Second trip to Krakow

First trip to Krakow

Sini Sorsa

LATER EDIT

without the sound delay here - http://www.trilulilu.ro/tataencu/d3614e4193e0a6

“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”…

Western “Standards”

This week, the laundry room got “upgraded”.

Instead of paying a deposit of 10 PLN at the reception desk… getting the laundry room key… washing our clothes… then getting back the deposit…

NOW you need to have coins with you… you ask for the key to laundry room… you put in your clothes… you put 3 PLN coins in some machines that control the electrical power to each washing machine…

& they are supposed to give you electrical power for 90 minutes, afterwards the machine stops.

My situation, this evening

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!!!

Complicated - please help!

It has to do with my departure from Łódź, Poland! Yes, it is weird to think about departure already, after just one month here, but… it is just how things go. May 20 - I finish with all my exams here, at WSHE. May 20, 13:25 - Catch a flight from Warsaw to Amman, Jordan. I’ll be there for 4 days, until May 25 This is where the split/confusion comes in: 1st option

May 25, 12:25 - Return to Warsaw, Poland and then Łódź and stay for another week in Poland… End of May - Return to Bucharest somehow (train and/or flight) from Łódź or Krakow

LATER EDIT a. After Xavier mentioned this option, I remembered that I haven’t look at connection from Budapest to Bucharest (I already knew that there’s one Warsaw - Budapest). And this is actually the best alternative to get to Romania for the option of getting back to Poland, from Amman. Taking a low-cost flight Warsaw - Budapest 13.15 - 14.25, then Budapest - Bucharest 20.00 - 22.15. About 60 euros in total. b. Stay in Krakow and then take a train to Budapest (crazy… it takes 11 hours) and then the low-cost flight to Bucharest. c. Stay in Krakow and then take a direct train (24 hours) to Bucharest.

Deal with some exams at my home university

2nd option

May 25, 9:45 - Land in Bucharest, Romania

Deal with some exams at my home university

Come on!!! Anyone… just help me with this! Any thought is highly appreciated - just add a comment!

EVEN LATER EDIT

Response from the Travel Agency:

Ticket fare, incl taxes: SEK4274 for sector Warsaw-Istanbul-Amman ( only
normal fare available)
and SEK2780 for sector Amman-Istanbul-Bucharest (low fare economy class)

[...]

A round trip ticket by Turkish airlines Warsaw-Amman would cost SEK6689,
due to lack of availibilty in cheaper class

Conclusion: 2nd option wins!!!! Thanks to all of you!

PS: It may be that I will return to Poland to have my summer here, so it looks good! =)

New page

I have added a new page Step1 - Uni.

It has some basic and clear information on how a university can enter the Erasmus Framework.

I will continue adding similar pages, which will be more specific since I know more about being an Erasmus student, in comparison to how you can get to be an Erasmus University.

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!