+ THE POSITIVES
- being able to hop on a train and cheaply travel to any part of the continent when you've got some time on your hands
- not having to be at the train station more than 15 minutes before departure
- morning walks to school along the Wisła and Wawel Castle
- hearing the hejnał at the top of every hour, especially late at night
- discovering new running paths up to and around the Kopiec
- the Planty
- Park Jordana and the Błonia
- the smell and color of rapeseed fields in the countryside
- my international friends (especially the Hungarians and their cooking)
- getting some free money at the beginning of each month from the Polish Bureau of Education
- Polish piwo and wódka
- dare I even say that I might miss surówka and kapusta?
- for sure all of the beets and barszcz
- how even though the dollar has taken a nose dive, things still cost half-price
- how no matter how bad my last self-administered haircut turned out, there will always be some Polish girl with a worse euro-style something on her head
- making up for lost time in the sense that I am living the life that most people already went through in college
- the way foreigners pronounce my name - long "a"s just sound better
- Chór Uniwersytet Rolniczego
- Vladimír
- the so-called "napkins"
- all the hand-washed laundry
- laundry in Piast
- pigeons in Piast
- cranky receptionist dude in Piast
- ok, just Piast in general
- and all those stupid pigeons in general
- not being able to express what I'm thinking among Polish speakers and consequently feeling shy, submissive, and not intelligent
- not being able to master the difference between pronouncing "ś" and "sz," "ć" and "cz," as well as "ź" or "ż"
- trying to ride a tram down Karmelicka during afternoon rush hour
- the smell of the horse carriages on the Rynek (ewww)
- the time gap between the end of the day bus schedule and the beginning of the night buses
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