LONDON - the most expensive days of my life ;]

Oh yeah, finally I visited one of the biggest global cities, capital of global finances, banks, heaven for marketing, place where the whole world is mingled into one blender. What an experience! I went there with Mariona and Nicole. We stayed at the Central London Hostel, in the Bayswater, just nearby the Notting Hill.

The city is so infinite, the tube net seems to be as thick as spider's net. So much of everything. So much in motion. All the time. People passing You by without having a glance at You. Everybody in rush, peculiar rats race!

Eindhoven Airport - before check in.

Getting to London Stansted.

We arrived on thursday. Although the very flight takes only 40 minutes, the journey took us about 9 hours. We arrived to the hostel about 11 pm.

First meal in London - Mc Shit on the kerbstone.

The hostel turned out to be very nice place, people there were from all around the world (the biggest group were Aussies!). There was really nice atmosphere, and as the graffiti says: "The World is Your stage".

Below some photos of the graffitis (all walls were covered with them) and our room.

We had a 6 bed dormitory, with bunk beds - I slept on the top bed, it was sometimes hard to get there.

Friday: We had a small sightseeing tour, we saw Big Ben (yeah, it's huge indeed)Parliament of the United Kingdom in Westminster, London Eye, National gallery with Trafalgar Square, Picadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace

In the evening we went to the bar nearby, called Prince Edward. We had real fun over there - there was karaoke night. Believe or not - we sang three songs. No scrubs, I'll be missing you and She loves you. People loved us ! :D

Saturday: we went to the British Museum. It was great, the biggest library I've ever seen. And great exhibition of Africa and Ancient Greece and Rome.

The Tree of Life from Mozambique

The clothing made of bottle-neck wrappings

Sarcophagus

the library

Inside

In the evening we went to the club in the Picadilly Circus on the Regent Street, called "Cheers". Was very nice, great music, quite cheap... a little bit pushy and fresh guys.. but that wasn't a problem, we easily ignored them. It was nice night, although we had very sad experience - Nicole's jacket with some belongings was stolen and it took away the mood of partying..

Sunday: Mariona and Me went to Cheers to seek for jacket, against our hope and expectations it wasn't found. I hope the bastard who stole it will choke with milk soon! :

We used the opportunity and visited Soho which is nearby. Very nice hood full of expensive shops.

Monday: We visited St Paul's Church, Tate Modern Gallery (and crossed Millenium Bridge leading to the Gallery). It's a pity we couldn't take the photos over there, cause it was very impressive. We spend about 2-3 hours there.

Afterwards we went to see Tower of London and London Bridge. We didn't pay for the entrances, cause it was qutie expensive everywhere. I'll leave more precise sightseeing for later :) The Tower Bridge was great and the view from it was astonishing !

Tuesday: We were traveling again for 9 hours. It's rediculous that the fligh takes so short time and everything else last for hours! A little bit irritating. We're back to Lent finally.

Say "HI" to New Year with the lucky 7!

Party for V.I.P. (Very Isolated People)

ALthough it wasn't many of us - the party was very good !

I brought polish vodka Zubrowka.

We enojyed it, I must say :)

Best served with ice and apple juice :)

Wine or drink?

(because of the forbidden elements we couldn't show the original photo:) )

Alessandro prepared the fastest pasta I've ever seen - in twenty minutes he was ready with everything! Good Job Italian! :)

Combined Catalan & Greek forces :)

Deutschlaenders rulez !

drink my child, drink, it's healthy

:)

2007

Happy New Year.

May it bring lots of happiness.

For everyone.

Christmas in Poland

Like most of the exchange students I spent my christmas holidays at home - I went to Poland on the 23rd of December. Jpurney was realy terrible though - I was going by the coach, really tight and crowded (there were 3 babies around me, I thought I will just run crazy !). And the worst - the final destination wasn't my city - it was Silesia. The worst region of Poland - actually I felt like I arrived to Kazachstan or something... Thank God my father picked me up from this hell on earth and we went to my city.

