Summary; first month in photos

Bystrzyca Kłodzka

 During the first week we had a lot of activities to get to know the city and each other.
This is from city game in Bystrzyca, from a dance point. No, I can't dance. Yes, I'm excited.

 I absolutely love dogs around here. Firstly, most of them just roam free around town and are rarely on leash. At first this was kind of an culture shock - if there would be a dog running free in Finland it would be catched immediately. I think it's even illegal to let them be without a leash. But I've come familiar with my neighbourhood canines; I see them everyday and greet them with a friendly cześć.

 

 Free Hugs point. Actually I think polish people are very nice. But similar to finnish people, hard to approach.
I didn't get any hugs that day.

 I packed ten bags of Salmiakki with me to relieve my homesickness. But also, I have offered it to other people -it isn't, how could I say, a popular delicacy around here. One or two of the ten people who have tried actually finished the one piece od candy.
I have also been getting to know the delicacies of Poland as also seen on this picture.

 After I started working at the school I've received a lot of these. They're letters from my lovely students. These have a lot of effort put into them; the last one I got was just a blank paper with a hole cut into it. But it still warms my heart.

(in polish, pani refers to a female person, as here "miss" in this letter, but also used for any female "mrs.", "miss", "you" or "her". I love it)

 Some pictures from my flat. 

Actually today we had a cleaning day so it's not that messy anymore.

 I wanted to post this picture to explain one of the biggest culture shocks for me. This is a typical train station in Poland.

Nothing else to say about that.

Budapest was absolutely beautiful.

 

With my lovely flatmate. She's awesome, but austrian.

One of the projects here that volunteers take part is called Euroweek. Polish children around Poland spend a few nights here and volunteers make presentations for them about their home countries, have different activities with them, games and trips. They get to meet a lot of people around the world, learn from other cultures and improve their english. And of course have a lot of fun. It's really great.

 The nearest big city here is Wroclaw, which is also very beautiful. From my first time there I was a little traumatized, but day trip last weekend was very nice.
It takes just under two hours to get there and travelling here is dirty cheap (although for me, coming from Finland, everything here is dirty cheap).










And yeah, these guys were playing covers there. They were so so amazing.

 

There would have been so many photos if I would have tried to put them all so this is just shortly something from my first (super awesome great) month and my life here.