Hej hej - spring is here!
At last! It's getting so warm!
Ok so off to the news. On may 26th I'm going to London for 4 days. YAY! Finally. My dream came true. We will sleep in a cheap, lousy hotel above the pub. Hope we won't get beaten up hahaha. Can't wait! Have my tickets bought, hotel booked...:D Geez I am extatic!
And somewhere at the begginig of July be prepared for my arrival to Stromsund :) Wanna make it at Dunder this year. We will go on a roadtrip - over 2000 kilometers huh. Hope our little car won't fall apart in the middle of nowhere hahaha. Anyway I'm in a really good mood today. I just had birthday two days ago - party is tonight. It's weekend and it's just to many nice things happening to me lately.
Pussssssssss
Tjena
Oh it's been a while. But hey nobody reads it so I can be a little late ;)
Anyways there's nothing really interesting happening in my life at the moment. Well maybe except for that I'm still attending my Swedish class which is fun. But on the other hand I have quite huge problems with remembering all that grammar things. And also speaking is quite funny. The letter "K" in Swedish is bit confusing for us Poles. I mean how the hell should I know when to read it like an actual "K" and when like "sh?!?!" - see, I can't even write down that sound :) It causes many funny moments on our lessons.
I'm also in the middle of planning on a little weekend trip. But I can't decide should we go to Stockholm or to London. My witty brains says that if I'm going to Sweden in the summer anyway, I should go to London now. But my heart is torn apart :) And we will be invading Barcelona again in October I think - this time Radek want's to go and see a game. I'm planning to wander around Barcelona stores with a cup of hot latte from starbucks in my hand since I'm not that into football :)
Ahh sometimes I wish I was just a unemployed housewife, and that Radek is very rich and succesfull businessman and that we can live wherever we want for how long we want to, and don't care about money... Everyone has a right to dream, right?
Puss, puss
D.
Svenska!
Hejsan
Oh so my first Swedish class was yesterday. The teacher started very hard with us -with verbs at the first class whoa. I actually got a homework to do haha. It all seems ok. The teacher is very young but speaks Swedish fluently (lucky bastard). I think it will turn out fine but you know how it is at the first class. When it ends you have no idea what did you just learned haha. There are 6 people in the group so it's great. We managed to change starting hour to 6pm and that way it won't collide with my work - bra! I have to say that I have the best accent in the whole group :D At least that's what I think :P I won't write in Swedish because it's definately too soon now. Maybe in a 3 months haha.
At the moment I'm a bit sick so I stayed at home but I have to go and see a doctor in the afternoon. Now I'm drinking coffe with chocolate liquor - pretty good. Hope I won't get drunk lol.
Puss
Tack så mycket :P
London Calling
Been a while huh?
I wonder if anyone even looks at what I write. Haven't write for a while simply beacuse there was nothing to write about. Still there's nothing though. Ah my life is boring.
Lately I've been a bit envy about Emma and Madde going to USA. It's fun to read about their adventures on the other side of the globe. It made me want to go back to London so bad. I mean I really fell in love with that city. It's old and modern at the same time. And it's exaclty the way I imagined it to be. Sometimes I still can't belive I really went there - it was only few hours but still. I'm surfing through pictures from that trip and listening to The Clash "London Calling" - I really feel it calls me haha. I even planned a one week long trip to London somewhere around april but I doubt I will have a ny money to spend on that one. What a pity :(
Ah anyway. Won't bore you too much. Gotta get ready to meet for a coffee with my friend.
Love, D.
Song
Sometimes I feel like I’m floating in a strange see-through ball. I’m flying above the lands, countries, other worlds. And no one really knows me. And I guess no one ever will as long I’m so protective about myself. My head is locked for everybody except me…and sometimes even for myself.
And when the songs stops – I’m back to reality. My imagination is gonna kill me one dayMovie time
Ok so this is the plushie that our co worker Przemek (also known as Krecik) was given for his birthday. His nickname Krecik means "the mole". And back in the 80's there was a popular Czech series for kids named the same. So...
It's still not working
update: apparently blogg.se decided to co-operate with me. Nice.
Why
Swedish blog service doesn't like me apparently.
New Year
Here are some pictures of our celebration since everybody are now uploading their pix all over the web :)
Blowing up the baloons
Iwona preparing a sallad
Our media center
some of our food
Pawel and me
Yay it's me with the thing we call Zimne Ognie which means Cold Fire
Radek and my deformed face - why oh why?
Oh and my babies. I made them myself :) THese are muffins with cheese, ham, onion and red pepper. Soooo good. Anyone wants a recipe?
Take care all my beloved friends. May this new year bring you only happiness.
Love
D.
After Christmas
Disaster!
Seriously there must be some curse on me today.
My cheesecake looked perfect. We decided to try a piece so there wouldn’t be an embarrassment if something went wrong with it. Good we did that. Something went terribly wrong with my cake. It appears the cheese inside changed consistency to liquid. How fun! It’s very tasty but looks like shit so obviously I can’t show it to my-maybe-future mother in law. Can I? Anyway we will eat it with a spoon – how convenient.
My sallad…oh God. I unpacked by freshly bought box of mushrooms and what did I see…all fucking mushrooms are molded. Great! Any way I dealt with it. Then my rice had boiled over giving me another reason to clean up – again. Grrrrr…. Oh I just remembered I forgot to add cheese.
Oh and my lovely Christmas tree. It’s sooooooo crocked and curved at the top. Looks like shit and smells like cat’s pee – really. And I can’t find the Christmas lights and all that stuff and I will also have to fix a cake from a box since my cheesecake decided not to set. Geez…
Oh my...
there's no time!
Christmas on their way and I'm not even slightly prepared. Well this year it's easier for me because we're going to Radek's parents for Christmas. To city called Stalowa Wola :) It's about 5 hour long drive - which I actually like because I love longs car trips....maybe I'm weird. Anyway I was only told to prepare a sallad. Easy one, right? Well it turns out not that easy at all. I mean what sallad??? There are gazillion possible recipes and I only have one day and also have to bake a cheescake. I found some recipe on the net I may be using after all. Let's hope it will be edible :)
Oh and I totally forgot that indeed we will need a christmas tree. So I have to get dressed, go out, buy groceries, go to the cash machine and on to a search for a christmas tree patch.
And I'm being soooooooo lazy. Sitting here, drinking Gevalia (yes, I managed to find a store that has it ). I wish that for just one day I can do absolutely nothing...
Ah... Have a Merry Christmas y'all babes :* and let's hope this new year will bring me back to beautiful Sweden at last
have my weird face for Christmas :)
Everyday is like sunday...
Polish Christmas
Ok. so lately I’ve been talking to some of my Swedish friends and they were pretty shocked that in Poland we don’t eat any meat on Christmas eve. Well the explanation is pretty simple. In Poland we’re mostly Catholics so according to Bible (I guess…) we’re not suppose to eat meat on that day. Few years ago some important people in the church decided that in fact from now on were allowed to eat meat on Christmas eve. However I don’t know anyone who does. I mean it’s a tradition. It’s not hard to keep yourself from eating meat on that one day because you can eat it all year long.
So you probably wonder what do we actually eat and how the Christmas look in Poland? Here ya go.
I will tell you how does it look in my family. We meet in the afternoon at my uncle apartment. All of my family, well except of those who live at the seaside and in Sweden ;) And now the first tradition. We won’t sit at the table until there is a first star in the sky. That tradition mostly lives in families with small children – so they have something to do when adults are preparing the dinner J. When there is a first star in the end, whole family gathers around and everyone takes a piece of thin, waffle like thing called “opłatek”. And now with your piece you go to everybody, one by one and you’re wishing yourselves merry Christmas and so on and you take a piece of the person “opłatek” and that person takes a piece of yours and eat it (that sounds weird lol). When everybody are done you can finally start to eat.
We start off with fresh bread, butter, many kinds of salads and a lot varieties of herring. With onion, sour cream ,tomatoes and whatever you like. Herring is like our national fish – at every family gathering there has to be a herring. We also have a “barszcz z uszkami” which is a soup of beetroots with little dumplings stuffed with mushrooms. We also have “pierogi” – dumplings with sauerkraut and mushrooms. And there are no Christmas without carp. In my family we eat it fried – I hate it, it tastes like mud J Now let’s go on to the sweets. We have cakes: cheesecake and “makowiec” which is a cake with poppy seeds. And my grandfather cooks a thing called “makiełki” – it’s homemade pasta with honey, raisins and poppy seed cooked in milk. It’s extremely sweet but I totally love it. And we also have a Swedish accent – we always drink Glogg. It’s because I have family in nortern Sweden and they showed that to us years ago – and we liked it so it stayed.
Carp
Barszcz
Makowiec
Also about the presents – we open them in the middle of the dinner. If there are kids in the family it’s often earlier ;)
Geez that was a long post. If you want to know anything more about Poland – do not hesitate to ask. It’s good to write about something I actually know about
Take care my darlings
Puss och kram
