Hotel Zlota Iglica Raciborz

... had morning meeting. Every morning (with the exception of travel days) we start our day with a morning meeting. The promotional team representing the city will discuss the day's schedule and add a fact or two about the city. Then various people and/or groups or representatives (i.e. the show team, the music intern, or the poetry club creator) will give an announcement. Today our city runners (2 students that make the morning meeting order and take notes) decided that each ...

... of my internet status there, I want to leave you all with some reading material :) I'd like to post 2-3 posts tonight, each about a different topic. And this is only if time allows me to do so.

First I want to write about our experience to Auschwitz. Wow. That left me in a huge tangle of emotions as it did the rest of the cast. I'm not quite sure I feel comfortable writing about this experience at this time. I'm not sure that there are words to ...

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... a few minutes here as the doors were locked, but there were some strange statues of characters from Polish folklore in the area which gave us something to laugh at. Agnes partner Michael joined us after lunch (known in Poland as dinner) for a few hours cycling in the nearby countryside. While this was probably a boring run of the mill cycle for my three hosts, I found it really fantastic. Over nearly three hours we cycled through beautiful pine forests ...

She said: Wall after wall of faces, lists too long to count of names, piles of glasses, mounds of hair, stacks of suitcases, heaps of clothing, mountains of shoes, even pots and pans. That is what's left of the people killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Our visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau brought to the surface feelings I have never encountered before about people I didn't even know. I have learned about the Holocaust my whole life, seen movies and read many books. I have even heard survivor's ...

... we headed for the Jewish quarter where we'd seen some nice looking restaurants and bars yesterday and found somewhere to eat. We then headed to some bars we'd seen advertised in a guide book - one of them was allegedly a gay bar but seemed fairly 'main stream', below it was a club that had lots of memorabilia from days passed.

... were destroyed by the Nazis before it was liberated on January 27, 1945, but there was one small one at Auschwitz I that gave you a chill of eeriness while standing in the first large room staring up at the vents where the Zyklon-B gas was dropped into the room. Then you step into the next room and see a replica of the furnace. The second camp was constructed nearby because this crematoria could only burn 340 bodies a day. Auschwitz II had 4 huge ones. By the ...

... been decorated 'til that morning. I got the hits-like-a-bulldozer Czech liquor, "slivovice." Vera got a lot of clothes and whooped big each time. Young Filip had only wanted pots and pans and such for the apartment he shares with his girlfriend. Jirka received a shirt from Filip which read (translated), "FISHING brings a satisfied marriage," and he chuckled and immediately put it on. I stayed with the Kolinova's a day and a half more, and Jirka didn't take off that ...

... separated by a gorge wide enough only for the road? Did giant starfish arms and plesiosaurus necks overflow from a salty inland sea? Were the hills giant marshmallows upon which the cars could get where they were going only by bouncing from one marshmallow to the next? No; the scenery was blue sky above black trees without leaves above white snow above large flat fields. I was alone on the road, and cars came seldomly. And guess what happened then. Did Marta Manczak ...

... perfectly. The countryside around me was agricultural and the road was in poor condition, narrow and lots of potholes. I arrived in Kutna Hora and checked into the campsite about 6pm, only 77km today. I splashed out on dinner in a nice restaurant and got dumplings as the side order. They came on a small plate and looked like slices of a pale bread roll. They were very nice, perfect with the fried chicken and veg. Back in the campsite the Czech Rep v USA ice hockey match ...