Poland .. Contd !

25th mar
Still in Poland, we went to this town about 170 km away from Krakow by bus, and reached Oswiecim. This is made up of two torture ghettos: Auschwit & Birkenau. It was horrendous living conditions. Like 6-8 pple sharing a wooden bed. Little water. Poor santiation. Ill-treated. Overworked. We also saw the baby shoes, and a hauntingly errie display of fake legs and crutches of those who were sent to the gas chamber. At least 1.1 million Jews from over all the world walked through those gates, and never came back.

And, of course, Angie, with her fetish for supermarket shopping, made us go to Tesco. It is huge. We figured our way, and spent 1.5 hrs there! But it was nice.

26th mar
went to zacopane - tatra mountains. It is actaully a area for ski and snowboarding. But we were too broke to we juz spent time walking a lot. and watching pple play in the snow. wat is interesting is tt after dinner at ard 830pm, we were hanging around the square, and debating in our singlish whether we should stay and for the open-air classical music concert or go back to rest. (coz we were dead tired from making wrong turns, and having to walk a ton of roads extra.) then in classic novel style, this polish guy from behind us said, "hey, are you guyz from singapore?" we turned ard to a really funny sight - this tall guy, whose name is adam wuz wearing a beret and wuz leanin and sittin on the side of his bike. we three decided we wanted to watch the concert, and having some time to kill - he took us to the beatutifully bohemic, and dingy looking pubs and bars tt i wld love to go chill out. amazing ambience thse chillout places in the jewish settlement have. he is btw, in the media industry, abt late 30s, more like a consultant, and also an academician. turned out tt he wuz asked to lecture in lasalle, and wuz stayin in bishan for some time. nice guy. wld love to visit him again when he hit krakow.

27th mar
we got up at 7pm, all ready to board the 10am train. turns out tt they adjusted the time one hour ahead, apparently to account for some greenwich thingy. So we were happily trudging along at 930, but came to the train station it wuz 1030. so we juz missed our train by 30 mins. bummer. so we had to go on the 4pm train.

at the locker room, we bumped into 3 german dudes. we went to the old square wif em and chatted to kill time. and yeah i had a pretty good time. i cld get along quite well wif hannes, who is doin exchange in budapest. strange - he is the same age as me and born juz 7 dayz before me. and we get along. hmmm virgos.

at the train station in warsaw, finally, this 40 plus looking beardy man approached us. askin if we wanted to stay in a polish home. we had talked bout stayin wif families for quite a bit, so this wuz the perfect opportunity.....