Bike and Beach Tuesday

Now that I'm warmed up with my blog posting and am trying everything possible to put off studying and I drank a large cappuccino not too long ago, I need to tell you about my Tuesday. Plus, I'm sure you're all trying to find ways to procrastinate anyways :)

After an eventful morning trying to explain to our crazy professor from Introduction to Physiotherapy (you would think it was sort of a blow off class...don't be fooled by the title- intro my you-know-what) that she is in fact wrong, I finally made my way to the bus station where I was going to make sure that we could rent bikes. I mean, that's what it said on the website, "Bike Rental at Bus Station". Unfortunately, living in Poland for a few months now, I knew that it couldn't be that easy. Let me just keep it short and say this- there is no bike rental at the bus station. After searching all over Poznan for a place to rent bikes, I finally found a place where Nathan, Natalia, Antosh and myself rented our bikes (with some difficult because Natalia forgot her state ID and only had her school ID, but after some bribing and a 500zl deposit we were finally on our way).

To be completely honest, I have never ridden a bicycle through a city. It was by far one of the hardest things I have done in a while. Between trams, people, manequins being placed in front of stores, we finally made it to the woods where we were to bike 13.5km to get to our destination. On the way, our friend Kasper joined (not the friendly ghost...he's a mean ghost haha just kidding) and we continued our adventure. It was so cool riding our bikes through the woods. Being mature medical students, there were numerous Mario Kart references and drills to get into single-filed lines, but after about an hour we finally made it to the lake. After we locked up our bikes on the pier, we had to take in all that Poland has to offer and stop for a refreshing beer- I mean we had just been riding our bikes for almost two hours, it's the least that we could do!

This is what the bike ride looked like the whole way!

Boys being Boys

Quick little piwo never hurt anyone right?

The rest of the day was filled with jumps off the pier and sand volleyball and being attacked by third graders throwing sand at us when we were in the water. Everyone had an amazing time and we were even joined by our three other friends that came a bit later. The weather was perfect- 85 degrees and sunny. I mean how was anyone expected to study on a day like that?! Natalia brought her books, but none of us allowed her to study. She ended up having a nightmare that night about failing her exams and getting kicked out of school (can I just add that she's the number one student in her class?). Me on the other hand, I dreamt about Taco Bell- well chalupas and hard shell tacos to be specific.

Jumping off the pier! Get it Antosh!

The B&B Tuesday group 

To say the least, we all had a blast and can't wait for exams to be over so we can do a repeat of B&B Tuesday. Sounds like a sandwich place doesn't it?