I forgot not to eat anything for the whole week before christmas, because I was eating so much (as always) that put on weight good few kilos... ;) My granny prepared delicious typical polish food (this year without carp - actually I've never eaten that, we just passed it up this year.

I decorated the christmas tree and I love it ! Reminds me the childhood..

Reversely - I hate to take off all the glass-balls.. but that will be my father's thing (I won't be there).

This Christmas was more like Easter - no snow. WIthout snow it's not the same.

I hate the global warming. Should do something with that...

After Christmas I met with my best best friends - Dorothy (on the left) and Anna; Monika (on the left, licking her fingers after eating spanish meat ! :)) and Alexandra. I know these girls for many years and would never replace them with no othe people!

Also after Christmas Dorothy cut my hair - as always. I hate hairdressers. Dorothy always cut it jsut exactly how I want (although this time the result was a little experiment, but of my fault)

I also met with a goodfella - Martin. We enjoyed the menu in the texas style bar - really funny and original names of dishes. I think this guy is the only real person from the Lodz Uni I still keep in touch with. Peace man!

New Year's Eve? Party? I said no. I hate this day. My attitude? Fuck the NYE !

I'M 22 !!!!!!!!!!!!

HUUURRAAAAA !!!!

I'm 22 since 2 hours !!!!!! ;P

My sweet girls gave me beautiful gifts - Mariona gave me the bag I love and Veronica - sweet colorful cup and bowl which I was dreaming about in Lent (only mine mine mine, nobody can touch this !!! :) )

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I prepared dinner for my best friends from Lent and can You believe that we were reminiscing our experiences from kindergartens and primary school??? :D

It was very nice, my neighbours brought cake with candles !!! It was so cool to blow them, (especially because on our party on friday we forgot to put the candles into the cakes..:P)

WIll the wish come true...? :)

THANKS FOR COMING GUYS !!!!!!!!!!! :*:*

B-DAY PARTY in cafe Piecken / Hoogeveldt

First of all - WELCOME JORDI !!! Jordi (Mariona's Bro) and Mariona were the first people I met in Lent. Jordi came here in August with Mariona and spent few days in Nijmegen. We all remembered him ("cheeky boy"!) and were waiting for his next visit. And here He is - Jordi came on thursday for couple of days. Hope He will enjoy :)

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Friday was a very nice day.

Just when I got back home from uni I found marvelous boquet of pink roses on the table - THANK YOU LISA !!! Xxx

Long time ago I planned a birthday party with girls, who also have birthday on 10th of December (3 girls - it's amazing, because I've never met anyone who has got birthday on the same day what me). Ruairi joined us, although he is not erasmus he hangs out with erasmus people.

First photo: Monika and me, second: (from left) Mahal (Spain), me, Monika (Poland) and Joana (Majorca)

We didn't have to pay anything for renting the cafe - the owners had opportunity to earn extra money, so the more people the better for them - they even did the cleaning after party.

Monika and me bought pink wigs one week ago and we all had tiaras. Ruairi decided to have a wig too - he looked great ! :D

Joana, Me, Monika, Mahal and Ruairi on the top (all girls born on 10th of december !!!)

Party started at 9. for us - others came much later, around midnight it was really crowded.

We had small accident last night. Monica had all the birthday cakes in her room. Unfortunately she ost her keys, so there was no way to get to her room (nobody has seond key). The only reasonable (at that moment..) solution, was simply to break in. And so we did. Ruairi is really good kicker :D

yeah, remember don't tell dutch people to write anything in polish on your bday cake, they just don't get anything correctly. ;)

Well, we got the cakes, but the door is damaged. Hopefully Monica won't have any serious problems :( The worst in this story is that the keys were finally found (in the plastic bag with food... who would've thought it was there... :?/). Cakes were very good and well done!

