Updates

I haven't written anything in a verrryyyyy long time but no matter, I'm back! I'm a little under half way through my second year at university and it has been tough! Made worse by my total lack of revision throughout the summer. But I've been working hard over Christmas so hopefully that's sorted! Anyway, next year I spend the year abroad in France and the Czech Republic as part of my language degree. So, in October I'm off to Paris to spend a few months studying in the Paris ghetto at Paris VIII, and then, in February I go to... Brno. Now, most people study Czech with Prague firmly in mind, but, alas, my uni believes that the purpose of the year abroad is to immerse yourself in the language rather than act a tourist in the Golden City. So it's to Brno, the second city, that I have been sent. But as you can see from the image at the top of the post, it really isn't such a disaster, it's a truly beautiful city, and possibly more of a living and working one than central Prague; it will definitely be easier to pick up Czech. This is for 2 reasons, one, Moravian Czech is actually closer to the written standard than the form spoken in Bohemia and 2, I'm more likely to get a chance to actually speak the language.