Blogs from Lesser Poland, Poland, Europe - page 68

today we went to this boring little museum thing for like an hour and then went out for drinks, we got our professor faaaaded, haha he was laugin his ass off. shit was sick. its still only like 5, so we'll be going out in a few hours. this is nonstop partying, fuckin 9th day in a row, we havent stopped drinkin since we got off the plane, im waiting til monday to take a break. i thought we'd at least stop for a day this week since class started on tuesday but yea didnt happen, anyway peep out some pics... read more

So on the 20th of June, my uncle Marian took Jeff and I to Czestochowa, where the black Madonna is. I'm not going to lie, we were a little scared to go with him because he doesn't really have the most easily-understandable way of speaking Polish. Nonetheless, we agreed that we'd go with him in his car, and it actually paid off. He knew exactly where to go, from the church itself, to the chapel, the church tower, and the treasury. Jeff and I both agreed that the treasury they had here was a lot better than the one at Wawel. The church itself was beautiful--probably the prettiest church I've ever seen. However, the actual black Madonna is covered by some piece of engraved gold, so you can't actually see it at all. I must say, ... read more

Well well well, it seems I've finally made it to an internet cafe. Not gonna lie, we've been on the go non-stop, so it's good to finally sit down and rest. We just finished up a delicious meal sitting outside in rynek glowny, Krakow's main medieval square - the biggest of its kind in Europe! Delicious grilled pork with mushrooms, peppers, and plums with chrzan, salad, and fries on the side. Helped that down with some piwo w sokiem, a cherry/raspberry flavored beer. So I'm still not totally convinced I'm in Poland, considering how easy it is to walk around a Polish neighborhood, grocery, or restaurant back home, but its sinking in more and more... Upon arrival, we were picked up by Basia and her husband Ignac. Basia is Kasia's grandma's best friend's daughter, and its ... read more

hey everyone i made it to poland. my bags were lost when i got here and my roomate and i were walkin around in dirty ass clothes for like the first day and a half. we went out to the main square here to look for clothes to buy but it was some polish holiday so all the shops were closed. luckily we got our bags right before dinner. we went out to a bar but were still pretty tired from the jetlag i guess. i slept for like 4 hours. got up went to breakfast, went to sleep, went to lunch, went to sleep, then dinner and one of the other guys flew in. we went out bar hoppin in the main square and served our polish sausages on some girls. i'll have some pics ... read more

hello friends, couple more days and i will be off to europe for the first time in almost 13 years. back to the motherland, but first some studying shall be done in poland, or will it become ho-land? not to be confused with holland, which will be kickin my country's ass in the world cup in 4 hours. i have procrastinated with everything as usual and tomorrow i must get the rest of the essentials and start packing cuz poland is gonna be cracking nahmean son... read more