We had our first day of class Wednesday. We met with the Dean and some of the other faculty to get our class schedules and books for less than an hour then class was done with for Jon and I until today. We were only signed up for one course on the Czech culture and economy but we decided to sign up for another class called Applied Informatics. It seems like it should be very informative, its all about computers and data entry. We are suppose to have a lecture from 9:00 to 11:00 and then a lab from 11:00 to 1:00 every Friday but we were only there for less than an hour today and the class is completely canceled next week. Our Czech culture class seems like it should be a lot of fun too. We only have lecture every other week and then the other weeks we go visit historical sites of the Czech or the traditional Czech life style. Pretty rough schedule here as you can tell. We are done with class for the next two weeks! We will still have our intership (hopefully) but we have to talk with the Dean on Monday to see what we are doing, we'll keep you posted on that.
As far as the last few days go, Wednesday after class we didn't do too much, ran some errands and I went and got my first pair of European shoes! YAY!!!! Wednesday night a lot of the Erasmus students went out. Wednesday nights in Brno are like our Thursday nights in Whitewater, everyone goes out. Jon and I stayed out for a few hours then headed back to the dorms. Their bars over here are extremely smokey and not well ventilated. Most of them are in basements where there are no windows and EVERYONE is smoking so its hard to stay out for hours on end because you start to get a sore throat and can't breathe because of all the smoke. Thursday was another free day. We've had so many free days lately we don't know what to do with ourselves! We heard that there was a zoo not too far from our dorm so we decided to check it out. It was a lot different than our American zoo's that forsure. The entire thing was on the side of a huge hill, we got our exercise in for the day! The animal cages would definately not fly in the US. You could put your arm right through some of the cages of some of the animals and in some cases their was only some shrubbery with a small electric fence as a barrier. Over all it was pretty cool to see the difference between an American Zoo and the ones here. There wasn't anyone at the entrance so we got in for free, another plus to the day.
Oh on another note, we think we finally got the whole room situation figured out...we think! We have only visited the accommodation office every day since we've been here, NO JOKE! Their whole system of trying to get people housing is really messed up. Jon and I aren't even listed in the dorms residence list but we are in the main data base. My roommate on the other hand is listed in the dorms as a resident in a different room and not in the main system under a different person may I add. Its really messed up especially when you can barely communicate with them, but we think we finally got everything figured out. Other than that not too much else is new. We were thinking about taking off for a few days and possibly visiting Prague since we don't have anything to do this weekend still haven't made any finalized plans yet. Hope all is well back home. We miss everyone!
Lynsey and Jon
