Just got back from the opera at the National Theatre and it was amazing! We saw La Traviata and it was sooo good. And the theatre is old and beautiful and I can’t wait to go back for Swan Lake next week.
Czech class, on the other hand, is really ridiculously hard. My Czech professor is a very enthusiastic grandma with excellent English, but it doesn’t make learning the hardest Slavic language any easier. There are a few phonemes we don’t have in English, the easiest being a regular rolled R which I couldn’t do in Spanish anyway. And then there is Ř, which I can best describe as r+g+sh with a growl all at the same time. Needless to say I cannot make that sound, which means I cannot say the number 4, direct someone to go up, or put things in my wardrobe…damn. The grammar and structure and everything is so hard too… gah!
Today I also paid for all of my group trips (after a small altercation with a bank employee) so I am officially signed up to go to Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul, Linz, and Salzburg. I might even get to do the Sound of Music tour in Austria!! Plus I’m going to Budapest with my roommate and her parents, and possibly other trips if I can afford them. Yay for the Euro!
Tonight we’re going to a café to celebrate my friend’s acceptance into the neuroscience major- this definitely warrants pivo.
I leave you with the Czech word of the day.
Americanky (pronounced A-mer-i-chun-ky). I think it’s a fitting description of our country’s citizens. From now on I’m pretending to be Kanadianky.
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La Traviata is one of my favorite operas!!! yay jo!
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