January 3, 2007

new years

another year starts and new resolutions have to be made. here are mine 1. leave poland as soon and as fast as possible. (and i don't mean for a vacation) 2. get in shape 3. start taking life easier ( there's no point in getting angry at polish politicians it's not their fault that the majority of the people who vote in this country make the choices they do) i am really curiouse if the minister of education's newest idea is going to go through and if it does what will come out of it. he proposed that we hold a referendum in which the polish nation will answer three questions. 1. should uniforms be made obligatory in schools 2. should we have "zero tolerance" in schools meaning that the difficult youth will be put away into special schools. 3. should a curfew be imposed for all minors.:) the results might be interesting  i couldn't have spent new years better then i did this year. it wasn't the place that made it so great, nor the weather that actually managed to suprise me cause it snowed, but it was the group of people that came for it. there is actually no one that i would rather see more then those 3 people that i shared the floor with in prague. the only problem is the side effects that the trip left over. first of all that awfull feeling that was left over when everyone went back home and i realised that they live so far away i probably won't be seeing them in a while (not to say that there is a mighty good chance that we won't see each other again unless we really want to and plan it) second, i'm still trying to catch up on the sleep and energy i lost during the trip back. hey i'm getting there, today i felt as if i ran the marraton but that's much better then the feeling of being hit by the train that i felt yesterday. the trip was worth it and i would repeat it again. the waking up at 4 30 am on the 1st of january, the breakfast in a mcdonald at 9 am in krakow and the lonely trip back home( had to get on 5 different trains, run in the pouring rain up and down a flight of stairs to catch the last train home at 8pm.)
 as for new years itself we got to spend it quietly in a town in the south of poland called zakopane. the people there are specific. they have they're own clothes, customs, way of being and talking. a very big part of poland goes down to zakopane or the nearby towns and villages during the winter breaks to skii.

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