some updates

First of all, the Christmas Market in Kraków is all setup, with Hungarian "kürtöskalács" (it's written in Hungarian!!) and "langosz" (written in Polish:P).

Today is our first official game with the university team. WE WON!!! I couldn't finish the game because I had 5 faults but it was okay for the last 3 minutes. We won with around 6-7 points so the reasult was close. I scored around 15 points, so I valuate myself successful haha :P I think it was a good game, next time on the 6th of December:) And thanks for Iwona and Kasia to come and cheer us!!!:)

So finally Emma and Martita are coming Friday, I'm excited, it will be so much fun for sure like all the time when we meet :P:P

My schedule so far...

6 Dec - Basketball game

9 Dec - Basketball game

11 Dec - going home

13 - 8am Databases exam (practice)
14 - 11am Kontrolling exam
(15 - Databases exam - if I fail on Tuesday)

16 - 9:45am Databases exam (theory - oral!!!)
19-23 Final Thesis, Research Paper for SAP, Int'l Management...

23 - Timmo is arriving :D

2 Jan - Timmo is leaving :(
4 Jan - going back to Kraków

5 Jan - Polish exam

6 Jan - Hilda and Jon are coming to visit me?? :D

etc,etc,ect,...

partying with my Polish friends...

...it's always lovely:) And responsible? :P

Iwonka, Kasia, Bear and me :)

Sunday - Plum Crumble

I made it. Alone :D I went to the sunday market only to buy plums cause I couldn't find them in the supermarket. Such a productive Sunday :)

butterflies

Also, today Iwona and me participated the Day of Museums in Kraków!! It was really really good and interesting. We went to
- Muzeum Zoologiczne : butterflies and shells
- Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego Collegium Maius : the building is astonishingly beautiful:)
- Muzeum Etnograficzne : Polish folk-art, lovely:)
- Apteka Pod Orlem : is about the pharmacist who helped the jews living in the ghetto

Collegium Maius

Hungarian street :)

- Podziemia Rynku - the underground museum, under the main square, the best!!!

some athletes and famous people donated their prices to the university

plans for February

Unfortunately, I cannot manage to go to Vilnius next weekend because of many school deadlines, forthcoming exams, final thesis, etc...
HOWEVER, due to the fact that I'll have only 2 exams in January and nothing to do in February, I'll make this trip for sure:) Moreover, I found really cheap traveling options!!!
So according to my plan...
Krakow - Warsaw -Vilnius - Riga - Tallin - Helsinki by boat OR Stocholm by plane - and coming back on the same way except that instead of Vilnius, I'd go to Kaunas (also in Lithuania).
We'll see, everything depends on budget and time:)
If you feel like to come with me, let me know ;)

Gdańsk and Sopot

where is the sea? right there:)

Solidarity museum - the entrance

our travelling group

Crooked House - unbalanced

Monument of Solidarity

I'm really glad that we made this trip to the other side of the country.. Despite the really long train way (15 hours) and some creepy guy, it was a perfect weekend:) 6 of us - Shane, Juliana, Shirley, Cory, Valentina and me - decided to travel together and I have to say, I really liked to travel with all of them:) Also, having an American, an Irish and a Canadian in our group was source of many funny moments and debates concerning English language :)

the world's wood longest pier

domino effect - Solidarity museum

We had so much fun... arriving to Gdańsk, Cory accidently stayed on the train so we had to wait for him until he got back with another train.. it was okay, cause we arrived there at 7am. Walking through the city reaching our hostel, we participated the current Independence Day! We got a lot of free stuff, balloons and windmills, and enjoyed the parade of old cars.

the pier from the old lightening house

Gdańsk is beautiful... completely different from Krakow, it's a mixture of Scottish, Polish and mainly German architecture. I know, originally it was Danzig, but still. I didn't expect that it gonna be so similar to Bremen... Walking in the fascinating old city center impressed all of us. I didn't know it before but the movement of Solidarity started in this city, so we saw a huge monument and also, the museum that made me think of those times in the past. In the evening we went to an Irish pub, where unfortunately couldn't drink cider beer, but a regular tyskie with syrup kinda compensated us. Moreover, some other (Northen) Irish guys in the pub were singing "interesting" Irish song :P

girls

it's soooo German :)

Sopot, the other city that we explored, is right next to Gdańsk, 17 minutes by train, and it was the city where we finally could enjoy the panorama of the see. The pier is the longest not only in Poland, but also in Europe (or the world?). We climbed the old lightening house, and took pictures of the strange house on the main street.

main street of Gdańsk

 Oh, and I have to mention our hostel that practically was a hotel :P We had 4 bed rooms, but the place was not crowded so we didn't have to share them with strangers. I've never stayed to a hostel like this that moreover was really cheap!

flower and Flora :)

Next trip? It seems we're going to Vilnius :D

first successes

welcome to Krakow

Today I ordered a pizza alone, in Polish :D Kasia and Iwona didn't help me (they couldn't anyway cause they were just keep laughing about me :P) and the pizza finally arrived so if anybody needs some help to order on phone in Polish, you're more than welcome to ask me haha :D

a cow on the car

Tomorrow (actually it's already today :P) Valentina, Cory, Shirley and I are leaving to Gdansk for 3 days!!!! It's going to be an exciting train-trip regarding the fact that it takes 15 hours to get there... whatever, we gonna sleep (or a bit study, too, in my case)

the view from Kopiec Krakusa

Here are some pictures from Kopiec Krausa that I loved so much :) I explored it when I had a lonely walk 2 days ago in Podgorze. Previously I was convinced that the whole district is scary but I have to admit that it’s completely not true.
So see you on Monday with the next post about Gdansk :)

Kopiec K. is from a distance

bridge for pedestrians and cyclists

Jumping...

...all the time, everywhere:)

in the airplane museum

in the park

at the top of koszciuski

in the Wawel

It's kinda hard to chose the best picture of the recent days cause there are soo many :) Most of them're already on facebook so I put here one more with all of us. Thank you for visiting me :)

Julien, our hero :D

 Okkay, finally I decided to post some exclusive photo on my blog but not on facebook :D Concerning my picture and the tree: I wanted to take a picture with Zita sitting on the tree but I had to realize I cannot come down and also, I cannot move away so Zita couldn't come up next to me...I guess she didn't even want it :P Also, suffering on the tree, a random turist took some pictures about me LOL it was more than embarrassing :D Hopefully he thought I'm just a crazy Polish girl :P The other picture with Julien...well, he was a hero and it's enough if WE know why :D

I have agoraphobia...

pretty girls

the general party pic w Orsi

typical

Orsi with strange face

letter to my friends

I'm on the 23th page of my Final Thesis, about to finish the first chapter out of 3. Still 27 - but preferably more  pages to go...
I'm getting really annoyed of writing and reading and writing and reading and...
My dear Friends, coming on Wednesday, HURRY UP cause you have to save me :D I'm too lame in the past days, sitting home and keep working on my thesis...
Come and let's start the party :D