ok...here is Wednesday-Thursday

So, I think I left off on Wednesday...

Wednesday: Wednesday was mostly spent studying for my Czech language final. I went after class to study with one of my suite mates for a while, and then I came back and took a break...which means I got on facebook for like two hours :) I am on facebook so much here, but it really stinks, because the only people on facebook at the same time as me are the other people in my program here. Everyone back home is 6 hours behind, so if I get on before I go to class, everyone back home is sleeping. If I get on when I get back from class, everyone back home is in class, and if I get on right before I go to bed, I usually regret it because I end up talking with people till like 2 a.m. my time. *Sigh* life is so hard :) But anyway, after I got off facebook, I did some more studying and then went to bed. My brain only absorbs so much information, and then it's like, "Ok, Jessica, this has been fun, but we are shutting down operations here now, so anything else you try to remember will be 'returned to sender.'" However, despite the rebellions of my higher functions, I managed to remember quite a lot the next morning.

Thursday: So, if you haven't already guessed, I had my Czech language final in class on Thursday...and I aced it! But, I think it was mostly because my teacher really liked that I laughed at all her jokes, so she helped me a lot on the test. It pays to be nice to teachers. However, the majority of the kids started pre-gaming immediately after the test was over. So from about 2 p.m. on, most everyone was pretty intoxicated. I, surprise surprise, opted instead for sleep :) I took a nap because later that night I was signed up to go to the opening night performance of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. They played four pieces...two of which were Chopin, and I was unfamiliar with the other two composers. I am not a huge classical music lover, but I have enough sense to realize when something is pretty amazing, and this performance definitely qualified. The last piece we listened to was by a composer named, Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), and it was definitely my favorite piece. It was the most fluid, I thought. The first piece sounded like it was straight out of the TV show Lost. Any second I expected Jack to run onto the stage and be like, "How did we get here?? Did the island move again??" It was not what I expected. The two Chopin pieces were good, but they were sooo long. It was pretty ridiculous that we thought the show was over after the first Chopin piece was done, but it literally sounded like they had played three separate songs! Overall though, it was a good experience. I will try anything once...except for questionable looking meat. That I will not try at all...no matter how good it's "supposed" to be. After the performance I headed back to the dorm fulling intending to be in bed within like 30 minutes of arriving at my room. That, however, was not what ended up happening. Instead, I got talked into going out to a dance club. The club was supposed to be pretty legit, and we didn't really have anything planned on Friday in class except for a walking tour, so I gave in and went. We left the dorm around 11:30 p.m. and arrived at the club around midnight. The thing that surprises most about the clubs in Europe is the insane amount of American music that they play. I expected it to be all techno and house music, but no....they play Miley Cirus and Rihanna and.....Oldies! That's right! I can't tell you how many times I have heard "What is Love" or "I Love Rock n' Roll" or "YMCA" in the few short weeks I have been here. And all the Czech people sing the songs in English! It's actually one of the best surprises of the trip, because I am a HUGE Oldies fan. My favorite genre of music is definitely 50's & 60's rock n' roll or doo-wop style stuff, but don't judge me...everyone secretly loves "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." But, the absolute coolest thing about this club, which I didn't find out until today, was that this was the exact club where Rihanna filmed the music video to her song, "Please Don't Stop the Music." I watched the video and was like...wow, I totally recognize all of this! And, we even danced to that song while we were there....so awesome! It made the fact that I stayed out till like 4 a.m. a little more defensible.

Sometimes I feel a little weird describing in detail exactly what I do every day of the week here, cause most of the time I don't feel like it's that exciting. However, I know that one day I will look back on all this detail and be thankful that I actually wrote about what it was like to eat fried cheese, a speciality of the Czech Republic. Anyway, tomorrow I am going to do my best to finish the rest of this week, cause there is still more to tell! But it's now 12:30 a.m. here and I am tired, so goodnight!