Jena Parker Days 13-14

Thursday June 30th- By now all of us students are used to the routine of having classes most everyday from 8-2:45. During our history class we learned about a town in the Czech Republic called Lidice. The city was completely destroyed by the Germans following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. All of the men were murdered and women and children were sent to concentration camps. After class some of the Czech students took us to see a movie, also called Lidice, that depicted these historic events. Hearing about genocide is always sad but watching the characters in a movie live through it knowing that it is based on reality is downright depressing. Even though it was a sad movie, it was really interesting to see a movie in Czech and compare it to the typical American movie experience. There was an awkward moment when the credits started to roll and all the Americans stood up to leave and everyone else stayed seated. Apparently people watch the credits here. Once we noticed everyone just sort of stretched and sat back down, I think we played it off pretty well.


Friday July 1st- The start of July brought a very important day.... our Czech language test. For the past two weeks we have been learning how to introduce ourselves and answer a variety of questions in Czech. Everyone enjoys the language classes because they are the most lively and active but I’d be lying if I said that all us students had been studying hard outside of class for this test. We won’t know our grades until next week so keep your fingers crossed for those results. After the test we were reminded that we have to finish up reading (or start reading in some cases) our books for literature class and write a paper on them. With all of our excursions and nights out in Prague it’s easy to forgot about the studying part of studying abroad.