Blogs from Lesser Poland, Poland, Europe - page 67

so we arrived earlier today after a 6 hour train ride. second class. yikes. there really just is no way for you to get comfortable next to that many people, at least not me. we came to krakow to see auswitch tommorow, and mom pointed out that we were probably travelling on the same rails they took the jews, since many jews were taken from austria, where we left yesterday. that was a chilling thought. on a different note, people here are friendly, and lucky for us most know bsic english, since last time i checked my polish was about as good as my german. i swear if it weren't for diagrams we would be so hopeleslly lost. thank got for art school, yeah! also, it's cool here, seriously, i even needed a sweater today!!! it ... read more

Well today was pretty intense the amount of people that died at that concentration camp is unreal i dont how that was aloud to happen. We got to see the death wall where everyone was shot and the women had to strip down then were takin to the gas chamber and the men stripped down then were shot right there or takin to the wall. There was about 4000lbs of hair from everyone before they where killed so when they were incenerated it wouldnt smell terrible. This camp was nuts the amount of security they had there was retarted, 2 barb wire fences back to back and then the brick wall another ten feet away and the guard towers were right there so the people wouldnt get out at all, the prisoners that tried to escape ... read more

Hello all. Man this trip just keeps getting better. We got here and planned on relaxing a bit but its the Stranger hostels anniversary party. WOw. Soo free booze and eats all night. And not to mention Poland is dirt cheap. Definetly the cool est hostel ever. Love it. We went to this crazy lake quarry yesterday. Amazing water. Like mad Aqua colour and so deep and cold. The weather again is clutch. 30 foot cliffs to jump off. Mad biking trails so if we can find sone good bikes we'll rip it up. But wow. So anyways last night there was a huge party. Like huge. BBq and of course free booze. So we picked the right hostel. Love it./ Everyone is so nuice and i've met live 30 people. Me and Jordan drank like ... read more

its raining right now and theres a bunch of thunder and lightning. All this after it was 90 degrees the whole day. Everyone was sweating and we waited the whole day to go out. A few others just left to go to the school bar, but i decided to finally take a break from going out, my first one since we got here. Saturday was a wild day. We had to wake up early to be at the main square at 9am for a tour of the square and the Wawel Castle. Our professors ended up seeing one of his friends on the way and afterward she took us to this hostel/bar. The owner is her son-in-law. His name is Nathan, from Boston and he has like 3 hostel/bars around Europe. Businessman/entrepreneaur. So he showed us ... read more

Went to Zakopane with Mother. 2+ hours to get there. In the winter, Zakopane is supposedly the skiing capital of Poland. I had 2 chances to go to Zakopane with my class. The first chance I passed on because I was totally wiped out from a whole week fo Polish lessons, and just the weekend before I had been on the 20+ bus ride in from Estonia.. Not in the mood to travel far. Then I hear from the folks who had gone that it wasn't exactly enjoyable, more like a forced march up the side of the mountain and then a treacherous retreat from its icy slopes. Some older lady with the wrong shoes ended up sliding on her ass down the hill. No thanks. I don't like frostbite on my delicate parts. So that's ... read more