Language camp, and first day of school

Alright then, been a while since i have posted but i was at my language camp so i had an excuse. Wow so much happened at language camp it was so so so much fun! For 2 weeks we had 18 of the 24 inbound students get together and attempt to learn the basics of the hardest language with the Latin alphabet. It helped a lot because i now can pick out words when people are speaking and i learned all the basic stuff...foods,numbers,drinks,random vocab,verbs,and alot more. We had 2 teachers Tomaš and Mila and they were alot of fun, we had about 3-4 hours of lessons a day and the rest of it was activities. We played games outside,went swimming twice, went to the castle in Jindrichruv Hradec about 4 times. (JH literally translates to Henry's castle, so my name in Czech is Jindra) Everyone got really close and i like our group alot i can tell we are going to have alot of fun.

The breakdown of the 18 of us so far goes this way. 11 girls 7 guys, 3 canadians , 2 aussies, i mexican, and the rest are from the US..so basicaly north america and australia but its really cool we all speak english and...soon enough czech.

If you want to know where i have been so far in the Czech here is a list of towns..

Frydek-Mistek (hometown)

Opava (host parents family lives there)

Jindrichruv Hradec (language camp location)

Tabor (during camp we went there for a day)

Lisa Hora (translates to bald mountain...that's where my school trip was at)

Ostrava (bought my bass there and flew into there)

I feel like my first month has gone by so much slower,or that it was so much longer (hope that made sense). I just hit the one month mark about last Saturday and its crazy to think i have been away from home that long.

here's a little bit of Czech i learned,... don't judge me on it this language is impossible

čau hey/hi

jak se maš? how are you

mloovit anglicky? do you speak english?

nero zumim! i dont understand

mam hlad. i am hungry

prosim, tři colu , dekuju please/excuse me, 3 cokes , thankyou

simple stuff i use everyday :)

Alright and as for my first day of school, that was today! I have 12 english classes a week, 8 german classes , 7 technical/ typing classes and 2 czech ones...oh and a few other gym classes it should be fun. The hard part/ fun part is to learn german in czech , so it shall be an experience today it was my favorite class. Sadly i understood more german in those 2 hours of class than i have since i lived in the czech of understanding czech. (that didnt make sense...to bad)

love you all

harry/jindra

read me!!

Well this is my last post for a while, tommorow morning Jeff''s host father will pick myself up and the other exchange student thomas for our language camp. It lasts 2 weeks and is located in Jindřichův Hradec (don't worry its hard for me to pronounce also), it's in south Bohemia.

Ok food, wow its gotten better if possible! Naps oh my gosh they are my best friend as well, but first food. My host father was in China for 10 days and he got back yesterday, and since he got back my host mom it seems to me at least has been making really good food for him and us (martin was still here). We got steak it was tough but still really juicy good, and two days in a row i got french fries for lunch! (my fav. american food) The milk here is quite different, Martin said that you can buy some milk and if you don't drink it within 3 days it goes bad..no preservatives i guess. Other milk has a longer shelf life but it is still quite hard to drink plain, i have to drink it with food in mouth already because of the sour taste. My family has even gotten the higher percentage of grease in the milk ,and its still like wow...no one at home would say this milk is fresh...but it is so i drink it. :)

Next naps, like i said they are really good. It's been raining here like for 3 days straight so i have nothing to do really, i mean i do but naps...way better! Yesterday i woke up at about 11 o clock.. had breakfast, had a nap woke up maybe played some guitar or bass, had lunch..got on facebook or myspace e-mail,then had another nap woke up...and time for dinner...not a waste of a day at all! :) Also i had a nap today after lunch, this weather is perfect for them, but if i was to keep it up i would get fat real soon.

I mentioned i played guitar or bass, no i didn't bring them from home. My host dad's brother i think his name is Pavel loaned me his daughters guitar...haha its an old classical acoustic but i like it. On it is a sticker that says Come Back To Me (translation) its in the shape of a heart its funny. For the bass i bought an electric (because acoustic basses do not exist in this country or so it seems!) 4 string, it's pretty good it's an apollo.

Ahh tea, they drink that here like we drink pop in the US or whatever your favorite drink is, in the CZ its Chai Tea. I'm getting used to it, but at first i refused it (after trying it first of course). I have drank it like the last couple nights im starting to like it...its kinda odd because in the US i basically hated tea.

not much else to say for now, i don't think i will be able to post while in language camp so this is it for a bit.


just to keep you all in the loop if you don't know.
Martin -host parents grandson
Tony -host dad
Milada -host mom
Jeff -Canadian exchange student
Thomas -exchange student from Tennesee

-Harry

school / school field trip

Ok. Then. !. yea i dunno what that is ignore it...plus the last blog before i had a problem with the text turning into hindi text after i typed it...dont ask...its for the best you dont ask . .. ...!

Anyway back to the name of this post school...i at first thought i would be going to a High school. Well i was wrong but i am going to school of course that is part of the program but in the czech republic i am attending a trade school by the name of Goodwill Vos. It was started by an american who lives in the Czech Republic and it has about 400 students. The students have all finished highschool already so they are ages 19-21... big difference for me and the 2 other exchange students attending here because... well the other 2 guys are age 16 one is from Canada his name is Jeff and the other is from Tennesee and his name is Thomas. We are getting along really well. I can tell we will have a good year.

For something like a freshman orientation for all the new students to the school this year, including us exchangees. It was only for a day and a half, but it kinda seemed like longer just because everyone asked us the same questions...
"something in czech we did not understand"
and i would respond with "nero zumim" (i dont understand in CZ) "jsem američan" (i am american)
but other than speaking to people who either know english well enough to have a conversation, or others who you have to press to get anything out of,it was a good way to meet the students.
We were suppose to climb some moantain around 1300 meters...but it rained so much that after walking for 20 minutes the teachers turned us around and we went back to the hotel we were staying to just do random nothingness.

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