We were in Vienna for a day. We were a little lost and hungry, on a Sunday. Everything was closed, especially since it was 8 in the morning. We walked around the Ernst-Happen-Stadion. It was completely desolate. However we found this Hot Dog stand that was just opening and some construction workers getting to it. We approached it too. Everybody was speaking German, or a version of it. I ordered a bratwurst, the lady was smiling at me but she didn't understand a thing I was saying, until I said "Wurst", I think. The bratwurst was a baguette with a big sausage inside, cheese and ketchup. It was pretty good, we only needed one to feed the four of us and we learned how to say "thank you" in German: "danke"
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We took the bus to Prague, we had no problems there, the bus attendant gave instructions in both German and English. We finally met our friends in Prague. They took us to this beautiful little town in the country, Opatovice, where we met my friend's dad. He doesn't speak any English, so we started learning some new words in Czech, we used lots of mimic to be able to understand each other when my friend was not around. It was fun, and as usual, my daughters learned more words and used them more often than me. Some of the words I learned to use everyday are: dobrou noc (good night), dekuji (thank you), sbohem (goodbye), prosim (please), jack se mas (how are you) dobre ( fine).
Like anybody who speaks a different language than you, people here seemed to be very happy when we attempted to use their language, so we did our best. Young people, thought, could speak English as well. That is one thing I want my daughters to keep in their minds, that is wonderful to learn other languages, it is helpful and it is fun.
We visited Prague also, beautiful, dreamy city. We spent most of our time in Kutna Hora, where my friend is from. I had the opportunity to visit my friend's daughter classroom and I loved how beautifully organized the students were. It was a first grade classroom, they all changed their street shoes into sleepers as they come in school, so the floors were pretty cleaned. They had like 15 minutes of English, my girls got to be in the spotlight teaching the class some colors and the pronunciation. We also visited my friend's younger son school. It was a Montessori school and it was pretty interesting. I loved it. The kids played outside, even though is pretty cold, they ate together traditional food, pretty delicious too, and they cleaned after themselves. If they got too cold, there was one warm room they could go to, inside there were no chairs, only lots of blankets and pillows, books, coloring papers, crayons, stuffed animals. It was a very relaxed room, there was one teacher in there reading aloud to some students.
This is the school. The round room is the warm room. 
The bathroom was outside.
It was a neat experience. All the teachers could speak English as well as Czech. I didn't want to ever leave that beautiful town. But we had to and I will tell you where we went on part II.
We visited Prague also, beautiful, dreamy city. We spent most of our time in Kutna Hora, where my friend is from. I had the opportunity to visit my friend's daughter classroom and I loved how beautifully organized the students were. It was a first grade classroom, they all changed their street shoes into sleepers as they come in school, so the floors were pretty cleaned. They had like 15 minutes of English, my girls got to be in the spotlight teaching the class some colors and the pronunciation. We also visited my friend's younger son school. It was a Montessori school and it was pretty interesting. I loved it. The kids played outside, even though is pretty cold, they ate together traditional food, pretty delicious too, and they cleaned after themselves. If they got too cold, there was one warm room they could go to, inside there were no chairs, only lots of blankets and pillows, books, coloring papers, crayons, stuffed animals. It was a very relaxed room, there was one teacher in there reading aloud to some students.
It was a neat experience. All the teachers could speak English as well as Czech. I didn't want to ever leave that beautiful town. But we had to and I will tell you where we went on part II.
