Thursday. 4th June

     Prague!, a historic city. A city stuffed full with theaters, museums, art, beautiful old buildings and bars which sell hectoliters of beer. When I decided to sign up for the seminar, Prague maybe was the main reason to join this group of Erasmus and German students. Well, I guess I’m not the only one who was convinced by that reason.    

     On Thursday the 4^th June everyone you wanted to go on the Prague-trip  came to the airport in Bremen. Michael our lecturer made a good deal so that we had to pay really just a little amount of money for the flight with Ryan Air. We were 7 students (two Germans) and Michael. The flight was almost less than 50 min long, so we landed pretty early at the Prague airport. The good thing was that Michael was there before several times, so he knew the way and which buses and trams we had to take. Everybody was excited to explore the city, especially the nightlife! But business before pleasure… . Our first station was the private Metropolitan University of Prague in a district 20 minutes from the city center. Two women who worked for the international office welcomed us and hold a presentation about how the things are going on in this uni. They showed us charts and tables which included numbers of incoming and outgoing students. Furthermore we find out that this place of higher education is pretty young. It was founded in the year of 2001. But for me the really interesting thing was the fact that the Metropolitan and the old established Charles University of Prague didn’t seemed to have the best relationship! Next day we could hear the other side what was interesting because it was definitely the same kind opinion but just from another point of view. But I will talk about that later. As I said, they welcomed us and provided cookies, coffee and tea so we felt comfortable! Some of us asked thought-out questions like “By the way, what is your wifi-password?” No no I’m just joking! We had a nice conversation with the two women about higher education, the international programs like Erasmus and as well about their own life story. What I have to add is or rather what I really appreciated is that the whole school is wheelchair accessible! However this is something I can’t say for the rest of the city. The traditional trams are inaccessible for physically disabled people. In the end we spend one and a half hour at the metropolitan and had a good time. So far so good but now it was time for having a beer! On our way to the uni we passed a bar with divine prices (1 Euro for half liter of beer!!!)  and it was just around the corner. Michael invited us and we could finally enjoy our first beer in the Czech Republic! It was delicious and everybody seemed to be satisfied. But unfortunately we had a problem with the hostel later on. These incompetent ****** overbooked the rooms so we had to find a hostel for that night. Luckily we could find something right across the street but it was still annoying because on the next day we had to change the accommodation again. That evening we cooked a meal together and everyone was helping which was cool because we didn`t know pretty good before but nevertheless we worked as a clockwork. But we were not finished for that evening! Michael reserved a table at “The Pub” so it was time to drink some more beer that night! Special thing about THIS Pub was, that we had our own tap on the table so we didn’t had to order. On top they had a screen on the wall which showed the beer- consumption of every table in the bar. Sooo challenge accepted ;). Anyhow we spend the rest of the night at that place and Rostia a friend of Michael who lives in Prague joined us. I guess  everyone slept like a baby in that night !