Settling In...

Hello friends and family! We started school on Monday, we're taking an intensive Czech language class for the first two weeks. It's really not as "intense" as they make it sound though, it's only from 2-6:30. That means that we have the whole morning to explore. The czech language has some letters that make sounds which we do not have in the english language. One of them is where you roll your "r" while making a "j" sound. (By the way, everyone from Drew's class keeps telling me that he's the best in the class and that he is the only one who can pronounce things correctly!)

We live 10 minutes from the castle, and across the street is a monastary. Here is our dorm... can we say communism?



Yesterday morning we explored our neighborhood and found that we sit on top of a mountain overlooking the city. Here is the view from across the street:



If you look on the left side of this photo you can see the castle.

And here are two photos of the monastary across the street. One is of the church entrance and the other is from a little lower on the mountain looking up:





This is what we walk past to get to school:





You can see the castle again in that last photo. We haven't had a chance yet to actually go see it close up, but we pass by it several times a day. It was built in the 13th century. Crazy.

These photos do not do prague justice at all. So you really just need to come visit us :)