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Dobrý  den! 

We’ve had a busy first week here in Prague! Our week included moving in, getting to know the city, starting classes, and even an exam!

On Sunday we spent the day exploring Prague through a scavenger hunt. Starting in Wenceslas square, we visited places like the Lennon Wall, Charles Bridge, Old Town Square, the Dancing House, and even Vyšehrad cemetery to see Dvořák’s grave! We began the scavenger hunt in the morning and had all day to run around the city taking pictures in front of different landmarks and finding answers to Czech trivia questions – all without using the internet! As a result, we ended up talking to many friendly Czech people along the way to answer these questions. By the time we reached the final dinner destination at 6 PM, we were all exhausted! I think everyone met their step goal for the day.

My group’s shot in front of Charles Bridge

Two rival groups bumped into each other and took a picture (:

The winning group with their T-shirt prizes

Monday morning we started our classes at CET. We are all taking a course on Czech Politics and Culture taught by a Czech professor as well as Cross-Cultural Psychopathology which is taught by our program director from Carleton, Ken. In addition, students chose to either take a course on Czech Art and Architecture or on Czech Language. It has been a hectic week, as first week always is, but our classes are extremely interesting and I’m excited for the term ahead of us!

Sam and Ali matching at CET!

In addition to the start of classes, we also went on two walking tours this week. We walked around Old Town and New Town on Monday morning, and on Wednesday we headed over to the other side of the river to see the Prague Castle. It was a lot of fun to get an overview of the city, and it gave us a lot of ideas of places we want to go back and visit!

The tour at Prague Castle

The tour at the Lennon Wall

The last few days we’ve spent a lot of time reading and studying around our apartments and CET. So far, we’ve learned a lot about Czech history to give us a solid background for our coming studies. We also were studying for our final exam on the directed readings course we took over the summer, but we took the exam on Thursday afternoon and now have the long weekend ahead of us! I anticipate many of us will take this three day weekend (we don’t have classes on Fridays) to explore more of Prague – updates of our adventures coming soon!

Today was a very exciting day as we all moved into our apartments! Our apartments are in a great location, close to the city center but not in a tourist heavy area. We live only a short walk away from the CET school where we will be taking classes, across the street from a tram station and a park, and amazingly close to a new gym Ken found (so we will have no excuse not to work out while we’re here!)

This evening we all came together for dinner with our CET host and the Czech buddies who are living with us. The food tasted extra delicious to those of us who had traveled all day and hadn’t eaten in hours!

The rest of the day was spent settling into our new apartments and attempting to get over jet lag. We will kick off our program tomorrow morning as we start orientation. I’m excited to explore the city and start classes soon!

Ahoj!

Welcome to the Cross-Cultural Psychology in Prague program blog! On this blog, you can find out what we’ve been up to on our study abroad program. I’ll be sharing about places we’ve visited, things we’ve learned, and other fun things we’ve done. As I’m making my travel plans and starting our pre-program readings, I just keep getting more excited for our program! There are currently 55 days until our start date. If you’d like to follow along on the countdown, click on this link.

Thanks for following along on our adventure!