite treat, nutella and pretzels. I've been lazy today because I went to my first discoteque last night and came home at 5am! The dancing at clubs doesn't get going until 2am or so. The place we went is called Termix and me and my neighbor danced all night long to Abba, Justin, and the Grease medley.

So last week I began class at the Anglo-American University, which everyone has deemed to be Prague's community college. My schedule is as follows:

Tuesday
9:30-11:15am Czech 101
2:45-6:00pm European Film Seminar
Wednesday
9:30-11:15am Czech 101
11:30am-2:15pm Gender Equality in Europe
Thursday
11:30am-2:15pm Prague Art and Architecture

I'll write more about my classes once we get deeper into the subjects. The first week was mostly intro info.

Tuesday, Feb. 10 was a very rainy day but I still wanted to walk home from school. I walked across Charles Bridge, along the Valta River, and I stopped at an English bookstore called The Globe to get some tea for the chilly walk home. Wednesday was a snowy day. All most all of the kids are from Wisconsin or other snow cities so I was made fun of a bit for my fascination with the snow. It's just so pretty! I thought that a cold snowy day would be good for a look at the Old Jewish Cemetery in the Jewish Quarter, which is north of Old Town Square. As about.com states, "The Old Jewish Cemetery was created in the 15th century when Jews were forbidden to bury their dead outside their own district. Space was scarce, so bodies were buried on top of each other in an estimated 12 layers. Over the centuries, lopsided tombstones formed unruly, poetic groupings." and Rick Steves says that there are over 9,000 gravestones there. It was very serene inside the cemetery. I took this picture real quick, because I wasn't sure if I was allowed to or not.

Later Wednesday night, I went back to The Globe with some of my roommates for snacks and drinks and I had delicious spinach artichoke dip. Then me and my room roommate Kelly went to a bar called U Sudo, which looks like a normal bar from the outside, but actually is made up of descending cavern-like rooms that go underground. We drank pivos and discussed travel plans, and we were surrounded by young Czechs who kept breaking into song. The whole bar seemed to be singing at one point. I can't wait to learn the words! On the way home, we got fried cheese sandwiches, called smažený sýr, which tasted absolutely delicious after a few Pilsners.

Yesterday I made a successful trek to LaundryLand to do a couple loads of laundry. I was nervous because I had read online that the people that work there can be mean to Americans, but the lady that worked at the one I went to was perfectly nice. She was even kind enough to tell me that my Czech bottle of soap was in fact not soap, but fabric softener.

I'm off to a show! I'll write more soon. <3