First Day of School

Wow, school is going to be hard. Today was one of the longest days in a long time. I started off in an English class with another American exchange student from South Dakota. The teacher was very kind and helpful, and he explained my schedule to me. My second class was physics. The teacher didnt speak English, and I couldn't understand what was going on in the lecture. He asked me something partway through class, and I responded that I didn't speak much Czech. The students almost died laughing, which didn't help my bewildered mood. After that class some guys came up and offered to help me find my next class, music. I immediatly said yes. It was a longer break between classes, so they also showed me the lunch room, the lockers, the gym, and the snack bar. Music class didn't really happen because the piano was being tuned. We sat in the classroom for the first period of the double hour class, and went to the town square for ice cream during the second hour of the class. Lunch was a little complicated because of a chip scanning system, but my classmated helped me again. The food isn't very good. Today was powdered mashed potatoes with gritty soup and dry pork. After lunch was my Czech class. It was mainly discussion, so I read my Czech textbook. The teacher was the same English teacher from the morning, so he asked me a few questions in English to include me in the discussion. Math was geometry with the teacher from physics class. I didn't understand the point of the lesson, but I was not prepared with the right supplies. French was my final class. It seems like my language skills disappeared during the summer, i couldnt think of a lot of the verbs that the class was taking a test over. I could understand most of the dialogs in the workbooks, but when the teacher spoke she was hard to understand. I walked back to the house with my host sister after school, and I was glad that it was over.