Brno Highlights

Brno was great to get a different perspective of the Czech Republic, outside of the big city of Prague. My favorite academic experience was by far visiting the Roma museum. I learned so much about the Roma people, and the tour guides were truly amazing people. They gave us all books as gifts for coming, and they were so passionate about teaching people about the Roma that it was inspiring to me. I learned so much and had a really good time here with the group.

            I was surprised by the fact that the Roma people are so ostracized in the community and live in “ghettoes” outside of the main part of the city. It is interesting that after all this time the geography is still this way in Brno. It’s sad that life is so isolated for the Roma people, including their living conditions.

            As weird as it sounds, my favorite extracurricular activity was probably being able to catch up on my laundry. It had been two weeks and I had so many clothes I needed to wash! We have been extremely busy so I really appreciated some down time on our free day to get to clean my clothes so I could have fresh clothes to wear! It was definitely worthwhile to take the time to do that while there was some free time here.

            One of my favorite restaurants of this trip was here in Brno and it was called Adria. I went there two different times and the first time I ordered tortellini with spinach and the second time I ordered a veggie salad. Both were delicious and super affordable! The tortellini ended up being only 6 American dollars and that included a soda as well. Everyone who goes to Brno needs to visit this lovely restaurant!