October

Today is October 2, marking, among other things, that I've been in the Czech Republic for a month now! It also means I'm a little under 1/3 finished with study abroad. Thinking about it kind of makes me anxious... I haven't left the Czech Republic since I got here - what if i don't get to see all the things I want to see?! I'm not that nervous about it, but I'm sort of kicking myself in the pants for not getting anywhere yet. In my defense, though, I have been all over the czech republic.

Classes are going really well so far- there is a lot of reading but overall it isnt strenuous and the readings are pretty interesting. A lot of the communication theory is almost identical to the communication theory i've been taught in Boston (which is not surprising because of global communications, and it wasnt that i was going to argue any of the theories i'd been taught, but it's nice to know they are universal). My czech class is becoming very grammar heavy, arg! The czech language has seven cases. I feel like i'm learning english grammar at the same time i learn czech. In the accusative, the direct object and the adjectives change- but not if the d.o. is masculine animate... and there is a different ending for feminine, masculine inanimate and neutral. And all the endings are different if it is plural. We havent even gotten to past and future (except like "Yesterday i stayed home- in which you use the form of the word twice- once in the past infinitive and once... i dont even know) Do you have a headache yet? Little kids speaking czech is extremely cool. It makes me jealous.

My Kafka to Kundera class is going really well. Right now i am reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera. Infinitely cool as it is set in Prague for the most part. I'm enjoying it a lot so far- just a little bit more to go! One of the other authors we will read, Hrabal, came up in my Alternative Czech Culture class as one of the core founders of the czech underground during the communist rule. I love it when my classes overlap a little bit, I feel like I'm getting the parts to a puzzle that fit together.

Well, I've got some homework to get to before class.

AHOj!