poland

I'm at Paulina's house, a friend I worked with at Waldkirch in Germany, (perhaps stories to follow in a later post.), just outside Andrychow, near Krakow.

On the tv is Shallow Hal, which is dubbed, but... only sort of. I hated dubbing in Spain - this is far worse. There's only one guy who does the dubbing. And he doesn't even do different voices for the different people. It's as if someone is doing a director's commentary over the movie... but he only talks after the people onscreen do. He is hardly even expressive. Apparently this is how it is usually done in Poland.

Today we visited Krakow and practically boiled to death in the sun. Then, we took a tiny bus back to Andrychow which the driver filled with people (seats, then the aisle) and didn't bother putting on air conditioning (if there even is any in that bus). The windows can't be opened. The air seemed thick. But we made it alive.

After some pierogis Paulina, Paulina's boyfriend Maciek and I went for a beer in Andrychow, and then I got to walk Paulina's family's husky Nari. She was a good girl, and it was cool to be out in the country at night. It's been a while. The quiet, the bugs, the fields, the dark. Then at 10.30 Paulina's mom insisted that we have supper - I insisted I wasn't hungry, but I managed to put back that plate of roast beef and potatoes reeeeal darn easy.

Now it's time for bed.

Anyway, my agenda for tomorrow: get hair trimmed, get my eyebrows done, send a couple postcards, and visit Auschwitz. Yeah, I know.

And on Friday I make my way to Liberec (I'll arrive later than I wanted to, but it turned out to be a lot farther from here than I thought) for Lukas' wedding.

Alright, definitely time for bed now. I haven't been keeping too up to date on the travels, but I guess that's what Facebook is for.

Night!