The robe....

Dzien dobry, Jak sie masz?

Yesterday we were out partying again.....First we went to a place called Paparazzi, a nice pub...after that Maniana which is a latino-club and finally we went to Datona (club). It was a great eavning with lots of beers:) The picture is from Datona....

So I have spent the whole day feeling sorry for myself....but I managed to travel to a medical store through....I bought a laboratory-robe...it´s impossible not to look sexy in it!:) I had to buy some latex-gloves to...so now I´m fully equiped:) We had lunch in a shopping-mall....a huge steak with three different sauses...french fries a a huge orangejuice...nice! Expensive...but I needed that today. So now I think I will do some serious chilling....a white wekend for me...I think it´s time to start preparing for chemistry and anatomy....just have a quick look in the books so that I know what they are talking about on monday. The professors speaks poor english as I have mentioned before....Actually looking forward to monday´s classes...The anatomy professor is very strict I have heard...so I´m a litle bit worried about that...but it´ll be fine:)

Until next time...do widzenia! Na razie!

Kracow

Jak sie masz!

I have spent my weekend in Kracow....so I´m going to write something abot that:)

The buss picked us upp at 7 am and drove us for three hours to Kracow on the bumpy polish roads. I must say that Kracow is a much nicer city than Wroclaw....the houses are i9n better shape and there are a nice atmosphare....We began with a guided tour (lots of churches)...after that we had dinner in a restaurant (all of us) ,rather tasteless.....But after freshing up in our hotelroom we hit the town....We went to a bar called Paparazzi first where we drank beer...after that we went to a club called franco (or something like that)....that was a great club....Clubs here in Poland are better than the ones I´m use to back home....We were woken up around 10 am after ust a couple of hours of sleep to find that we were late....everybody were allready outside...we did´nt get that information. So we went on yet another guided tour smelling like the club we attended the night before:) After that we had some time on our own....we ate pizza and fell asleep on a lawn....3 hours in the buss home and now I have got a good sleep. Oh...almost forgot....we visited a synagog...haha...all men had to wear a jewish hat (do not know the name). We looked rather funny...the pictures are from my cellphone....of caurse there are more pictures ,but I have´nt bathered to collect them from everybody.

Dzien dobry!

Hello...and jak sie masz!?
Today has been a very nice day....after bilogy-class I went to the gym and worked out...nice. After that I fell asleep for tree hours on my "bed"(more like a table). When I woke up I felt quite fucked up. But the reason why I´m posting this message is that I want to tell you that I will go to the "sensation white"- party in october. Aparently (spelling?) whis "party" is really cool....everybody is dressed in white and there are thousands of people...It´ll be sick...thinking about ordering tickets tomorrow....I had fierce teacher the other day....damn....head of the biology departement....We sat there and tried to hide for three hours strait...but what we did´nt know was that she could smell fair...so of cause I had to go up to the black board and solve a problem which she knew I could´nt (thats why she put me in that situation). But we were all "killed"...thats her way of teaching. Afterwards she told her colegue (in polish) that we were stupid:) So it´ll be interesting having her as a teacher in Biology which is one of the two most difficult subjects the first year.....So I am shivering...and will continue doing so until I pass the exams or get sent home as many others before me. But I am still positive...if I manage to pull through this first year I know I will become a great doctor.

Do widzenia!

Bananaflies

Ok...my room smells,looks and feels(?) like shit! We live two persons in a 19 square meter room...so you can only amagine what it looks like after a while. I have given up at this point...it´s not worth the trouble cleaning up after me....cause ten minutes later it will look the same. I just discovered that we have about 1000 bananaflies in our trash-bin. I got goosebumbs...it´s discusting! I want to move out of here as soon as possible...fortunately we may be able top land an apartement soon. Let´s hold our fingers crossed (and toes)! So...it´s 24 degrees outside and I started with the biology-calsses today. It was all right......we´re going to have a very feared teacher in a couple of days...I´m not looking forward to it...but I´ll proberbly live....I think:(

Do widzenia!

Golnaz birthday

Hello again!
Yesterday we were out partying again...this was the third day of party in a row. And next weekend were going to Kracow to party some more:) We visited a new club (new to us) which was great...very crowded and nice in every way. So this morning I was sleeping very heavely when ebba and hanna woke me up to go sing for Golnaz (it was her birthday today). After eating cake and playing happy birthday on the guitar I fell asleep again and woke up around 5 p.m.....nice. We took a taxi to the center and ate at a restaurant in which the chief was swedish...he had overheard us talking the day before at pizza hut and told us that we could order meatballs and applecake at his restaurant. But we ordered oxefillet...the restaurant was great and the food even better...the apple cake witch vanilla sauce for dessert was increadibly tasty. So now I am terribly filled up and looking forward to sleep. A nice day today....

Do widzenia!

Nights on the town in Wroclaw

Hello...was out partying last night. Theese pictures are from the previous weekend....anyway. The clubs are great...and of cause very cheep....entrance is about 25 kr....The center of Wroclaw is the place to be at night...there are´nt anything else really...but in the center we have found som great places. I´ve just got up, taken a shower and now I´m heading to a shopping-mall...Some brunch would really hit the spot right now............oh...the people in the pictures are Casper (from Falsterbo), Golnaz (Stockholm) and Ebbs& Hanna (Göteborg).....haha...We bought roses before we went in to a club...people looked funny at us....:)

Do widzenia!

