Beginnings...the first day

Well…it’s definitely been a couple of crazy days…it’s hard to believe it’s only my 2nd night in Prague. Almost 25 hours of flying definitely left me a little jetlagged. I got to JFK early and met up with 2 girls (Jill and Christine). Me hauling my luggage from one terminal to the other was quite a site…I had a bookbag, a tote, a large suitcase, and a large duffel bag. I definitely almost knocked a few people out trying to get it to the airport. Once I met up with the girls we waited it out in the airport until our flight to Paris. The other girls eventually got there, and after more sitting around the airport, we finally left for Paris. We flew over on Air France (which was pretty awesome…never hate on the French again :D), and then took a connecting flight from Paris to Prague, where we were picked up by our academic director (Sarah) and a program coordinator (Susannah) and driven to our hotel. We finally got to the hotel at 4:30 (Czech time). We ate dinner at a restaurant right across the street (the name of which I can’t remember because it’s some complicated Czech name). I was an old woman and went to bed at 9:00 pm. However, I definitely don’t feel bad about this, because I only slept for 1 hour on the flight over. I did get up at 7:30 this morning (…no one have a heart attack…shocking, I know), and I went walking around near the hotel by myself (since no one else was up). Our hotel is kind of close to the center of the city, and it was really fun to walk around. The houses are the typical Czech facades…flat and many different colors with red roofs. There were also a lot of people out scraping sidewalks and walking dogs, because it snowed overnight.