Next year... repetition?

jak ja lubię obserwowac ludzi...

Siedze nad praca semestralna w pracowni komputerowej.
Chlopak na przeciwko prowadzac konwersacje z kolegami wlasnie pare sekund temu najpierw dłubał w nosie, następnie owa zdobycz spozył.

I to nie pierwszy raz widze cos takiego. Co najmniej dwunasty.
Ohyda!

Holendrzy to straszne swinie!!!!

UPCOMING EVENTS: B-DAY PARTY on 8th of december

BERLIN !!!!!!

Pass Auf Berlin - WIR SIND HIER !!!!!

Small Zuzia In the Big city of the Big Bears on The Streets and In the Middle of The City !!!!!!!!!!

Berlin is the part of the course "Society and Space"

On Thursday, 23rd of Nov. we woke up very early (I slept only for 3 hours), at 4am.
Due to some accident in Arnhem on the day before we had to take some longer way to Deventer (or something like that..). We were in Berlin about 2-3pm.
The hostel was very nice - in the restored old factory. It's called DIE FABRIK.
Anna and me shared a room with two nice dutch girls - Anniek and Roos.

Some works hard some are couch potatoes...;]


Yep! It was real factory before...

Anna and graffiti (didn't know that She's so talented ;D )

On thursday the weather wasn't too favourable. It was raining (for change:P).
Our teacher, Barbara Hooper (She's from L.A.) was our guide on the first day - she wanted to show us some parts of Berlin. She explained us some things bout Alexanderplatz,

then we were walking and walking in the rain, few times it turned out, that we took a wrong direction (I mean, Barbara took :P) and about 5pm we decided to finish that circus and we went to some bar.

On our way we've seen the World Clock: The bar we entered turned out to be a traditional Berliner bar.
We ate delicious german meals, having nice time with great company. Barbara was talking to us about everything. She's very nice and sometimes funny - she's amazed to everything what she sees. For example: it was raining, Barbara was walking with the maps in her hand.. suddenly she was very surprised, that all the papers are wet :
Or in the bar, I was taing photos with a flesh, Barbara suddenly asked: "Hey, people, where is this light coming from??" :DDD
She's cuuuute !!!!!

From the left: Anna, me, Barbara

The whole group: in front of Barbara - Vincent (from RU, helper), on his left - Tim(from Germany), The Dutch in the background.

Ok ok, on the next day the real drudgery begun!
We took lots of photos of the buildings in Berlin.
Let's have a look at some of them:

On friday night we went to some bar, which turned out to be some kind of coffie shop. We bought water pipe, with shisha inside (what the hell is that? Smelled like Mango, I tried it, but wasn't too delicious... what do people smoke it for????).

On Saturday we went to see REICHSTAG (Thanks to TIM !!!). It was INCREDIBLE !
We've been explained what all the buildings are by guide.

I've seen Brandenburgen Tor (1st time in my life, although I've been in Berlin twice... embarassing..I know ;]) .
We were wandering with Anna and taking photos. SOme of them below:


On saturday night (as the last one) we wanted to go somewhere for longer. But we could find anything. FInally, we split into two groups and went to some pub with dancefloor... Unfortunately it turned out inside, that it's Russian night !!! The music was horrible. We were some kind of attraction for germans, they could try their english with us ;)

On sunday we went with Anna to western part of Berlin, which I remembered from last year. It was very nice. We had some small sweet lunch in Kamps cafe.

Afterwards we went to climb Column of Victory which stands on the vast platz, Love Parade anually takes place right there. The view from top was astonishing !!!


Way back was nice, although we couldn't sleep too much.

Berlin was very nice but much more dangerous than Netherlands and much more cheap than Netherlands. It's weird, but I didn't want to go back to Lent. I rather wanted to go to Poland..Maybe because tough period is beginning? Exams..papers.. ehhh...

MISSION BERLIN: accomplished :D