This past Saturday, January, 27, I was in New York City with my two friends for a Khalid concert. I'd been waiting for my envelope from Essex for the past three weeks but figured it wouldn't come that Saturday. After eating lunch, I got a text from my mom saying the envelope had arrived! My friends and I facetimed my mom as she opened the envelope. In it, a Rotary "passport" with the words "Czech Republic" written along the side, with a pin attached at the top! It was such a strange feeling to finally receive my country after three years. I was shaking so much and didn't know what to think. I was positive I was going to my other top choices because earlier that month, the chair of the program told me that Czech was already full. Anyways, I was so excited to learn about my placement to care. The first person I told was my friend from the Czech Republic, Matej, who'd texted me everyday asking if I had my country yet. Following Matej, my friend posted a picture of my on my snapchat with the caption "HE'S GOING TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC" and I continued to tell my friends and family. All of this led up to my Khalid concert at night. It was easily one of the most exciting days of my life.
Yesterday, Sunday, I spent most of the day learning Czech. Hmm... I don't know what to say about it. It's about as difficult as I expected. I am very lucky to already know a lot of Polish (my mother is Polish), so I can already understand a good amount of Czech. However, speaking it is so weird! It seems like im speaking incorrect Polish which is so hard to wrap my head around. For example, in polish 'we were' is 'byliśmy,' and in Czech it's 'byli jsme.' Knowing Polish is both a huge advantage and disadvantage, but I'm sure that once I get there, I'll have no problem adjusting to Czech. I've already watched so many videos about Prague and other Czech cities and I'm so happy with my country assignment. THANK YOU SO MUCH JOANNE!
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