They have calling cards here that you can buy and swipe. I'll call you
when I'm free. Right now we're doing orientation, but I should have
some time soon. Last night we went to a local restaurant-pub and then
I slept about 12 hours. Ben and I ended up being in the airport for
over 24 hours.

We tried to stay in this airport hotel called FBA, which the woman at the information desk told us about, but it didn't seem to actually exist because we couldn't find anyone else who had even heard of it.

We move into the new dorms on Monday, which i also when we start the intensive Czech course. Today we were escorted to a tram to take us to the CIEE study center, but a few of us missed the tram. The tram operator seemed to have a vendetta against us or something; he closed the door right in our faces. So we had to get to the CIEE study center on our own, which we did. It was kind of nice in a way because we got
to see a lot of downtown Prague that way.

The study center is located right in the middle of Vysehrad, which used to be an old fortress. It's also the sight of Vysehrad cemetary, which is the national cemetary where Czech heroes are buried: people like the composer Antonin Dvorak and the first post-Communism president Vaclav Havel. It's literally about twenty feet from where I take classes.