Rockin the Red in Prahaaa

Today was a struggle waking up for my 9:15 class. Czech.  The class.. even more of a struggle.  We had a pop quiz, started learning grammer concepts I dont even understand in english(if they even exist) and she showed us that we can make our names into 500 different words depending on mood and how formal. Except mine, since Jen is a czech word I would have to get a new name completely.  NO THANKS. So needless to say, I dropped the course. While I still have the textbook and will teach myself relevant phrases, there is no way I am going to master the language.  Plus I got off the wait-list for Prague Art and Architecture, which I REALLY wanted to be in. So there will be my cultural part.  I signed up for contemporary american cinema, which will probably be more useful since I have seen no movies and aspire to work in the entertainment business.

CEA offered a program wide trip to the hockey game.  Even though I had class I decided to skip it (you can skip two... totally worth it).  We took the metro to the game.  The metro was built to be a bomb shelter so it is REALLY far underground.  The escalator probably took 5 minutes.  My ears were popping. It was one of those things where you didn't want to look down.  Somehow though, there was still cell service under there (NYC subways take note).

Anyways we got to the game and had 6th row seats behind the goal.  The cost 100 ck(5 dollars) for arguably the best seats in the house with the rowdiest fans and what we believe were a self proclaimed fan club. We got a beer and a hotdog for 75 ck which is insane that would be at least 15 dollars in the USA.(ans yes this means i tried a czech hotdog. It had onion rings and veggies on it but I deff needed to hide the taste with ketchup and mustard) Stadium beer cost the equivalent of 2 dollars a cup. It really is true, beer is cheaper than water here.  There were a bunch of czechs sitting behind as who laughed in the beginning at us trying to learn the cheers. I swear one sounded like go blue and being with Alot of michigan kids we alternated between that, rock the red, and hail to the victors.  I asked the Czechs if they knew Michael Neuvirth.  One boy was excited.  The other responded. "SPARTA IS SHIT". Guess they did know some english...  Somehow we bonded over ovechkin, the only other NHL hockey player they could name.  They are all Ovechkin fans surprisingly enough..So every time we were supposed to do something, the would say Ovechkin to me, and then show us what to do.  "Our" team praha slavia won. Its hard to explain the game experience, so look below at my "picture book" of the night.

does not even capture the height

very modern, but trams are much easier

the game was at the O2 arena 

 right before the game 

Sara, me and Jess 

our czech "friends" showing us a cheer

great seats

man down

some of the group

halftime warm-ups

 me and the mascot 

When the team scored our section spread a huge banner over our heads

sara and I got scarves (only 10 dollars!)

the game was tied, and went into a shoot-out

great save, we won!

a cool tradition after the teams shake hands the slavia praha team sat facing us and everyone in the stadium sat as well

then they stood up, and so did we 

they raised their sticks, we raised our scarves(so glad I purchased one)

then they slid towards us on the ice before exiting the rink

 goalie stood by himself and everyone cheered

and he slid onto us as well

 The hockey game was one of the most fun games I have ever been too. It was the second to last game of the season and I cant skip class again for the next one, but I cant wait for the playoffs and to see SPARTA the main team play.

court and her bloody mary

Typical, dinner at globe with the roomies and some boys across the all . I had a chicken cesar salad. Another item to czech off the list. 

Ok bedtime. 

Ahoj!