Trying to keep these posts a bit more regular.

This week's been fairly fun. Saturday night was a blast, and Sunday was a recovery from that blast. Monday, we discussed potential side projects and had a language class.

And yesterday, we had film language, which discusses the core of filmmaking. Interesting stuff, actually, but the class itself was kind of intense. I suppose I shall simply get used to it.

Today, we had film theory/directing, and it was quite entertaining. My teacher declared Leni Riefenstahl an "immortal bitch" for taking so long to die (she was 101). Granted, her best film was for the Nazi movement, but she made one of the most powerful propaganda pieces ever. It's hard to debate. However, my teacher's endured two oppressive forms of government (Nazism and Communism) so it's really hard to argue with his opinions.

This weekend, Vefik and I are planning to go to Vienna, Austria. I'm really looking forward to it. There's a film festival there right now. Hopefully we can go to Budapest and Warsaw soon. And it's really been too long since I've been to Prague. And maybe I'll end up in Germany before the break in December.

I need to post pictures. As soon as I can figure it out, I will.

So it's been almost two weeks since my return from Prague. I'm trying to upload stuff onto webshots right now, but we'll see how well that all works out.

Sunday was the laziest day. We just hung out at the flat online. I started the blog. We didn't even go out that night.

Monday, we had language class, but we didn't even think about leaving the flat beforehand. We eventually got off the internet. Tuesday, the other international students arrived, and we all hung out. There's a guy from Norway named Eirik. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. We also have an Italian/German (born in Italy, lived most of his life in Germany except three years in Shanghai). And of course, Vefik and myself. Class started on Wednesday, and we found another student, George from Georgia.

The class went fairly well, film theory/directing. It was the beginning of school, so who knows how it will actually go throughout the year, but it was a good start. We had a practical exercise on Thursday (make a photo storyboard, which was fun). Friday, we had production class with Veronika Finkova. I was thoroughly impressed with this class.

The weekend was fairly lazy, watching movies and The Office. We had a VP debate party earlier in the week, but it was so late here that we had to take time to recover.

Monday, we watched Citizen Kane, as film students are apt to do. We had a ceremony for the school that was entirely in Czech on Tuesday, so I'm not sure what I agreed to do, but I've been told it's basically saying that we'll be good students. Afterwards, it was such a beautiful day with no plans that we took a train to Plzen, which was lovely. Plzen is the Czech equivalent to Hershey, PA, except that it's a beer town, not a chocolate town. We didn't get to tour the brewery, but we're going to go back.

Wednesday, we had kind of a Czech cultural study, which was fun. Then we went out for a while, and when I came back I had the urge to call people. Thursday, the festival started. We've seen several blocks of movies, saw one Czech feature (no translation... twas interesting), and went to some bizarre but fun parties. I've seen Miroslav Ondricek, the cinematographer that my school's named after. It's been interesting.

The festival ends tonight, and I'm not sure what we're doing tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have time to update more than just "we did this, this, and this" but who knows. I've started planning some of my travels over the break in Dec/Jan, so I'll post details as I figure them out.

Life's good, so enjoy it.