I have a feeling The French Cafe has become my second home here in China. I come here every day and every time I see some familiar looking faces from college or people I'm already friends with. The waitresses here know me too and it's funny how we have our English-Chinese converstaions. (I try to practise my Chinese with them while they want to practise their English when I'm here.) I usually come here after classes to talk on skype and spend some nice morning moments and then I drop by in the late afternoons. Also during the weekends I tend to spend here loooong hours. Probably once I start working I won't have that much time for it anymore but right now I can still enjoy my lazy Saturday. The atmosphere here is very home-like. ... read more

So yesterday I started the Chinese classes. A little bit boring but nice. I have to switch somehow to some slower way of studying as the Chinese teachers seem to take things very easy while the Polish teachers make you handle more than you actually can. Most of the students are Japanese and Korean. But lucklily there are also Europeans and Americans. Some of them look like New Age or Buddhism followers but well... it's China after all. The classrooms of course fulfill Chinese standards... three people sitting at the table that is supposed to be for two. Not to mention the moldy ceilings :) Yesterday me and a new friend of mine also signed up the contract to rent an apartment. It's a pretty tough thing to do here in China... Papers, photos, copies of ... read more

People here either do not speak English or they speak English this way... Good they at least added "please" at the end. (picture taken in one of the restrooms) *** Ludzie tu albo nie mowia po angielsku albo mowia po angielsku w ten wlasnie sposob. Dobrze, ze chociaz dodali "prosze" na koncu. (zdjecie zrobione w jednej z toalet) ... read more

As many people know, some time ago I was applying for the Chinese Government Scholarship. From the begining everything seemed that I wasn going to get it. Because I was too young, because it was for people with a higher degree... I tried anyway and well... didn work. I thought thats ok, that maybe its even better. My ambition got a little hurt but quickly I just forgot about it. A few months later, I got a call from my college that I got the scholarship. I wasn sure answering the question if I still wanted to go. I guess at that point I had not known yet what it actually meant. I thought though that everything happens for a reason and that maybe my life didn change its mind without a reason. And that maybe ... read more

Because New York doesn't only mean Wall Street, Times Square and 5th Avenue or a place presented in the show Sex and the City, today I went to see the Bronx. And well... there is not much to say. One hour by metro seems to be enough to move to a different world. A world in which you can see poverty and where the American dream unfortunately hasn't come true. PS.Tomorrow Miami. *** Poniewaz Nowy Jork to nie tylko Wall Street, Times Square i 5th Avenue czy tez miejsce jakim go ukazuje Sex w Wielkim Miescie , dzis pojechalam zobaczyc Bronx. I co tu duzo mowic... Godzina metrem wystarczy, zeby przeniesc sie do zupelnie innego swiata. Takiego, w ktorym panuje bieda i w ktorym amerykanski sen niestety sie nie spelnil. PS.Jutro juz Miami.... read more