Nice Driveway!

So, today was long, but good.

It started out with Czech class, which honestly at this point is nearly unbearable. Tomorrow is our last 4-hour class, thank heaven. Hopefully having other classes will give me a break from all the intensive linguistic torture that is the Czech language.

After class, I went on a tour of Josefov, the Jewish Quarter of Prague. This wasn't a required tour for me, but I decided to go along cuz I figured I might learn something. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware that it was going to be a 5-hour long excursion. Our tour guide was interesting, but she kept going off on tangents, and then giving us only 10 minutes to look around the synagogues. Anyways, it was pretty awesome to go into the Old-New Synagogue, which is the oldest continuously-run synagogue in the world (built in the 13th century). We also went into the Spanish synagogue, and two others whose names escape me at the moment. By far the most moving part was the synagogue that had the names of all of the Czech Jews that had died in the Holocaust written on the walls... it was mind-boggling to see so many names.

This evening was also interesting. Zuzana had some friends that wanted to hang out with us and practice their English, so me and Elana went out with them. The guys were named Jara and Jon. They took us to a club called Cross Club, which was AWESOME. It's really tough to describe, but basically the whole building, including the patio outside and all the rooms inside, is decorated in scrap metal sculptures. There were tons of gears and pipes and all kinds of stuff everywhere you looked. Two bands played while we were there, the first was a kinda crappy Ska band, and the other was a rock band. It was really interesting to sit and talk with Jon and Jara, but I got the feeling they thought that we were kind of killjoys because we refused to drink much cuz it was a school night. But they were really cool and really nice, and I hope we get to go out with them again.