I'll start with school. Basically school is school, I'm taking WWII, Czech language, Communism vs. Religion, and Art and Architecture.We have class Monday-Thursday and classes are either two times a week, a one hour class and then a two hour class, or once a weeks, three hours all at once. It would be hard to sit through a three hour class at home where I can understand my teacher so being here and trying to sit through one that is three hours long with a professor that has an accent and can't completely understand what your questions are is extremly difficult but I'm sure after a couple weeks it will be easier to understand them. Also, the class sizes are extremly small my largest class probably has 16ish people and the smallest is 4 people.
After our first week of classes Cassi and I went to Bratislava Slovakia with some of our friends in the program. They had planned the trip and we decided it would be fun to go and get out Prague since it was a cheap trip and neither of us knew anyone who had been we thought it would be fun. Although the company was great the trip was not exactly a success. Basically, atleast during the winter, there isn't really much to do in Bratislava. We were supposed to stay Friday - Sunday but it was so cold and boring that we bought a bus ticket home for Saturday afternoon. I know it sounds pathetic but trust me it isn't fun to walk around in 15 degree weather with high winds and only a days worth of things to see.
Even though we came home early there was atleast one thing I really liked about Slovakia and that was...
the FOOD!!!! I didn't eat a bad meal while I was there and it was pretty cheap. The Slovak Pub (see picture below) was the first place we ate, our hostel suggested it to us, and for a bread bowl w/soup and fries it was only 3 Euro and tasted so good!
The picture below is just of one of the main squares, they had an ice skating rink up for the winter time and it looked like fun but I don't know how anyone was enjoying themself with the freezing weather.
Randomly placed under a walkway was this circular thing which was really cool after I found out what it was. In the middle is a compass and along the outside ring are major cities and how far it is to them.
HOME!
Around the city they had a bunch of different statues randomly placed. We went on a free guided tour and our tour guide told us what this guy was there for but all I remember about him is that his head has been knocked off a couple of times so to prevent that from happening again they put up a sign next to him which just had a picture of the statue on it, I don't really know if it will help but the guide seemed to think that the sign would definitely prevent him from any future decapitation.
Cassi and I did not finish the free guided tour because it was ridiculously cold and I had a terrible cough, which has presisted, so we decided it was best to break away from the tour and we spent about 2 hours in a cafe. When we went back to the hostel we met back up with our friends and by that time it was just about time for us to pack up and head back home thankfully.
Since we came home early Cassi, Trevor, and I decided we wanted to try and make chocolate chip cookies on Sunday. We went to the store and bought what we thought were all the right ingrediants but when we got home we found out that the brown sugar we had bought was actually wheat flower so we ran to a potraviny (grocery store) and bought what we once again thought was brown sugar. When we got back to the apartment we realized it wasn't but decided we would try it anyway because even though that seemed like an obstical our biggest challange was actually the fact that we didn't have any measuring cups. Due to all of the complications we had we still managed to make the cookie dough though and bake it.
The recipe called for 3 cups of flour and the only thing we had close to a measuring cup was a coffee pot and for the rest of the measurements was eyeballed them.
This is just the mixture, before everything was mixed in.
The first sign that there might have been something wrong with our cookies was the dough was too thin to role into balls and have them stay that shape but we ignored that and decided to make a cookie cake.
This is what the "cookie" looked like after just 3 minutes of being in the oven because it was literally boiling, not only until after I skyped with my friend Lisa did it dawn on my that our oven is degrees celcius so we cooked the cookies at over 500 degrees farenheit. We decided that we would let it cool off in the oven and then see what it was like. Luckily even though it looked super nasty it tasted wonderful! We spooned it onto ice cream and it was awesome!
This is what our cookie ended up being used for instead, a delicious topping for our ice cream. So although the cookies were a complete failure they were also kind of a success.
Also last week we finally finished booking all of our trips!!!
Febuary 25-27th - Munich
March 4-6th - Budapest
March 11-13th - Berlin
March 18-21st - Paris
March 25-27th - Brussels
April 15-23rd - Santorini
There is also a trip to Vienna but I can't remember when.
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