Locals

I have officially been in the Czech Republic for a week. I first landed in Prague and missed the other group of people that booked a van ride to the hostel. So after sitting and thinking for a bit I decided to get a head start understanding the public transportation system in the Czech Republic. I asked the information desk at the airport and she gave me a map of busses and trains to take to get to the hostel. Everything ended up going very smoothly I only had to try and communicate to one person to see if I was going the right way to the hostel.

After being in Prague for two days I realized how busy of a city it was. Before coming I could not find any information on the Czech Republic besides the Wikipedia page of how big the cities were. I had learned that in the Czech Republic they listen to American Pop music everywhere. Also at the movie theaters here there are many American movies in English with Czech Subtitles. For two days in Prague we walked around the city and found so many nice little restaurants to eat at. I was surprised with myself because I was nervous about how the Czech food was going to taste but after the first meal I fall in love with it. On Sunday we checked out of our hostel at 10 A.M. and had to wait in the airport for a few hours before everyone else showed up.

My first experience meeting a local Czech person was at check in for our dorms. Jon and I had gone to the wrong building number and a girl was very nice and took us to our dorm and showed us how everything worked. After unpacking we went to Globus which is the Walmart of the Czech Republic. On the way I saw a little restaurant on the side of the road. After getting back to the dorm I went to the little restaurant to get some food to eat. There I saw the same girl from earlier that helped us to our dorms sitting with Billy Yaw. So I sat down and started to learn about her culture.  Her name was “Yid-Kah” and she is from Brno which is about a 1 hour train ride from Olomouc. She talked about her family and schooling. Yidkah knows four different languages which blow my mind. Over the week she helped me with my Czech language class assignments. I am very grateful of getting to know a local.