Finally, a new post! I know all of my faithful readers (all three of you) have been waiting on the edge of your chairs for more pictures, so here you are. I can't believe I've been in Prague for three weeks already!
We started class a couple weeks ago, and I really like them for the most part. My favorite is definitely my Modern Dissent class, which is taught by a man named Jan Urban. He's a journalist, and was also a major dissenter during the communist period and helped make the country the way it is now after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He's kind of a big deal. I'm also in Czech Art and Architecture, which is awesome. We basically learn about the city and go on field trips to various places to check stuff out. It's taught by a British expat who was the quintessential "Art History Professor" voice. I'm also in Czech and History of Nationalism, but that might change soon. Only time will tell. Actually, time and the academic coordinator, but that's neither here nor there. Anyways, on with the pictures!
On Monday, NYU had a welcome dinner for all of the students and staff (even though we'd already been here for two weeks). The dinner was good, and after some friends and I took a walk down the river to check out a very exciting art piece that we'd been seeing from a distance for a while.
Penguins! They're on the Vltava River at a museum.
Katie being invaded by the penguins.
Walking like the penguin army
Me
Miranda with her daily zmrzlina
One day earlier last week (I don't really remember when), Lauren, Miranda, and I did some wandering around Old Town. We decided to go check out the National Museum on a whim since it was the only museum we knew where it was off the top of our heads, but it turns out they were closed. So we took pictures on the steps looking over Wenceslas Square.
Wenceslas Square
Miranda and Lauren
That hat makes me feel like Mary Tyler Moore. But I didn't want to risk throwing it in the air in case it landed in something gross.
Last Sunday we had a dorm event in which our RA Pavol made us pancakes and then we went down the street to the DOX--a museum near the dorm. The main attractions were the giant wall of stacked books and the snow on the balcony that we got to mess around in.
Lots of books
The exhibit had something to do with capitalism, but I don't really remember what.
Walkway behind the wall
BOOKS!
The snow was just waiting for us to draw things in it
Miranda preparing to be a child again
Lauren, creating what in my mind could only be a soccer goal
Our handiwork. The big frog-looking guy is mine!
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