Just had my second exam after my Polish exam last week’s Tuesday – glad when this stressful week is over…

Otherwise we had last Thursday a great BBQ in Powsin park. In Sabinki there was last Saturday the summer festival, where we won the basketball tournament, and on Sunday we all went to Matrix II, which is even in Polish cinemas not better, at least concerning the dialogs.

On Saturday we visitited first an architecture exhibtion, where they showed very amazing plans for the future of Warsaw, which will be very bright regarding architecture. One highlight is from my point of view the skyscraper Rondo 1 at Al. Jana Pawla, which is nearly finished. Afterwards we went to Juwenalia, a festival for students, which takes place every year in most cities. Great music, lots of people around. We also watched bungee jumping.

Yesterday we had our great costume party here – check it out here!

Just coming back from a press conference from “Razem w Europie” (Togehter in Europe), who want to support Poland’s referendum to join the EU on 7th and 8th June. Therefore lots of organisations with young people from all over the world, e.g. Les Jeunes Européens, doing some (street) actions in the whole country. Special focus will be on remote cities where still lots of efforts have to be done – so it is definetly not decided here yet. One great obstacle is also that at least 50% have to vote with YES to make the vote valid.

I was really happy to hear last night from a Lithuanian friend about the great result in Lithuania’s referendum, after it was nearly on a edge on Saturday, but at last nearly 90% said YES with 63% participated.

After the conference we had the chance to see the “Sejm” (the Parliament) that has 490 seats and is the second oldest in Europe, after the British one. At the moment it is there quite noisy, especially in debates about the referendum, as we were told.

long party weekend is over :( and that has happend:
It started with Krzysztof’s 23rd birthday party in Sabinki on Thursday with lots of people and every beautiful girl from SGH (therefore I don’t have any pictures of course…). But unfortunately the party had to end at half past twelve because again the police came, as nearly everyday in Sabinki, and threatened to sue him. They also took his and his roommates passport and still they have to pay a fine of 100 zl each of them.

Friday we had our after Mazury party in Sabinki and went afterwards to Ground Zero, where the European Week ended with a great party and lots of alcohol.

This was topped by yesterday’s “German-Polish friendship” party we had with Darek’s flatmate Paulina and her friends from Warsaw university studying German at their place somehow in the ugly suburbs of Warsaw. Somehow I ended in drinking up my wodka bottle with two girls of them cause the others preferred to drink wine.

The week ended in an ironing competition on Sunday afternoon – of course I won with my ten shirts. And afterwards we all went to the Opera Narodowa to see ballet – “Grek Zobra”. Really nice place, but the people there applauded every second and there was not much left to enter the stage to interact with the dancers – nie behaviour ;).