Done with Czech!

It's official, I am now done with my Czech intensive language course!  Oh my, such relief!  We had our final yesterday that everyone was stressing over and was about half of our grade but I did very well on it.  Today we met up with our class and watched the movie Hair because the director is from the Czech Republic.  Then afterwards we went to this very nice and fancy cafe called Louvre, it is named after the Louvre Museum in Paris.  It was quite delicious and had truly amazing chocolate cake.  Now it is the beginning of the weekend before classes officially begin.  

My time so far in Prague has been amazing.  I love venturing out and seeing the different sights, buildings, finding coffee shops, and all of the historical areas.  I found a cute coffee shop/american bookstore which may become my favorite hangout.  I went there the other day and just read for two hours, it was beautiful.

One of the biggest things which I believe I am learning about here is all about World War II.  I feel like this may be kind of a dumb comment, but I did not really realize how much Prague and the Czech Republic was impacted by the war (I mean, I should have since it truly did impact the entire world).  On a field trip the other day in class we watched a movie about how these two men came to Prague and assasinated this man (I'm terrible for not remembering his name) who was Hitler's number 2 guy and was running the Nazi group in Prague.  After he was assasinated they were looking for the men who killed him and began to kill thousands upon thousands of people who even slightly were okay with the killing.  They also went into small nearby villages and killed everyone in them and destroyed the cities.  We saw footage and photos of them doing this and it was truly horrendous.  There is so much history in this city that it is all overwhelming.  Everything that this country has been through in the past 100 years begins to make you realize why the people are the way they are.  It truly makes me feel amazingly blessed that I have been able to live a life with very few complications and that it has been nothing compared to what these people have seen.

Well my mom comes on Monday and then my aunt Debbie comes on Tuesday so I am very excited for them to come and for me to show them around.  I will have more updates soon.  Much love!