Monday, March 16, 2009

Jumping Borders


Where the time goes here, I have no idea. I can't remember if I've said that in a previous entry but it still blows my mind.
Both times that I've crossed Poland's border there's been passport trouble. Coming back from Berlin, my friend from France had lost her ID card which let's her cross borders pretty much everywhere (except Russia I think). We were worried she wouldn't make it back into Poland. Luckily, for whatever reason, the Polish border guards decided not to check out cabin for our passports. Again, this time coming back from Prague, two of my friend's from Scotland had forgotten their passports. Czech Republic enforced a fine and luckily the Polish guards accepted this as suffice and no trouble ensued. I'm glad Poland has nice border guards, this makes me wonder what other border guards are like at other countries. 
Seeing other types of currency is really cool, and when the conversion is in favor of the dollar it's even cooler. The hard part is learning what the average cost of things are, how much a beer is, dinner, a postcard... I know when I get back onto the dollar I'm still going to go, "ok now this is how many dollars...oh yea." But for the most part I'll be happy not to have to do a series of arithmetic every time I go grocery shopping.

No comments:

Post a Comment