Praha

So we are back in Prague for a week.  This is a week of intense study and lecture series.  Today we had a lecture on Reinhard Heydrich, the 3rd highest ranking Nazi official behind Hitler and Heinrich Himmler.  The guy who gave the lecture (via our translator, Eva) was very thorough and had so much interesting information about the beginning of Heydrich's rise to power and up until immediately after his assassination.  We then went to the village that the Nazis randomly picked out and destroyed after Heydrich's death, as sort of retaliation against the Czechs for supposedly hiding the parachuters who killed Heydrich.  All very interesting.  Tonight we watched a movie called 'Divided We Fall' where these non-Jewish Czechs who used to work for a Jewish industrialist before they were sent away, end up hiding the eldest son of the family for 2 years in their apartment.  It all turns out so awesome!  Tomorrow we have a day full of presentations, each 2 1/2 hours long.  And then we have another movie.  Might not go to that because I have to make sure my presentation is awesome for Thursday and the people who are presenting tomorrow didn't go to the movie so why should I?  Anyway, must go do group work.  Have I ever mentioned that I strongly dislike group work, especially this one because the only people who have actually finished reading the book are myself and my roommate.  Great.  Until next time...