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Week 1 in Prague was a lot to handle! Just like any other school, we started with orientation. Orientation was both too long and too short all at once. It was a blur of culture shock lessons and lectures about Czech culture and how we can learn to adapt in such a short amount of time. We got European disposable phones, some reading packets, and bam! School started!

View from our school at Vysehrad

School for me consisted of 4 hours a day, one hour of Czech language class and three hours of psychology and art. Initially the hardest part about school was getting there. We received simple instructions of how to make our way to school, but we were left on our own to figure out the half hour commute by ourselves. Our school was located at the top of Vysehrad, one of the tallest points in the city. So this also meant a grueling climb... every... single... day.

So school was during the day, which allowed us to explore during the afternoon and night. One of the first nights, our Flat Buddy, Jakub had a musical performance. Jakub is a music major who specializes in Jazz drums. So he had a jazz club concert and invited a bunch of us to go! It was really cool, we got to watch and cheer on our Flat buddy while he performed in front of a whole jazz club. It felt way too surreal, almost movie like - being abroad, drinking cocktails, and listening to good music with other students domestic and foreign.

Jakub and his Jazz Band

The rest of the first week went by like a blur, a mix of culture shock and intense classes.