The train ride to Olomouc took about 3 hours. The teachers, Marketa and Malvina, who are about 30-ish and very very nice. They went with us, and had made all of the arrangements. It was nice to have someone else in charge so we wouldn't have to worry as much. Anyway, we arrived to Olomouc and I was pretty unimpressed. The city looked very "communist." (Marketa uses communist as an adjective to describe the architecture--or lack thereof--of places. For instance, when she met us at the airport, she said it was new and better than the "old communist block of lead," she said that the rickety old train car that she thought we were going to ride in was a "communist train," and our dorm in Olomouc was another "old communist block of lead.") Anyway, we
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