You Can Find Me In Polska: PRE STUDY COURSE IS OVERRRRRR...oh wait!

Hello my fellow blog follower friends and family!

I know you've been anxiously waiting for a new post from me and I apologize if you have just been clicking the refresh button for the past few weeks, but it has been quite a busy time here in good old Poznan. I've found that bullet points work best so here they go:

I am officially going to MUNICH for Oktoberfest from Wednesday until Saturday. I am more than excited and have put the celebrations that occur on a high pedestal so they definitely have a lot to live up to. Transportation plans are not perfected, but we will either be driving or taking an overnight train...either way it will be one of many of my EuroTrips so I am more than excited to go. Now don't worry, we will also be doing some sightseeing over in Deutschland and taking in the German culture. Stay tuned for pictures next week!
Although the pre-study courses should have ended last Tuesday, we were informed that physical therapy students have to attend physics lectures and discussions for an extra week. When we learned about this extra week of physics, it put a damper on our planned trip to Oktoberfest so we talked to the professors and they said that if our exams go well then we can skip two days of the physics classes. Now all of you who know me very well know how much hatred I have towards this little subject called physics. And now for the drumrollllllll- somehow my friend Ania and I scored the best scores in physics in the program. How did this happen? I'm still wondering the exact same thing, but who cares? I'm going to Munich!
This past Tuesday I took a 5.5 hour train ride to Pulawy (where my whole family lives) which is on the other side of Polska. I spent 4 days over there hanging out with aunts and cousins and grandmas and doing the most random things. It was weird though because once I got to Pulawy (my adventure there will be another bullet point) I felt that I was in Poland, but Poznan to me is just some city in Europe where they happpennnn to speak Polish all the time.
My train ride to Pulawy was interesting. I tried to play it cool and pretend that I have been on trains all the time and know exactly what I'm doing. Then I started panicking because my train was late. Now here's the thing- I had to switch trains in order to get to Pulawy. Train #1- ran behind exactly 30 minutes which meant that it would arrive at 7:59pm. Train #2- would leave the train station at 7:58pm. Yes that is right. I would be late for my train to Pulawy by exactly 1 minute! Like I said before- I panicked and found the conductor of the first train and told him my situation. He then called the conductor of the second train I had to get on and told him to wait. So when the first train arrived at the station, I literally jumped off and sprinted to the second train where some man opened the 100 pound doors for me. The second he closed those doors, the train left the station. If you really think about it, I single-handedly messed with the Polish train schedules. Okay maybe it wasn't that big of a deal, but just like in the movies for sure.
I have been getting a better feel of the city and have been exploring different places to go out on the town or grab a cup of coffee or a feast of a dinner for cheap. So far one of the coolest places I have been was the "Dark Restaurant." It's very simple to explain- you eat in COMPLETE darkness. When I say complete, I mean PITCH black as in the waiter leads you to the table and when you close your eyes or open them, you see the same exact darkness. You eat your food with your hands and the neat thing is- you don't have a menu. You tell the waiter what types of foods you don't like and what you are allergic to and the chef customizes your dinner plate for you. It's a very entertaining experience to say the least.
I ALMOST FORGOT! So Ania and I decided to go check out the new stadium that Poznan finally completed for the 2012 Euro Championship in soccer (orrrr football if you don't want to get shot here in Europe). We went on opening day because Sting was going to have a performance there in honor of the new stadium. The tickets that were left were the very expensive ones that we could not/did not want to pay for. So we decided to go to a cafe nearby, get our studying done (because we had chemistry and physics exams the next day) and then listen to Sting from outside the stadium. Once we got to the stadium after our studying, we found some scalpers (didn't know they existed in Poland too!) and bought some cheap tickets literally 5 minutes before the show! I thought that this would be like any American concert where the performer is scheduled for a certain hour and doesn't get on the stage until 1.5 hours later. Well Sting is a very punctual person apparently because at 8 on the dot, he began his show with "Shape of my Heart." Somehow we made it into our seats just in time and were able to enjoy the show! Once we bought the tickets, we celebrated by dancing in the middle of the streets and screaming to each other which got us on a live broadcasting of a major nationwide radio station in Poland!

Here are a few pictures from my recent sightseeing adventures and what not! I will have more stories shortly! Oh and also- I GOT A BLACKBERRRYYYYY!