today i learned caj means tea (pronounced like "chai")

So I'm here!

It's been a very long day - we flew overnight and lost 6 hours in the time change. We're staying in a really cute hotel until Saturday when we'll move into our homestay (all of which speak some semblance of english and have internet, hooray!!) All the girls are nice and I think we click well. It's nice to have a small group walking around 'cause we don't look super super touristy.

We spent a good portion of the day in different cafes today which were so cute. I really like our homestay coordinator, Lenka, who is young and Czech and very giggly and sweet. She picked us up from the airport and is great to ask questions and she took us on a walk around the neighborhood where our hotel is.

Sarah, our academic director is a little older, but i can tell is no nonsense and very smart. She isn't quite as warm, but I like her and think she's going to be really good as our program director. She's fluent in Czech and has been living in Prague for 13 years doing a lot of art history stuff. It's cool 'cause all the girls in the group - all 7 of us! - have a range of majors.

Tomorrow we have a lot of orientation things, then we get to go have dinner on our own, and then we're going to a dance performance :)

I've never had the experience of being in country where everyone speaks another language, but it's made me shy about speaking english because I feel like everyone will know I'm american and it's embarressing!

Okay, it's 9 and I gotta crash. Goodnight!