When boredom starts to kick in

Ok, weekend in Poland was great! I stayed at Claudia’s flat in the centre of Wroclaw with Paulo. Maja and Tomec met us there to spend Saturday with us.

I hope I will come back to Wroclaw with time because unfortunately it wasn’t the best weekend for me to travel. First because I was ill, same flue that has been haunting me since I set foot in Czech Republic, and secondly because the two days I had to see the city the weather was horrible.

Also the train trip was quite exhausting, I was hoping that I could have taken some rest during the trip which was suppose to take 5h30m from Pardubice to Wroclaw but it ended up to be 7h due to strange delays and also crossing the border, and I had no chance to rest because many unexpected things would turn out to happen. Also during the trip I ended up tagging along with 3 Spanish Erasmus students in Germany. Samuel, Pedro and Maitê, they were taking one month to travel Europe by Inter-rail. I also met them in the city on the 2^nd day during sight seeing, I hope they have a good time with their travelling.

The city is very beautiful and the food and nightlife are so nice. Too bad I cannot remember the names of the pubs, only Spiz and Intro, but there was that one under the synagogue and the other one that means “heaven” in Polish. One of the high moments was when Paulo let a glass fall on the floor and the barmaid handed him over the broom to clean up…eheheh. What nice customer service! Also the xenophobic moment with Claudia and a Polish guy in a pub that called her “black woman”.

It was also nice to meet Claudia’s Erasmus Portuguese friends Filipa and André, some interesting conversations would come about and it’s always nice to have some group discussions in Portuguese when things get carried away.

The second day was just to wake up late and still have the taste of that awful Kebab that we had at 6 in the morning, we just rushed to get lunch with Maja and Tomec at Kurna Chata and take them to the station to say goodbye. Then after waiting an hour to buy my return ticket to Pardubice we tried to see some more stuff around the city, but Sunday afternoon everything is closed and it’s a lazy time of the day. The Portuguese guys invited us to go over their house for dinner but I passed it, I really needed the rest to be fresh for the morning train, and also it had been a while that I have talked to my mother so I took the chance to send her some pictures and chat without hurries.

The return trip was right on schedule, unfortunately I couldn’t rest much because someone would always come to ask me to put my feet down, or see the ticket, or ask for ID.

When I finally got to Pardubice, Ruben and Luis started updating me on what I had missed on the weekend, many strange things happen when I’m not around, and I don’t know all of the stories!

This week was quite a dull one; things are starting to be boring, same places, and same routines. Dydy Baba is becoming a heathen place, but still is the best we can get to relax and distract ourselves without having to walk to the centre. But trips to the Gas Station are becoming strange and funny experiences during the night. Hehe.

I could mention classes, but that’s not a nice subject to talk about while making an Erasmus journal, unless I talk about Czech private lessons…ehehe. But that is something I will reveal with time.

This weekend everyone is travelling out, but I will stay at Pardubice, Ruben and Luis went to Bratislava with the Greeks: Elena, Christina, Giorgos and Christos and also Portuguese, Mariana, the Spanish guy Rafa and the Lithuanian guy…Ondrunas which name I don’t know. I don’t know if anyone else joined them but I think not.

André and Pablo went to Pilsen and tomorrow are going to Kralovy Váry, and Rita, Roberto, Sara and Sofia are meeting them there.

The Italians I don’t know where they at, since Stefano lost his mobile I haven’t been able to track them around but I always meet them during night outs and I’m also a bit uncomfortable to call Vera because I don’t want to interrupt anything.

Now I just realized that Romana, Czech girl, has disappeared, I hope everything is alright with her, I haven’t seen her for exactly a week!

Yesterday we celebrated our 1^st month here in Pardubice, and we are already starting to fear the day of our return to Portugal, time flies.

So I will just stay home this weekend to save money, try resting a bit and hope that time will not pass by so quickly.

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Weekend at home was quite magical, I had time to myself and to do whatever I wanted without having to spend too much, it was pretty much perfect. Lazing and sleeping all day and then with so much time to spend it was pretty nice preparing good and tasty meals at home.

Also the company was perfect.

Then the week began, nothing to do for a change, people have started to get bored of doing nothing so planning weekends are the weeks main concerns.

The choices are going to Budapest on Thursday and coming back on Wednesday via Bratislava or going to a ski post in the weekend and stay only for one night. Neither of these choices is appealing to me so I’m more likely to stay at home.

What to do?