Blogs from Pomerania, Poland, Europe - page 13

I volunteered for computer lab duty this afternoon so that I could update and catch up on e-mails. Yesterday was a completelly fun day. After classes in the morning the American staff (there are about 20 of us) took the train into the city of Gdansk where we could spend the rest of the afternoon. Once we got to Gdansk, I went of with a group of four others. Emily (my TA who is actually really annoying), Jennifer, Joanna and Peter. Joanna and Peter are brother and sister and both speak fluent Polish. We started off the day by going to the top of the tallest brick church in Europe. It was easily 1,000 steps to the top walkiing up this narrow winding staircase. The view was amzing at the top. After we went over to ... read more

So here is a map of Poland with a marker of where I will be: Still just playing around with this site and trying to remember HTML coding. It's too bad I skipped that class about building a website senior year in high school so often. Mighty Taco for lunch was a way better choice at the time though. Is there anyone who knows how to put this text under the picture Is there anyone who knows how to get the text underneath the picture instead of to the side? ... read more

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So this was the beginning of my week trip with my Marine Biology class to Hel and Gdansk Poland. Our trip was from March 9th-14th. After a late night of wine and painting with some paints we got from Tiger, which is a great store filled with cheap useless things haha, it was time to get up and go to the airport. This nice thing here is you can just hop on the metro and it takes you straight to the airport, almost literally inside of it. And the metro trains don't have any drivers, so it's like being on a roller coaster because the front of it is all glass so you can see into the tunnel. So you always see all the children and tourists up in the front seats, its pretty funny. Anyway, ... read more

Gdansk will be among the venues when Poland and Ukraine host football’s 2012 European Championship. A charming city it may be, but there is much work to do before it is ready for an influx of foreign visitors on such a huge scale. The first thing you notice on arrival in Gdansk, which along with its smaller neighbours Gdynia and Sopot makes up the Tri-City area on Poland’s Baltic coast, is the lack of infrastructure. There is no rail service to take passengers from the small airport to the city centre and the only road is a single lane, potholed strip which twice a day fails to cope with the rush hour traffic. I visited with three friends, including two brothers whose grandparents fled to England when the Poles re-took what was then the German city ... read more