Opole
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POLSKI: "Nim dokonasz wyboru wolnosci, dokonaj wolnosci wyboru (...)" ENGLISH: "Before you make a choice of freedom, make a liberty of choosing ...
Cottbus - Opole
Drove into Poland early next morning, got stopped at the border and had to wait to the side for our passports to get checked and Cy and Ants van got checked by sniffer dog, they must of thought they looked dodgy as we got left alone. Had our first ...
Where do I begin?
... family house during the fifth year of your studies is a definite failure", and I totally agree with her. Except for that, Opole [my hometown] had become too small for me. I`d had that impression for a while already, that living in this city makes ...
The adventure begins...
POLSKI: Dzis jest dzien, w ktorym rozpoczynam moja przygode. Jeszcze siedze w pizamie na lozku, jeszcze mam kilka rzeczy do zrobienia, ale za kilka godzin wyruszam. Ile ja przeszlam, zeby dostac ta prace! Proces rekrutacyjny nie nalezal do lekkich, ...
home, (not so) sweet home
ENGLISH: I came home about 2 weeks ago. And through the whole time I have been running around doctors, doing some routine tests. Unfotunately, they revealed something I would have never expected. I`ve got a disease that I will have to deal with for at ...
OMG I am leaving SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... travels. I`ll decide in a moment whether I`m going to put just dots on the map or leave it as a draft until I come back to Poland in October. Yes, I`m going to stay in America for almost 3,5 months! Madness... Anyway, I`ve got a few things to do before ...
My new home
... Sunday following the teacher induction a group of us visited the village to get a taste of what it was like in Poland in the sixteenth century. The small houses were quite attractive, although I found the 16th century wooden church the most fascinating ...
Winter arrives at last.
... , instead of a white one. Our two week winter break began in late January, and to commemmorate it the skies froze over and Opole was once again blessed with some snowfall. This continued for two days, after which the clouds parted allowing me to get a ...
Prayers for Poland
ENGLISH: My dearest international friends, a tradegy happened to my country yesterday morning. 96 of most important people of Poland, including the president with his wife, as well as one of the former presidents, many ministers, the owner of the Polish ...
The Alderton boys, tearing it up in Poland
... kind on the Saturday morning as I boarded a train to Wroclaw to meet them at the small airport. However, given their short time in Poland I wanted to show them a little of the city, so we put their luggage in a locker at the train station and made for ...
I`m doing it again!!!
This entry is an actual email I wrote to somebody, but it came out so well that I decided to edit it a little bit put it here as an entry. I hope you won`t get mad, darling. I am home at the moment, have had the busiest time ever lately. It`s been soo ...
Brothers reunited in... Opole?
... jacket potatoes. He enjoyed it and so did we. In return he gave us a few drinks of Zubrowka, a bison grass vodka, local to Poland. He mixed with apple juice, which seemed strange but turned out it was delicious. We enjoyed it so much later on we bought a ...
losing the voice
We arrived to Opole and it started snowing - finally! I already lost my voice in Milan because of laugh, literally I couldn`t speak. Zuzka arrived with me so we enjoyed together her stay in ...
over the hills, so far away...
We left Opole a bit delayed, but in good moods. I was courious what to expect from Croatia and how would be my 5th Youth meeting with brothers from ...
time for another reunion
... from camp Anne - Ania Smirnova. I hadn`t seen her since end of the camp, August 2005! She had to get visa to get to Poland, spent 12 hours or so in coach etc, etc. Fair enough. I arrived to Elas` appartment around 11 p.m. and went to bed almost straight ...
Kinga Freespirit
It has been a year since Kinga Choszcz aka Freespirit has gone on the white camel to another world... She has been hitchhiking with her partner Chopin for 5 years, literally all around the world. The last continent - Africa - Kinga decided to visit with ...
reggae concert+theatre+zoo+museum=fun
... grew up in South Arabia and Middle East but has been living in London for 9 years where`s lots of Asian people. In Opole though everyone was looking at her like someone totally different, becase she was different. I hope she didn`t feel too unconfortable ...
They speak English! What would you like to drink?
... our curiosity, thee was a bunch f guys that eve in the club, I would say there were more guys than girls! As it`s usually in Poland, there were also a few drunk thugs, but I`m kinda used to it, despite the fact I hate them. We had a nice night though, ...
Fun with the Family
... thanks to a pleasant conversation the trip seemed shorter than the four hours that it lasted. There is no better moment for me in Poland, than when I see my brother for the first time. He always smiles in a way that makes me feel the strong bond between ...
crazy times in my home town
After day, night and day spent in Krakow, exploring the Wawel castle, Kazimierz, main market square etc., we went to Opole. My mum was trying to make feel my friends very welcome and I think they liked her. We were so tired that nigt tho, that we wnet to ...
A Day to Forget
"Everything can change in a blink of an eye, so let the good times roll before we say good-bye," sang Mary Chapin Carpenter. Ain't that the truth… Things did change in a blink of an eye and I had to leave my brother’s place this evening. All ...
Happy 1st Birthday to Maciek!!!
You'd think that I’m on vacation or something… I woke up for a moment around 8 a.m. but felt so groggy and tired that, to Tymek’s chagrin, I went right back to bed and slept until 11 a.m. I guess my body is still adjusting to the time ...
excitement up to Zenith
... `t seen my babyczka since September of 2005 and couln`t wait to meet her. Because it is pain in the arse to get to Lodz from Opole, and it takes minimum 4 hours, I had to get up early. I didn`t complain though and at 8:04 was already in my train going to ...
getting more and more excited
I barely couldn`t sleep last night. I knew I had to wake up about 6 a.m. and go to the railway station. I was sitting in the train for 3 hours and smiling from ear to ear all the time:). First person that I was supposed to meet was my cousin Jacek. I ...
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