workshops - Częstochowa

Damian was right there to pick us up, but Damian from Częstochowa, the one in Białystok is still there i think... anyway, we went to the city center and i wanted some sign with the name of the city on it, and i found this one that you can see on left side of the blog, n this thought came to my mind: "what does this city has to offer me to love it?... hum... i'll see". so, we went to the dorm and during our 1st week there we had a great time in the school, the director forced us to have lunch in the middle of the workshops, the teachers drove us to Olztyn Castle and around Częstochowa, went to Jasna Góra, Damian organized a small party with the students that week... but the best, i think, was when we were invited to the School Closing Ceremony for the Senior Students (Marysia, so rock singing! & dancing, of course!), we were told it was the day after and we wanted to do something to say "thanks, you are great"... so Shou, Vaun, León and me went to thee teather with Damian to look for customs, and they gave us some after begging a while (hope u can understand is not very common to have foreigners in Poland who want to borrow some customs for Closing Ceremonies...) but we got them and then i had to think a little to make some script, but we run out of time and had to go to the party with the students... there we drunk a lot of wódka, specially León who went to sleep early. we couldn't finish even 1 dialog i think, so we sort of use our creativity there n the ceremony. because of the customs: Shoushan played Shousharella, Varun was the Prince from India, León turned into Napo-leon and me... well, even when i was supposed to be a wizard, i felt like a clown. the presentation went pretty fine and that weekend we had a very nice trip out of Częstochowa and going to a cave, Ogrodzeniec Castle, Piaskowa Castle and finally we made it to Kraków! i returned to Kraków some weeks after with Qing... how we get the accomodation was such a story (we felt like this crazy woman will kidnap us, or steal our internal organs... but we survived). that week we also met the Mayor, i felt quiet important :)




On our way to Kraków, inside Damian's car

the other 2 weeks i spent there were a little more calm, but this party we had at the end of the 2nd week... but it was very nice staying in Adrianna's house and dancing with her when we were not watching the Champions League games, not that she likes them... but she joined me to watched them with good resoults for my Manchester United :D (i will say nothing else about this cup version). hanging out with some students was nice as well, and because the city tour was kind of complete i could just take it calm and talk more with people instead of going from one place to another. by the way, i like the variety of beer there... i won't forget how shameful for me was to arrive the 1st day to the I LO with sandals and pretty much "just waken up"... we shouldn't had had this small party and drinking games in Damian house the previous night, hehe. took me a while to find the right door when i arrived (with all my bags!) but Maja and Asia were very gentle when i arrived and took me to the classroom :) i started taking pictures of the group this week and i'm very sad i didn't do it before (Bialystok's one was taken by my friend Qing), here you can see the groups i had in I LO and II LO (by the way, "LO" means "High School" and they have romanic numering by city)






Last week in Częstochowa... totally out of my expectations of going back (certanly, not because i don't like the city but i thought i'd be somewhere else) i talked to Damian while being in Slovakia and asked him if he needed help for the last week of his schedule... and he did, so i took my train from Banska Bistrica straight to Czestochowa, but without this lady's help i would had made it sooner than i expected :P that was one of the ocassions where i felt there is not need to learn polish hehe (go check the video!). i stayed mostly in Francois's house, where i felt great. it was nice to keep learning some french and share the spanish. we also made it to play some basketball (after so many years that i played last time!) a couple of times and we ate the biggest pizz i ever saw! the workshops this time were very good and after Kash's words, i had "good timing" to arrive there, because she was leaving before friday. as u can see on the "official picture", i improved taking this pic... sad i didn't get any sign of "Enter your future" for this time, but was a good week again (student were great in every corner of Poland!). this week was the last one i spent in Poland, after the weekend i returned to Wroclaw to take my flight to Belgique and go back to Lima through the USA... the workshop in Opole was before this week