A Whole Mess of Stupid

Let me preface this by saying that everyone in my group here is really kind and inviting. These are good people. However, over the last couple days, I have heard some of the stupidest things imaginable.

The first day of class, we watched Kolja, an amazing Czech film about this man who ends up taking care of a little Russian boy. It is about the relationship between the two cultures during the communist period. After the movie, our professor a Czech woman, Vera, who specializes in gender studies especially women's rights asked the class if we had any questions about the different aspects of communism we saw in the film. Tim, a white boy with a backwards hat, hot pink polo popped collar and all raises his big douche hand and asks: "So, are all Czech women promiscuous?" All his bros laughed, because yes the main character of the film slept with two married women. But, as for Tim, Mr. Living-the-American-Frat-Stereotype, waited for our Czech teacher, who was no doubt deeply offended, to respond. She let him have it and all his friends took offense. Why on Earth he would ask such a question bothers me to my very core.

At the National Museum, a few of my friends and I were talking about Vaclav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic. Shanelle mentioned to us that he was nominated for the nobel peace prize twice.
"So was Hitler," Matt mentions to her.
"Yeah, but was that before or after the war?" Shanelle asks. We all pause for a moment.
"Hitler died at the end of the war." Matt calmly reminds her.

Today was a special meeting of students to learn some Czech bases. Everyone promised they would show up, but of course a handful weren't there. Mainly, the sorority girls that live together. We thought nothing of it until the end of class when one of the frat boys mentioned that they had called them complaining that they had locked themselves inside their apartment and needed someone to come help them out. Needless to say on the metro home, my friends and I laughed quite heartily.

Sorry that there isn't more about Prague in here. It's still beautiful....in case you were worried.