Finally!

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I finally have internet connection in my flat! After many frantic gestures and phrases in broken English and Polish, I managed to get the wireless password from my neighbors. So, welcome to my travel blog.


After only a few days in Wroclaw, my employer, Speed School of English, whisked me away to teacher training in Gliwice, Poland - about 3 hours away from Wroclaw, by train. The other new teachers in Gliwice are a lot of fun and I am sure we will do some traveling together in the future. But after spending so much time in Gliwice, I started to forget that I didn't live there... So it is nice to be back. Here are some pictures of the people and sites in Gliwice (pronounced "Gli-Veet-sa").

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Photos

Gliwice
buildings down a side street

Gliwice church
One of many churches in Gliwice - I'm sure it had a shrine to John Paul II in it somewhere...

Gliwice flat
This is what a lot of the flats in Gliwice look like. They are complete dumps on the inside.

fountains near farmers market
On my way to shop at the farmers market in Gliwice, I would often stop at this park

Jewish cemetery in Gliwice?
All the headstones were written in Hebrew and the date of death was 1945 - Perhaps a Jewish cemetery? Not sure.

They still love JPII
many posters of JPII throughout Poland.

Quaint park
Park near the flat I stayed in Gliwice and the church I liked to walk around

colorful building
Obviously this was post-commies

Adam, Poland's only great poet
Big statue of some poet named Adam.

Gliwice flat gardens
Many high-rise flats in Gliwice off-set the urban feel by giving each flat a small plot of land to cultivate how they see fit.

Gliwice friends
Nadine (21-Scotland); Narina (24-Canada); Nina (Gliwice)

me and drunk hobo
Hobo who kept buying everyone rounds; Chelsea; Nadine

Metal heads
Georgina (25-England); Damien (34- Canada/England)

Matt rescues me from Hobo
Hobo; Matt (31-Canada); Chelsea

Comments

[Carol Zuegner]

Great to see the blog
Chelsea, I can tell this is going to be a fun blog to read. It's great to see the neighborhood and the city where you are.

[Rick]

Jewish cemetery
Hi Chelsea, great photos. I don't understand how to use this blog but will figure it out soon. The cemetery with the red stars is a Russian cemetery, or a communist-based cemetery. Have fun!

[Szymon]

Cemetery
The writings on the headstones are not in hebrew but in russian.This is a cemetery for russian soldiers who fought and died there during the fights vs germans in early 1945.