Mission to the Czech Republic

This past weekend was so refreshing! We finally had some cooler weather and some time to explore. Some of us on the Central Europe team decided to go hiking. First picture, L-R: Stacy (Prague), Che (Sokolov), Elanor (Prague), Me, Becky (Slovakia), Reba (Sokolov). Second picture, L-R: Stephen (alumni, Pribram), Elanor, Andrew (Kralupy), Ben (alumni, Pribram), Stacy

Ben and Stephen got us started learning Czech during the hike, which was helpful since we began our language and culture classes this week. I can now count to ten and recite various useful phrases such as:
My name is: jmenuji se
How are you?: Jak se mate?
Nice to meet you: Tesi me
Those are, of course, missing the accent marks since I can't type them. Some of the words look absolutely insane, such as the word for "four," which is ctyri (picture accents on the c and r). And it's pronounced something like "chteerzhy." I would pick the language with the second most difficult sound in the world to learn.