Flat as a pancake

Hi, i'm still alive here in Poland.

The last few weeks have been a little hectic at work, since we are preparing a lot of things for conducting workshops with suppliers and things like this. Now we are reaping what we sow, since the workshops actually gives us quite a good output so far. It is great to have this opportunity to learn new sides of how business could and should be conducted in areas completely foreign to my studies - tak kopattesalve!

This weekend we said goodbye to the most experienced guy in the department, Andrzej had been here more than 10 years. Of course the goodbye was a splendid party in Warszawa last Friday, and oh my god can my department dance - i should say so! Due to his departure, i will have a few new responsibilities which i am looking really forward to. Spoiiiing!!

Last weekend Ewa from the PGP program was visiting, she is in Denmark for ½ a year right now. Since she is from Warszawa she could show me lots of great places that i would never have found myself. Now i know all the good jazz-clubs in my city, and i know at least one part where i shouldn't go alone ;)

Also, i went out in the summer weather to see the surroundings of Warszawa. First to some old castles and things like this, but most importantly i went just to see the polish countryside. Actually it is really nice - not too many extremely poor villages where i was. Mainly it looked somewhat like Denmark - flat flat flat, with large fields of wheat and stuff like this. Actually i really like it, only problem being the bottles and all sorts of trash in many places.

This weekend is a long one, so i will go to Kazimiers Dolny which should be a really special place. It is fairly close to Lublin, so i will probably go there as well since i have 4 days.

Oh, and i bought a guitar. I was tired of not having a guitar here, so i figured that i could spend a little on this - pure life quality. It's a Yamaha APX500, look here for more details. Well, i guess my neighbours will kill me in the long run for this. Ewa introduced me to her friend Maciej, and he went with me to find this nice piece of wood. We are probably going to jam a little in the near future ;)

If you are in to (good) music you should check out Dżem, a good old polish jam band (dzem = jam). Find songs like Wehikuł czasu and Whiskey on youtube and start there... but don't ask me for translation! They have sort of a special position in Poland i have come to understand - the singer died in 1994 (yeah, before CK - so he is waaaaay cooler), and many of the songs are about his life up until then - so the band is really legendary here.

I'm looking forward to a few days in DK, even though i don't have too much time there. Still, just home to see the gigantic growth of the nephews... who can walk, who can talk, who can walk and talk, and who is still just a baby.