4612 class today was dedicated to the presentations for our oral history, and it was dominated by my groups presentation. as it went a half dozen of us wound up sitting down and talking to Pavel Hnát, the econ professor that lectured us last week. we divided the presentation fairly easily, each of us discussing points that interested us specifically. i spoke on the general feelings people had on the transition, the guy we spoke to was an academic meaning he had a little more insight into what was happening in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic than lots of people. but he had interesting stuff to talk about. overall i think our presentation went pretty well, (ill post my writeup as an addendum: day 29a, it is by no means a necessary reading to this dialogue), a girl who spoke with one of our tour guides presented after us. she focused more on the personal story, which was very interesting. i like that this assignment was so open ended, in that we could focus on who, and what we wanted. her presentation was interesting, and im sure she enjoyed the narrative more than she would have enjoyed the dry talk of command to free market transitional econ that i was into. i look forward to hearing about other peoples presentations in the coming days. we also got a chance to discuss our opinion on the dialogue overall with Harlow, it was nice to air our grievances and pile our lauds. also later this afternoon, ill go hunting for booty to bring home.
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