This tuesday and wednesday all polish people will celebrate the day of death. I think only the religiuos people do so, but that’s almost all poland. On these day people go to the cemetaries to put many flowers, candles and plants. The poeple make prayers for their passed members of famlily. It is said to [...]

Today I moved all my things, stuff and objects to my new flat. I finished painting my room, and I have to admit, it looks quite nice! This week I will start to live there, although that will be quite diffucult. Things I still don’t have: Bed, couch, warm water, pans, pots, cups, curtains, towels [...]

Most houses in Katowice have a heater inside which works on coal. The picture below shows a lightgreen object in the corner of my room. This big kind of oven needs to be filled with coal (ofcoarse lit by fire) in order to heat the room. My room already is modernised by electric heating, which [...]

Thank you all for your great responds! The idea to paint my wall gold is great, if its possible I will do it, so far I am thinking of painting one of my walls green. My new room also has a balcony with these typical things to put flowers in, any ideas for that? Monday [...]

What is that? That’s my house! Yes people, your thumbs finally paid off, I’ve got me a house! Monday we get the key, photo’s are soon to be seen here. What collours will i paint my room? Does anyone have some idea?

My fist words of polsih are being taught to me now. Twice a week I have a class of 90 minutes full of polsih language fun! I feel like a child in that class en that feels good, making all kinds of unknown alien-like sounds; shhhhh zjjjjj tsssszzzzz and so on! Sadly I have to [...]

So today I officially choose my subjects. My main subject is Screen printing the three others are new media, lino cutting and monumental painting. This week I try to speak with all my teachers to see what plans they have. Today I already sort of spoke with the teacher of lino-cut. He doesn’t speak english [...]

So at the moment things are still a bit lame, school is suppose to start this week. But today the headteacher couldnot tell me my schedule of classes to follow. So tomorrow I go to school to arrange it myself, which is what I prefer anyway. The search for a house didnot result in much [...]

Thank you all for crossing those fingers, hopefully it will bring more luck tomorrow. Today I couldn’t find any house thats just fits a little bit to my standards. Which are not that high. I just dont want to live in a house where the heating uses coal. And I dont want a house that [...]