Monday, April 26, 2010

Krakow


The airports opened the morning of our flight to Poland, most people in out group had already made other plans and could no longer attend. So with about 15 of us remaining we set off.

We stayed right in the market square in Krakow at Mama's hostel, which was super cheap and really nice. I woke up every morning at 8am and went for sweets and irish coffee while i waited for everyone else to get up from partying the night before. We all ate the greatest food (meat meat meat) and drank a ton because everything was soo cheap. we couldnt pronounce the currency so we referred to it as salamies ( a close pronunciation), basically we spent 1 dollar per drink in bars, some bars had deals for 50 cent shots (this caused us to be out drinking until 8am one night). one afternoon I went out with Allard (classmate) and we had a steak dinner, flaming sambucca, a polish long ice tea (just make all the alcohol woda and double the quantity), apple pie, 2 beers, whiskey and some mix drinks for 12 bucks each !! so you get the idea, very cheap.

The only downside to the trip was everyone sleeping in, didnt matter when the party ended, the latest i slept in was 930 because someone had purposely turned off my alarm to make me be quite in the morning :p
We managed to get out to Auschwitz for a day, its about a 2 hour train from Krakow, I dont think any of us were quite the same for a couple days after that; its a good thing drinks were cheap, we needed them.

anyways lots of site seeing, food, meeting random people, partying until the sun comes up and soaking up some interesting culture (and lbs :P) I've starting posting some pics on flickr, the link is below

Pictures at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonmader/sets/72157623934614268/

Monday, April 19, 2010

I know I know

I know I haven't posted anything lately, but thats because im super busy with projects and am having some real problems with (for lack of a better word) useless group members that call me at 3am begging me to do their work :s.
anyways i saw this out the window this morning and thought it was pretty funny

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonmader/4533633493/

gotta go do someone elses work

toodles

Jason

Sunday, April 11, 2010

New food


I got really sick of eating cabbage and fish, but had to keep mostly to my diet, so I made some hotdogs wrapped in turnip peels. I was almost like eating a real hotdog in a bun (not that there is anything real about a hotdog... meh :)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Finally went hiking!


Didn't go as far as I wanted to because I have more work to do, but I did manage to get about 5 hours in. I brought the kvikk lunsj bar that nick gave me, it seems that all norwegians eat these things when they are hiking, so I thought I was tag along.

Oh, I also managed to drink a lot of water, I mean A LOT, today. It all hit me at once when I was on the trail and I managed to pee my pants before I could get them down in time. Maybe lack of bladder control is a sing of old age? doesnt really matter, I haven't done that in years; it made me feel young again :p

pics from the walk are up at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonmader/