Getting Adjusted

I slept well last night but woke up an hour earlier than i needed to this morning at 5 am. I attended several of Matt's classes to get a feel for what the job will be like and it seems much better than i had imagined. The class this morning was quite long at four hours but the students (19-20 yr olds) were fun and we had some interesting discussions. Today it was mostly about religion which was particularly interesting because a majority of the population is atheist. After this, we went to a restaurant and i got a quick bite to eat--had some fried brie with ham which i thought was very good. Fried cheese is very popular here. Matt had a total of 4 classes today and the second one seemed much harder because it was with relative beginners and you have to speak v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.

I came back to the flat and slept during Matt's third class but then went with him to his fourth which was with two high school girls who are well spoken. Afterwards they took us to a tea house where I practiced phrases from the Czech phrase book and among other things we discussed the Mixed Pickles (a band in which one of the girl's boyfriend is a drummer).

Our apartment is located in a hotel which i think is the tallest building in Vysoké Mýto (pronounced Vee-soki Mee-toe) that is owned by an Italian bus company which employs workers from Poland and Slovakia. The building looks modern and nice on the outside but our apartment (on the third floor) is not that impressive but it has all of the essentials.