Prague Journal

Monday, June 27, 2005.

Bruce has been having trouble with his allergies, so I used the occasion of a delivery of asthma inhalers and pills for lunch with Charlotte. With only another month to spend in Prague, I am already mourning our leaving. So I take every opportunity to see wonderful friends here and take in as much of Prague that I can in the short time left. Among the getting-ready-to-leave errands is dropping off clothes at the Sue Rider charity shop downtown and getting bus coupons for July.
Later in the afternoon I met Eunice at Ami’s for tea. Grace, a Nigerian doctoral student who has been studying law in Warsaw, has moved here with her husband and wants to teach law here. Unfortunately, I told her what she doesn’t want to hear: that her PhD from Warsaw will not get her very far at Charles University (the only law school in Prague). Charles University, the oldest university in central Europe, is like Harvard. They hire their own because none else are as good. Given that the instruction is in Czech, that is probably true. The only non-Czechs are visitors, many of whom are Fulbright professors, who teach occasional courses in English.

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