The first days

Well I finally start to tell about my ´new life´here in Lodz, Poland. I arrived last sunday after having taken the Euroline bus for 18 hours....actually it wasn´t as bad as it might sound, and if one takes the bus during the night, than you pnd most time sleeping anyway )if you have earpluggs. And since almost everybody in the bus spoke Polish, I made my first Polish experiences in Duesseldorf where I got on the bus.

In my new hometown I live in an appartment woith another Dutch volunteer (Merel) and a French Erasmus student (Julie). After some cleaning sessions it met our expectations and I was eager to make it more comfy by buying a plant for my room (Today I found a little needle-bush-thing that I will buy tomorrow and put on my balkony - it doesn´t loose its needles in the winter and it will be a nice christmas tree substitude).
We live in the north-west of the city, not far away from the center and there`re tram and bus stops close by. The public transportation system is very good here, there are nightbusses even under the week that go until 4 am!(So there´s no need to leave a party early because there´s always a bus going home). I´ve already had some creepy experiences with those nightbusses when Merel and I took the wrong direction and ended up in the middle of nowhere, us being the only female human beings around. Of course did the busdriver not speak or understand ANY English/French/German/Dutch so we just waited for him to take his brake and then drive back to the center.
ALthough I haven`t had to work for my project yet, I have been pretty busy getting to know the city and `equipping´ our appartment with e.g. dish cleaner or garbage cans.
During the last days the Fetsival Dialogu Czterech Kultur (Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures) has taken place in Lodz. Well, I can´t explain the whole history of Lodz here, but there have been and still are many Russian Jewish German and of course Polish People in Lodz...this festival is a pretty cool thing with many free events, predominently concerts. I ´ve also seen two old Russian silent movies that have just been found and were forbidden when they were made so they were shown for the first time legally ( I hope this information is right,I`m rellying on tranlations....).
ok enough for today, I have my first Polish lesson tomorrow morning and I got a pass for the brittish council´s library yesterday: there are things to be read about intercultural learning in Poland. AND articles about quantitative and/or qualitative research that I got from my project`s coodinator.