Prague & our school

PRAGUE _________________________________________________________

Prague is an old city founded sometime around 9th century AD. One of the first buildings is the Prague Castle which is today also the official office of the President of Czech Republic. Interesting fact is that according to the Guinness Book of Records, Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle in the world. Prague is the current capital of Czech Republic.

But now we will focus on present. In Prague there are more than 1 million people which is around 10% of whole population of Czech Republic. For population this big to travel easily, there is large public transportation system which consists of metro, tram, and bus.

Picture of the metro train

Plan of the metro lines

In Prague there is almost everything. Few minutes of walk gets you to some big shopping center where you can buy clothes, eat fast food, go to cinema, and more.

Of course, since Prague is very old, there is a lot of historical sights. Namely, Charles Bridge, National Theatre, many cathedrals and churches, and so on.

Charles Bridge

OUR SCHOOL _________________________________________________________

So now you know something about our capital city. I would like to introduce our school a little bit aswell. So as you’ve already read in the first post the name of the school is Masaryk institute of advanced studies in Prague.
It’s a part of the Dejvice campus which includes all of the faculties of CTU – Czech technical university in Prague. A big library is also a part of the campus.
Now let’s move on to our school. I would just like to point out that there’s a really good accesibility by public transport because the tram stop is located only few hundred metres away. I personally really appreciate that.

I won’t go to much detail about the building itself because you can see it on the picture below. It’s a four storey building and all the floors look pretty much the same. There’s always a long hallway with doors on both sides leading into the classrooms. We have a buffet on the ground floor and there are also few vending machines scattered through out the hallways. The lecture hall is also located on the ground floor. 

I’m pretty bad at describing things so that’s all I could think of. Maybe we will post some photos from inside the school so you could have a better idea of what our school actually looks like. 

Who are we?

Hi! Welcome to our blog! We are two Czech students attending our first year at MIAS - Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies in Prague and we would like to introduce ourselves a little bit. Just to let you know we haven't known each other before we started our first semester at MIAS. We just happened to sit next to each other during our first days and we just started talking. We were in the same group for all our lessons the first semester but now we're in seperate groups so we see each other only during English lessons and lectures.

And now let's move on to the second member of our team - Ondřej.

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That's all for now. But our next post is coming soon.