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Gosia (my friend from Krakow) :
on today’s test we had a breast made of silicon that lied on the table….the thing is that we needed to treat it like a patient…so i had to introduce myself and than talk explaining what i’m going to do
was wierd to say “good morning madam…i’m a medical student…bla bla…may i examin you?”
q: was there someone answering you???
i was really afraid that i will start laughing
it was a very silent and probably shy patient
“Happy Women’s Day!”
So today it was the International Women’s Day. Just Another day to celebrate women… but “just another day” is for us, Romanians.
Here, in Poland, it is like this: they have only the 8th of March, and even then not all (meaning the majority) the ladies get flowers, but they also have more days dedicated to… us, men!
How’s that? Because they do not have a fixed date for celebrating Men… One is in March, one is in April, one is in… who knows?!
And when you think about Romania it is more like 1st of March, 8th of May, and then you also have Valentine’s Day, which in case you don’t have a very very weird/special girl… she won’t give you any present on that day :D
And we have no Men’s Day!I just cannot put into words the amazed face that some had when I gave them flowers!
Probably the most “extreme reaction” was from Agata and Justyna - the coordinators of International/Erasmus Relations. When I gave them the flowers and said “Happy Women’s Day!” it felt like they forgot how to speak… or that the sky has just fallen on their head!
Almost like “oh no… the flowers are for us!… but why?!.. but… where do we put them?”
Probably you, my Romanian friends who read this, won’t believe this but they have put them in some water in cups! No glass-vases around… just cups! And it felt as if that was the first time that flowers stepped into the room =)
I can’t even imagine what they would feel like if they went to Romania between the 1st and the 8th of March with all the flowers around… with all the red-white threads… go mad probably!? =)
LATER EDIT
They do not carnations (”garoafe” in Romanian) that often because it is somewhat old-fashion. Very hard to find some, so eventually I gave up looking! On the 8th of March they offer tulips.
This is the 4th discussion that we have like this :)
Our Finnish mate also has a funny “obsesssion” about the upper locker… A couple of times we locked the upper one (has a handle from inside), but we didn’t figure out that there’s no key to open it from outside. Just a “key-holder”.
So… after we didn’t lock her out any longer, she was coming back home, and left us notes on the door: “Upper locker = freedom” because she was locking the door from inside! =)
She’s somewhat shy… and ill :( She is caughing most of the times… we think we should do something about her and act as “gentlemen”. Not that fun to have sick people around you, so we should take action ;)
We really liked her when she was a bit drunk and more talkative! :) Pssttt…Shhh… don’t tell anyone, but we have her “on tape”. For privacy reasons, I won’t put it online!
Anyway… GET WELL, SINI!!!!
Later Edit
She’s not that ill… she locked herself indoors because she wanted to catch up with Lost! :p
“Yeah… Skinhead!”
Today, at the university’s cafeteria, between two classes.
George bought a SONY DSCH2 and I was playing with it. George was in front of me at the table. Behind him, a nice Polish blond “face” =)
I was playing with the camera, zooming in, zooming out on this girl.
One of the guys that shared the table with this girl suddenly comes to us and yells something in Polish. We scared him with “In English, please!” and waited for his neuron to get out of the shortcircuit… and waited… and waited… and waited.
I apologize but Rux’s post is the post of the day! Hmm… In case she deletes it because of too many “F…..bad words”, it’s here as well :D
Info: Rux is an Erasmus in Kemi, Finland (January - April 2007)
and then he said: let there be Internet!
27 02 2007Motto: “Pinky, are you pondering what i’m pondering?”/”I think so Brain, but where are we going to find a monkey in a tu-tu at this hour?”
So…we’ve been trying to get this stupid internet connection here since we came, that is on the 12th of January!!! Needless to say we had been emailing our “tutor” here (the head of student union) a couple of months before arriving and of course she said it’s ok, you can get it in no time just have to make a “small” deposit of 300euros because we’re not residents, bla, bla… Ok…we got here, we head directly to the nearest provider (there are only 2, so…) we said we’re exchange, we would like to pay for an internet connection, we have the 300 euros, we have passports…
“yes, of course! it will take 3 weeks to open it.”
“what the fuck?!!? how come???(the lines/cables are already in the building, I saw that the first day we were here: UTP!!!UTP!!!) you know…you just have to switch it on or something…”.
Went across the street to the other ISP thinking we can surely get it faster: “it’s impossible without the Finnish social no.”. Went back to the first one: “ok, we’ll take it :D”
“Why don’t Polish people learn English so that we don’t have to learn Polish?!”
We had a first Polish lesson today, and with all the sh, shj, sz, etc. we were all (all = Romanians) finding it too funny and we were laughing-out-loud. At some point, George, with his “straight-forward the-hell-with-it” attitude, asked the question that maybe all three of us had on our mind.
Answer: “Well, you know…”
And while it’s ending was not that nice (”Then we won’t come to Poland the second time.”) is was highlighting a bit the stressful situation we find ourselves in. Having no communication with the Polish people in Lodz, it is hard to make this town a temporary home.
I’ll be in Krakow quite soon, and I’ll see if it is the same there as in Lodz.
At least today we found out that we were completely wrong assuming that Lodz is like the 3rd most developed/important city in Poland, after Warsaw and Krakow. Our Corporate-finance-management told us that in fact it is more like the 6th, even if it is the second considering its inhabitants. Therefore, the consequences!
“Miło w konću panią poznać!”
= “Nice to finally meet you!”
We had a quick meeting with Agata, and I was able to “show off” :D
We are still not sure whether it is OK with our new Erasmus coordinator, back home, to stay here for one more month, in order to sit the exams here at the usual time. We’ll see! We don’t have proper descriptions for some courses, so maybe we’ll go blinded.
I asked her if I can rent a bike in the city, but it seems like I’m the first to do so, so… maybe bye-bye Swedish pseudo-life.
Anyway, as for now we are officially WSHE students, and the list of courses looks like this:
- Organizational Behavior
- Sociology of Power
- Conflicts and International Negotiations
- Photography
- Corporate Finance Management
- Social Role of Media
- Public Discourse
All in all 33 credits, if I get to stay until the end of the semester. If not, I’ll shrink it down to 20-ish.
“Please, don’t be late!”
Agata (the Incoming Erasmus coordinator) has said this over and over again referring to today’s meeting and the feature gatherings =)
Felt like being in high school once again, but I know what about and why she’s talking like that ;)
“Uge” is huge! =))
“Ugi” is a transliteration in English of Łódź :p
Yesterday evening we wanted (actually NEEDED) to eat something after the whole nightmare trip and we thought “Ok, let’s go downtown and we’ll definitely find something good there!”
And we started to ask for some directions, we already knew how to get there, which streets to follow, but we didn’t know exactly where we are. And we didn’t want to take any bus or tram since it was already dark, and knowing when to get off from a bus, in the dark, it’s quite a thrill =)
But Marta was like “What? You want to walk all the way? It’s like one hour, one hour and a half… “
How can it be since on the map it says exactly 3.4 km?! :) Anyway, we ended up downtown in ~40 minutes, and that without having secure steps!
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