yesterday we celebrated anne-sophie’s 22nd birthday and went afterwards with the Americans to one of the many salsa-places here. quite nice, though we did not danced salsa ;). the Americans have their own programme here and are all much younger than we are – Rachel, the youngest one among them, is only 19 years old :o).

it’s incredible how much polish people like the USA, especially at sgh. for them it’s the best place to live – the most liberal economy with soooo many opportunities. everyone can become a millionare over there as we know. therefore it is in many cases the role model for the transformation of the polish economy – the social market economy here has failed in their eyes in the last decade. That’s also a reason of the many academic programmes among sgh and North American universities, e.g. they do have here a Canadian MBA programme.

i was first suprised to hear that many students are going each year to the USA in order to work there three month or so – you can find everywhere advertisements about thise. Over there they earn “astonishing amounts of dollars” for their low-qualified work, e.g. in a laundry of a hotel: after expenses: 1.500 bucks. most of them are working in Chicago – the biggest Polish city in the world – did you know this? About 4 mln. Polish people live there (in warsaw only 1.75 mln.).

Well, we also went to see “Chicago” on Tuesday night in kinotheka – it was not that bad as I thought – showbiz at its best for this time. actually I liked the jazz music a lot.