What memories are made of

I had a busy weekend. On the 6th of December we celebrated Santa Claus day in Poland. On this same day we celebrated our independence day in Finland. My family decided to spend it here in Kłodzko, to bring me some finnish gingerbread, salmiakki vodka and glögi, kind of finnish mulled wine, which I've been missing all autumn, but this weekend was just perfect to finally get it, because we had our first real snow and it was all christmasy-feely, drinking it with woollen socks on my feet and with raisins and almonds, of course, and we also found out that polish wodka works perfectly on this, also added some gingerbread on the side and it's like heaven. All the snow melted away last night though. Now it has just been raining all day. Boring. I was kind of feeling it already, I even got some real shoes and everything.
Oh and yes! My dear Lea had been observant and reading my blog... she brought me real coffee from Finland and even a maker to prepare it! I couldn't be happier (I think I have already drank like half a package in two days just because I can).

Santa Claus day at school meant that the kids got presents from Santa, lot of candy and chocolate; so they were even more hyperactive than usually. We made christmas decorations, learned about christmas celebration in Poland and in other countries and watched movies. Overall a very nice, relaxed day. And this first class christmas tree was so adorable, the kids decorated it themselves so 90% of the balls and thingys were just a big bunch on the lower branches.

I was kind of worried how my family would manage the train trip from Prague -as my experiences in travelling from Czech haven't been so joyful. Surprisingly everything went just fine and the trains were on time so I welcomed them to our little town. It was fun to see this city from a more touristic view -I mean like eating at a restaurant and all that. I didn't expect that we would find even one real restaurant, but we did and even a really nice one. And it felt also nice to eat food.

On saturday we had a day trip to Wrocław. We had a nice time shopping at the christmas market (it's huge and really really nice, with lots of original products) and just looking around. It felt nice to be talking in my own language, but also to have a real chance in using my polish as I had to work as somewhat as a translator in some situations -I'm quite proud of myself. Tomorrow I'm again back to polish lessons after two weeks (and I didn't do much effort on improving it otherwise during this time either).  

We also visited the St. Elizabeth's church, which was absolutely beautiful. There would have also been a possibility to go up the tower (rising up to 91,5 m), but we didn't dare, for the day was really windy. It calmed down at some point. Anyway there wasn't any snow in Wrocław, when in our town just 90 km south we already had a few centimetres.  I was kind of disappointed because the last time a copule weeks ago I was there it was already very pretty with all the christmas decorations and I was looking forward to see how it would look like now. Still in the end the town is beautiful in any case.




We had some essential hot wine to keep us warm and kept the cups as souvenirs -actually we did pay deposit for them, so it's not stealing.

Kiitos ihanasta seurasta! Olette rakkaita.

Also I can't believe that soon four months have already gone by and actually in two weeks I will go home for christmas and when I'll be back here it will already be halfway of january, because as soon as I get back from my travels I will head to my mid-term training for a week.