Monday, September 24, 2007

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

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting to know.