Gym

Hello...Today I visited the gym for the first time. It is located about 20 meters from the main entrance. So there is no excuse not to go....The "caretaker" which lets us in (for free since were students) is a bit annoying from time to time it seemes. He can decide that you aren´t welcome one day even if there are people in the gym...and the next day you get in. But the problem with that lies mostly in the fact that we are unable to proove that we are students...in october we will recieve a studen card. The gym was small and rather primitive...but it will work I think.

do widzenia!

Dien´ dobry!

Whazzzuuuuuuuup?!
I feel much better today...Tomorrow I will be as good as new. Been to chemistry and polish-classes today. Jiha! Just wanted to say that the sun is shining for the first time since I arrived...great success! Some guy showed me a webpage yeserday night from the medical university of Wisconsin....it was a couple of clips from an educational dvd in anatomi. They dissekted cadavers! That will be rather interesting...but I won´t be doing that any time soon I think....but at some point during my first year I believe....if I manage to stick around:) I really have to practice my polish skills now...right now I truely suck at Polish...so I figured it would be a good idea to do some reading in that area. Chemistry is rather easy in the pre-courses...so I´ll just do a fast readthrough and I´ll be fine. Can´t wait until october actually, when we will start doing some REAL studying.

Byebye

Chemistry

Hello again.
So, it´s a new week of the pre-courses. Topic...chemistry and polish. Poloish is still hard...but I´ve got 2 years to learn it...so hopefully it´ll work out fine. But chemistry......it seemes like we will get more things to do our selves ....opposite from physics. But still....it´s rather basic stuff...so I´m not drained in homework.....I´m still ill....my cold just won´t give in....My throat feels a little bit better than yesterday though, which is good. Maybe it´ll be fine tomorrow. Can´t wait until I´m well so I can beging working out again:)

Do Widzenia!

Pizza!

Hello again.
I did´nt have the energy to make dinner today since I have been cleaning my room....So I ordered a pizza to my room. 10 zloti! That´s 25 kronor! Home delivery pizza for 25 spänn! Haha! And I must say that it was delicious! Nothing wrong with it....the place I ordered from delivers pasta-dishes to....maybe I´ll try one of them tomorrow:)

Some of my fellow students

The first week...some thoughts

Hello.
Well this first week has been rather confusing I must say. Suddenly I´m in a different country where nothing is anywhere close to Sweden. The standard of living is much lower, the food is bad (even in the stores) and the people are strange:) Don´t get me wrong..It´s ok...but It´s a huge differance.

Now I attend the so called "pre-courses". So I am not an official student of Wroclaw Medical University. But I am guaranteed a place at the university. The official semester starts the first of october. I attend physics and polish classes this week....nex week It´ll be chemistry and polish and the week after that biology and polish and the last week this month will be dedicated to only polish. The pre-courses suck I must say. You just sit down in a chair while some professor with a beard talks for 3 hours straight. And you don´t really learn anything since he only scratches the surface of the problems. This week we have been "tought" one year worth of highschool physics. When we talk to second-year students they say that theese pre-courses are compleatly useless. Some people even skip theese and arrives in october! There are no exams nore any tasks or ways to practice....so everything seemes pointless really...

Ok...so everything began with me and my parents driving from Sweden to Poland. Thanks to the gps-reciever we managed to find the dorm on the first try. That wouldn´t be possible with a map I tell you...others tried:D I arrived on a thurstay but stayed in a hotel with my parents until friday. I thought that I would have my own room, but I was terribly disapointed. So now I live in a 20 square-meter room with a "room mate". It´s very claustrofobic. Hopefully I will get my own room in october (that´s what they said). And if I´m lucky I might move to a five-room appartement in a couple of months...but that´s only an idea at this stage...we´ll see.

The town is (as you can see in the posted pictures) very dirty and "broken":) There is a lot of construction everywhere (must be the money from EU:)). There is a nice center where you can go out clubbing, visit a bar or eat a meal. And It´s very cheep. A beer is aproxemately 6-7 szloti which is about 15 Swedish "kronor". A bottle of vodka with some beverages to mix with (helrör) is about 65 szloti (about 160 kronor). So you could (if you want to) skip the pre party and go out early even if you´re a poor student:)

In a couple of weeks we will be going by bus to Kracow (4 hour trip) for two days. I think It´s like a sight-seeing-trip. But there will proberbly be some time to discover the pubs to:) This trip Is "for free", which means that we have allready payed for it with our crazy university fee:)

When I´m writing this I´ve got a soar throat. I caught a cold the day before yesturday and It´s not getting any better. So I´ve been staying in my room for three days now. This means that I haven´t been able to attend the physics yesturady and today. I think I will skip Polish today to. It sucks. But I can do some reading at home.....

I will keep writing about everything that is going on....so until next time...do widzenia!

Some pictures from my first week in Wroclaw