Get Lost

So Monday started off strangely as we had to be up by 8am to take the metro to the NYU classrooms. Due to me sleeping practically all day Sunday, I could not, no matter how hard I tried, manage to sleep at all Sunday night. So Monday morning was really slow and our little suite of 4 people was a bit late to the downstairs meeting. The lady, Julia, who is a past-teacher in charge of our building, was not a happy camper. But we made it and then as a group of 25 ish? left to take the metro. Now, I love love love metro's; when my dad and I visited New York and Washington D.C. we took the metros everywhere, so I feel I have a pretty good handle on what is proper behavior for taking a metro. For example, one does not say "man, so this is what sardines feel like, nobody pickpocket me guys!" And when prompted to shut up, one does not say " ... it doesn't matter, no one here speaks English". >.< I don't want to stereotype but for a vast majority of people from the USA, I can understand why everyone else in the world finds us annoying. On this metro ride, and on all the other ones I have been on here, no one is talking. Absolutely no one. There is complete silence. And as we have been told by our teachers, most everyone does speak English, they might not show it, and pretend they don't understand, but they do.
Our teachers and some of the other students keep telling us to "get lost" because you discover more that was and it's more interesting. But...if I get lost...then I'm lost. >.> I don't mind wandering with a group of people I just don't know about being lost while alone.
Anyway, on a more positive note! The classrooms are really good and the windows look out into this beautiful little square, and the building across the way is covered in paintings. We had opening remarks by the program leader, she spoke about how we are all going to be ambassadors to Prague and how we are all participating in a Socratic dialect, and she ended her eloquent speech with "and that is why it is important to come to each class". Each of the teachers also spoke briefly about the program and a lady who was a student last year gave a presentation on The White Lady from Cesky Krumlov who was an aristocrat that people thought was a vampire. Then a girl spoke who took the summer class last year and decided to move to Prague and is now attending Prague University. That was interesting. Let's just say I didn't know there were people who pronounced gyro "guy-ro".
After the orientation a group of us went out to lunch, I had a deep fried chicken cutlet with fries. We ate at one of the common Czech food stands, which primarily serves different kinds of sausages. I don't like sausages, so it was chicken cutlet or fried-cheese sandwich. We then broke off in a group of 5 in search of a pastry shop. We didn't find it but the exploring was fun and we "got lost" in that I couldn't find where we were on the map, it was very easy to find the metro from where we were and we were only 3 stops from our dorms. 3 of us went to the grocery store and then I napped through dinner. I also bought a 16GB memory card for my camera so I shouldn't run out of room!

On the Vlatava (the Moldau):

 Our group walking through the streets:

 Love the Big Bang Theory!