AMERICAN all the way!!!!

So in my Czech language class we had a new teacher because our normal one was out of town for the week. This lovely new lady was from Poland and her English was questionable with a stutter. She was going around the room and we were reading the answers to our homework. When it came time for me to read my line I did my best attempt to pronounce it correctly. My teacher gives me this funny looks and says "Where are you from". Obviously I answer " America, North Carolina" and then she goes "Oh well you have a poor Russian accent." All I could do was look at the women and laugh. As did the rest of the class as they were saying why the Hell would an american girl from north carolina have a russian accent? This shows that they are only having us do the work and not really teaching us the language. I can write the language fine but speaking it is a different story. The word for water is simply Voda and I have attempted to order water and received fried potato dumpling. Any time I say any thing in Czech the person at the store tries to answer English. So I guess the lovely teacher has figured out my problem with the language ... I don't have a good Russian accent. Oh life makes so much more sense now.