Beautiful, Uphill City

I am beginning to think that absolutely everything in Prague is uphill. A la living in a city that sits in the bottom of a basin. While this can cause your feet to spontaneously hate you, it also creates the most beautiful views I have ever seen. The gorgeous orange roof tops, random castle turrets and towers straining to the sky, church spires climbing above the houses, and dots of green trees everywhere. For a city, there are a great many parks and green spaces where there are always people, especially at lunch time and right after work.

The negatives:
I have blisters (oops no band aids on and new flats)
My feet hurt (1 1/2 hr walk home)
It's hotter than hell (still only 80 but the humidity is climbing)
My apartment tried to kill me last night (huzzah blown fuses!)

The positives:
It's stunningly gorgeous
Even when the streets don't make sense and have 5,000 letters they end up making sense and are super clearly labeled
I manage to make list directions and avoid looking like an idiot who has a giant map
I can at least say Dorby Den and take a stab at pronouncing the road if I get more lost
The landlady's son fixed the power, though we have one broken outle t
It's really pretty

See?!

The Municipal Building, an opera house

So, I am here for a class...so what am I doing in that? After two full days I can concur that it's intensive and that I will be severely hooked on coffee thanks to our two coffee breaks and the only instant coffee I have ever liked, thank you Czech coffee company (I am clearly buying this before I leave). We have had two Czech lessons that we then used to talk about techniques in teaching language. Today was lesson planning and I saw a lot of similarities to SED [Say it with me: Students will be able to...] and have spent most of the past two days going that's how I learnt Spanish!! Knowing that Jeremy knows what he's talking about and is stressing backwards design makes me happy. It's fun to see the differences in teaching new language! I'm enjoying it a lot.

It is just me, a Californian girl, Adrian, and a Finnish woman, Sari, in this session. Thankfully they're both very pleasant and we seem to be getting on well. We have coffee and eat our lunch with the to die for view on my Tumblr from Sunday in Letna park. While we are all super tired after class, we make it through! haha.

I am looking forward to observing tomorrow and everything else that comes next! Now off to attempt to cook again without the kitchen trying to set me on fire...

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As they say in Praha, nashledanou (good-bye)!

Fallon