What I did yesterday…

First of all, I put this post in “Trips” because I’ve realized that even if I was still in Łódź, it was actually outside the city somehow.

The Western part of the city is actually cut off from the main city. There are lots of busses and all, but they have been “enlighted” themselves even before the revolution. That the living should be done somewhat outside the city, since there’s no gain to be 5 minutes away from your work, but live in a noisy environment. We (Romanians) haven’t understood that! Nor did we understand a simple fact - that many things nowadays can be solved just by sitting on your computer, in your home!!! And we are supposed to be good IT people… aycks!

Coming up…

I have 2 “big” posts coming up… but I think that I will delay the publishing for after-Easter, I guess. Various reasons. These posts will be related to:

1. The Skin-Affair
2. Abortion

Ankieta/Chestionar/Survey

I’ve got a mail from Agata, with a message from Monika, a student at International Relations Faculty.

She was asking foreign students to fill in a survey called Climate of Lodz “to see how international visitors (as You!) see Lodz after their staying in the city.”

I couldn’t help but send her some nice comments as well, after filling in the survey. =)

Pity for Czech People

I don’t know if they (Poles) thought about it, and I don’t know if the Czechs thought about it either. BUT

ŠKODA = Czech automobile manufacturer and one of the four oldest car producers in the world

SZKODA = pity in Polish (skoda, in Czech)

Not that nice when you see the cars in Poland, and then you think about ŠKODA, is it?!

Musical background: Sergio Mendes - Magalenha

“Western” Attitude

I was telling you yesterday evening about Western “Standards” in connection to our new laundry system.

Well… this morning I went back to the reception desk… told Marta (middle position between the reception people and the dormitory manager) about it, then we went to the dormitory manager. She kept on saying that the machines don’t work. Then htf?! do I wash my clothes?

I also told them that I used 6 PLN and that Dominique (the reception guy) put another 3 PLN.

Needless to say that the dormitory manager started to take the position of an electrical engineer… opening the coin-machines… taking cables out… and plugging them back in… asking me for 3 coins (?!?!!??! wtf?… she eventually went and got some coins on her own)…. then the machines didn’t start either…

Then Marta wanted to “put her hands on the matter”…

Mathematicians

This very last weekend I went to Krakow again. I came back. I waited for the 57 bus from the train station to the dormitory.

I had no ticket and so I hopped in the bus, and went to the driver to buy one.

A 30 minutes bus is 1.50 PLN.

I told him “jeden studencki bilet… trzydzieści minuty” and put 1 PLN and 50 grosze on the table near him.

He said something in Polish… I acted like I don’t understand.

He was going for his tickets… and I said “pfiu…solved!”.

He gave me back a ticket of 10 minutes and 40 grosze back.

Brilliant!

Shy patient

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

1st day of March/Spring

I wrote previously about how they don’t celebrate anything on the 1st of March.

I wonder if it has to do with the geographical positioning, because in Romania, from the day we’re born we celebrate the 1st day of March as the 1st day of Spring.

Here, they celebrate Spring on the 21st of March, as its astronomical separation happens now. It is today that kids don’t go to school, and go to some movie or museum, etc. And it is in their tradition to make natural-size people from cereal straws and let them flow on the rivers, as it symbolizes winter.

I still hang on to my idea that it is more beautiful in Romania, where you give flowers to young girls and small red-white threads. Much more soul-related, as we are Latin people ;)

POST SCRIPTUM

Iżabela has Polish Windows Vista!!!

Feminism in Łódź

Yesterday we’ve been to Ramzes. AGAIN! =)

But it was a very very long time since going there, and we decided to treat ourselves :p I think we all agree that the place has the best food for us. It’s not that expensive, and the food is almost all the time very tasteful. The only thing that we disliked was their Pizza. The other stuff was from “good/tasty” to “just perfect” and it didn’t go bellow that.

With all their poultry/beef/pork cousine and the French fries/grilled potatoes/rice as side-dish, and always with a cabbage and red beetroot… Yummy! And when you add two Tyskie or Pilsner to that… Perfect! :)

Now… we were sitting at a table, and not for the first time… On weekends, but most probably on Sunday evenings, the restaurants are almost empty. The streets as well. Just some “extreme-sports” people that were going to some clubs on a Sunday night, and, as always, getting back home drunk! :D (I just couldn’t help but mentioning that).

Ok, ok… I’ll get to that feminism that lies in the title!

Patio Restaurant

We’ve been trying out the Patio Restaurant, which would be like a cafeteria inside the university, where they also serve some hot meals.

But, I really don’t think that we will go for anything else, other than pizza.

So far we’ve had some cabbage with mushrooms and macaroni, in the same dish!!! Quite Ok, yet yucky! Then a snitzel with some smashed potatoes. Again, just Ok. Then some cooked mushrooms, with “frykydelka” - freaky! :p

But anyway… it’s not that the food is horrible, but if you take some meat and a bottle of water as well, you reach about 15 PLN. With 15 PLN you eat better at Ramzes, or at least the same!!!

So… until another pizzeria we’ll be tried by us, I think I’ll have pizza just at the Patio Restaurant on Wednesday, when I have a window between two courses, and on Thursday, after we meet with Piotr.