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| Thursday, 19-Jun-2008 12:07 |
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Mary's farewell party
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Dancing with the tune
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Vlad posing with an Italian dude and a Polish girl
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Mary & her student
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the crowd
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Bartek & Ola
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Vlad & Marcin
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Marcin, Mary & Vlad
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| Thursday, 22-May-2008 12:00 |
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Berlin 22/5 - 25/5 2008
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All aboard!
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Zoologichergarten, the place I stayed
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Hard Rock Cafe Berlin
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Brandenburg Gate
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Memorial of murdered European jews
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I had always wanted to go to Berlin, the capital city of Germany and was known as a city that divided Germany into communism and democracy block. Being in Poland for almost 2 years, it's interesting to learn more about the history that revolved around the continent I live in. Germans played an important role in the history of world war two as well as the cold war. 22nd May was a public holiday in Poland so I thought, yeah, why don't I just board the train and go to Berlin for that long nice weekend.
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| Wednesday, 30-Apr-2008 13:11 |
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Sailing Weekend
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| Saturday, 12-Apr-2008 12:00 |
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Reception Weekend and 100 Cultures in 1 City
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| Saturday, 29-Mar-2008 09:13 |
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Easter Weekend
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| Saturday, 23-Feb-2008 12:00 |
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Weekend in Krakow
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| Saturday, 23-Feb-2008 12:00 |
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Krakow Weekend
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Since Basti was leaving, we decided to go to Krakow for the weekend. I've been to Krakow but I hadn't been to Auschwitz so I was very curious to see the biggest Jewish concentration camp in Poland as people said it's unimaginably huge! So after work on Friday, off we catch the train to Krakow which only took us 2 and half hours (with an express train of course). We stayed at Ivan's colleague's flat and off to the party as soon as we arrived, crazy eh? Anyways, on Saturday we were just doing sightseeing around Krakow, thankfully the weather was perfect! Now I realised why people prefer more Krakow than Warsaw. The first time I came here I couldn't see what's so special about Krakow, but then I realised Krakow has a lot to offer in terms of entertainment. Most clubs are just around the square which you can just easily hopping from one club to another without worrying about the distance. You could also obviously see there are a lot of young people and is more student and culture centred. I came to understand why whenever people talk about Krakow their eyes are wide open and full of enthusiasm than when they talk about Warsaw. Yeah, now you could say that I prefer Krakow more than Warsaw.
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| Wednesday, 16-Jan-2008 13:16 |
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Budapest Weekend
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| Monday, 31-Dec-2007 12:00 |
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New Year's eve
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It was the day where this whole trip to Vilnius was about, to celebrate new year! Yeah, time flies so fast these days. The memory in London is still strongly visible and now 2008 has approached us! Like last year, I had massive great time!! Only this time it was Lithuanian way. With the thick snow covering the city, I truly felt the atmosphere of new year! All supermarkets were full of people trying to do last minute groceries as all shops would be closed on 1st Jan.
I had my new year's party at Giedre's with her other Lithuanian friends. One thing I'll never forget about this new year and my trip to Vilnius as a whole was rolling myself on the icy cold snow with my bathing suit! sounds crazy huh? Well, that's how the Lithuanians do when they go into a sauna in winter. Apparently there's a sauna at Giedre so we all decided to go for a sauna after midnight. And so Virgis set a game rule; nobody is allowed to leave the sauna until everyone in the room agrees, no matter how fucking hot it gets. I patiently waited although god knows how freaking hot I was! It lasted almost half an hour until everyone just couldn't stand the heat and off we ran outside to the garden and rolled ourself on the snow quickly and back to the sauna. It was the craziest thing I've ever done but it felt REALLY good! I was down with cold the very next day...hahahah...poor me. But it was a really good experience! perhaps in a lifetime.
Wonder where will I be next year? 
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| Sunday, 30-Dec-2007 12:00 |
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Second Day - KGB Museum
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Started the day by having Lithuanian pancakes for breakfast
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then headed off to former KGB prison now museum
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Second day in Vilnius we started our day having pancakes for breakfast in one of the most famous pancakes place in Old Town. I tried pancakes with banana and chocolate and it was delicious! Well, the banana wasn't that sweet though but it had some taste. Then we headed off to KGB museum in which I was very excited about, it used to be the prison for the KGB prisoners but after the fall of communism they turned it into a museum. Gosh, you wouldn't believe some of the things you see inside.Ok, to be honest before I went to the museum I didn't know that much about KGB, all I knew was that KGB is always associated with Russian and the Soviet Unions. My knowledge of KGB was just based on what I saw on movies and some articles I read which still I wasn't really 100% sure and quite blur about the whole concept of the organisation. Since I got the chance to be in one of the former Soviet countries, I was really curious to find out what KGB is all about. We spent almost an hour and a half in the museum. After reading through the descriptions, stories of what really happened during the occupation, I was really distraught by the photos I saw,can't imagine the life at that period, must be extremely hard! Just imagine, you are being watched all the time, every single minute of your life. You are not free to travel anywhere and even if you had, you're still monitored by these agents and if they are suspicious about your activity, off you go to the prison in that little tiny cell. You'll be interrogated, brainwashed and hell you never know when they're gonna free you out.
After the museum, we went for a coffee to warm ourselves up before headed off to Giedre's parents' for dinner.
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SUKA KEK & CUPCAKE TAK?? 
