It's very nice to be Czech in Nebraska. As there are around 10% people with Czech heritage here, they are still very interested in the Czech Republic (but mostly they still think of it like Czechoslovakia). This week there was Czech week on campus. They released Czech movies (Dobry vojak Svejk, Cesky sen), had some presentation about living in the Czech Republic and the Czech Beer festival where you could drink Czech beers (Pilsner Urquell, CzechVar - American brand of Budweiser Budvar, Kozel, Radegast).
Today, the Czech week ended with the Czech Language Foundation banquet. This foundation supports the teaching of Czech at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Otherwise, there couldn't be any classes of Czech without this support and private donors. However, there weren't just stuff related to this foundation. We saw some music performance, Folk Dance Presentation - one couple in traditional Czech costume (kroj) danced Polka, but the did it very well in way I haven't seen it before.
For the celebration of Czech heritage came to Lincoln Jaroslav Kurfurst, ambassador from Czech Embassy in Washington. He had very good presentation about Czech-American Relations and had couple right points. I wanna pinpoint especially one - when I see this enthusiastic people trying to keep their Czech heritage and it's traditions and when I see all the stuff they do, I'm really PROUD TO BE CZECH!!!
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To learn more about Svejk, visit SvejkCentral. There is also a new English translation.
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