Wrocław

Today my grandparents and I went to Wrocław for half the day, basically so they could show me around where everything is and how to get everywhere, in case I got a job in the area.

Wrocław is one of the biggest cities in poland. From our town, Trzebnica, it's about a 15-20 minute drive, but today we took the bus, which took about twice as long to get there with all it's stops.

In Wrocław, the tram system is still well in use, so we also took a tram to get to a few parts of the city. Wrocław is a huge city, much, much bigger than Sydney, and so there's no way you could walk everywhere!

Today was so warm, I took my jacket off and was walking around in a top and a cardigan, yay!

Here are a few photos of a part of Wrocław which is called 'Rynek'. It's very colourful and there's plenty of cafes, restaurants and bars.

I also managed to squeeze a little bit of shopping into the day. (ok I lied, I spent A LOT of the day shopping lol). And while I was looking at clothes, I also kept my eye open for shops which were looking to hire people. There were quite a few, but they all had signs in the window saying to either email your CV to them or leave it instore with them, and I haven't even finished writing my resume yet. I must say though, I was pretty intimidated by all the polish shops and their polish employees. And I am naturally quite shy, so that doesn't help. However, every job ad says that knowing english is a huge advantage, so that's great for me!

Here are a few of the clothes I bought today, all from H&M.

In the afternoon, I took my grandparents to dinner. (Dinner in poland is eaten early, about 3-4 in the afternoon). We went to this really nice polish restaurant, I ate mushroom soup for entre, roast pork with gnocchi and beetroot salad for main, and as usual, malibu and coke for my drink =)

The mushroom soup was served in a really nice crusty bread roll, it was so yummy!

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Food Glorious Food!

Since I have been in polska, the most exercise I have done is gone for a walk. I don't wanna join the gym cos I don't wanna pay for it (was great having a free gym at work back in sydney!) and I don't want to go for walks every day because I'm too lazy.

So, not exercising + eating yummy polish food all day every day = FAT monika!!

Polish food is so yummy- it's good, fat, wholesome food. A typical polish dinner is a big fat oily pork snitzel and creamy mash potato. And dessert, oh my goodness! Endless cakes, pastries, donuts, cookies, crepes.. everything!

Last friday, my babcia (grandma) and I spent the day making a traditional polish food, pierogi. Pierogi are dumplings, filled with any type of filling you like. The traditional way to fill them is using really creamy mash potato with a little ricotta cheese through it. Other fillings are mushroom, cabbage, chicken, mince meat, as well as sweet fillings such as apple, strawberries, blueberries.

We made pierogi with mash potato, and some with cabbage and mushroom. The best way to eat them is with a creamy white sauce and bits of fried onion and bacon.

Babcia also taught me how to make polish chicken soup, as well as 'chrusty', which are these really thin deep fried bits of dough covered in icing sugar. SO GOOD!

Yesterday I started writing my CV in polish and today I plan to finish it off. Then when that's done I will start looking for work. I am getting a little bored to be honest, it's great to sleep in but I need to be doing something during the days (other than eating!).

Well, babcia just made some chicken, mushroom and cheese crepes, so I'm off!

First few days

So I found my blog!

As I already told some of my friends, I had created this blog while I was still in Sydney and when I arrived in Poland earlier this week, I realised that I had forgotten my blog site. I knew it was called Sydney to Europe, but I had forgotten the address and who my blog host even was. Several attempts at searching for it in google gave me nothing either.

But I tried my luck and logged into blogspot, which is my host, and it worked! So now, I have found my blog, and I can post pics and give you regular (If you're lucky) updates on what I am up to in this new life of mine.

So what have I been up to? Well it's been 4 days since I have arrived in Trzebnica (a small town about 20 mins away from the city Wroclaw) but it feels more like 4 weeks. I have been getting up early and falling asleep early too, as my sleeping patterns are all over the place. But I am slowly getting used to the time difference now.

Now I knew it would be cold, but I was not expecting this cold! It is absolutely freezing. It even started snowing yesterday, and today is the first day of spring!

Besides sleeping, eating, and enjoying not having to work, all I have done is some shopping here and there and visiting family.

The best is yet to come ;) Especially when summer arrives!

Monika x