The End of an Era Aaand a New Trip!



 

Yesterday was a sadish day. My only in-person class came to an end. Yesterday’s class was the last one! It made me a bit sad… from now on I’m only having online classes.

I’ve started my day with blog writing. I was a bit late with my blogs on Gdansk but buy now that series is out you can read them here, here, here, and here.

After I finished writing I had to vacuum clean the whole apartment again and gather all my crap I need for two days, because yesterday was also the day when we went to Poznan! Oh, yess baby, we were about to explore yet another city! Sári’s friends are arriving today to Poznan, we will meet them there, have a nice meal at the local Pyra Bar and head home to Warsaw in the evening, where they will spend some time with us. They haven’t bought a ticket back home, hence the opened end of their stay haha. (I can picture a scenario of us going back to Hungary together, so we can get the 3rd dose of our vaccination. But this really depends on them, and the healthcare in Poland; if we can get the 3rd vaccine here, we are not going home till February.)
So, I gathered my stuff together staffed them into my bag and left for school. I walked all the way to the uni to test how much time it takes, and to make sure I reach the 157.1 km which is the goal that my Fitness App gave me for November.
At the uni we watched a documentary about a village in Africa, how the tourists go there, pay the locals to photograph them (for 0.18 dollars a picture… what the fuck? If you can afford to go to Africa, why can’t you pay them at least a dollar or two?! Give those people a decent amount of money for their faces basically. It was really shocking. How stupid the tourists are and how greedy they can be. And what the worst thing is? I would probably be the same. Or I should say I would’ve probably been the same if I hadn’t seen this little movie. Tourists are dumb, that was the conclusion of the movie. We watched another short movie, and then our teacher gave us the final grades. It was a good closer of the course, I will miss it very much! We had a great teacher, she has great humor, great English, and good classes as well. I wish all my teachers would be like her.

Anyways when the class was over, I rushed to the Warszawa Centralna Railway Station, to meet Sári and get on the train to Poznan. It was quite a hustle, and for some unknown reasons to science all the trains were stopping at the platform number 3. So, if we haven’t got infected last weekend on the train from Sopot to Gdansk now, we had another great chance. Lovely. Surprisingly the train arrived right on time, we found our seats in no time. When I was buying the tickets, the system didn’t let us choose our seats, nor did it let us sit next to each other. WTF?! We were only allowed to sit behind each other. It didn’t make any sense. The only way Sári and I could sit together was to book the seats to a table. Which was an okay solution, we weren’t that happy about getting caught into our faces but were accepted the situation. However, when we got on the train, we got more confused. I thought it was impossible to sit next to each other because the train was so full, but when we got on the train it was clearly not the case! I don’t know if the system had a bad day or what happened…

So, we sat down minded our own business, when a possibly Chinese woman got on the train. With her Ipad. Talking on that Ipad. Without headphones. On speaker. The whole wagon was listening to her conversation for at least one hour! It was sooo annoying! Why would you do that? It was so rude and pointless of her. Every time you go to an international city, and get on a train or bus, there is always an old or at least middle-aged Asian woman who talks on her Ipad with her loved ones on SPEAKER. Why do they do that?! Seriously! WHY?

Thankfully she eventually stopped talking and we could have a nice quiet rest of the journey.

I’ll write about Poznan in tomorrow’s blog, till then keep save and have a great day,

Thanks for reading,
Almos

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