It has been so cool hearing everyone talk about our President as he's been on this side of the world. Watching CNN and reading the articles on ABC, I get to go, "Hey! I've been there!" as Barak went through Prague, and "I'll be there soon!"as he entered the London-Stansted airport. Some friends of mine were saying how proud they were that he chose their country to go visit and speak at. It made little sunshine rays shoot from me from the inside out. To realize, finally, that you are living within history is a cool feeling. Me and 4 friends went for a day trip outside of Wroclaw yesterday to Opole. The town is not even in my Lonely Planet for Poland. The train tickets were cheap and we wanted to be able to say that we did something over Easter Break so we headed out early and planned to return in the evening. When we got there we walked around a bit, a bit more than we wanted because we recieved bad directions from the first woman we asked, but we made it to Opole's rynek. Because of the holiday, everything was closed or closing early. We jumped in a restaurant to grab some food then came back out and thought, well what do we do now? We went to the park, which was adorable and clean, and laid down. We just laid in the park for hours talking and listening to the radio. I got a good nap in. It was great not having an itinerary for museums and sites. We aquired a friend as a little girl about 4 years old came and scared my friend as she slept. She gave each of us flowers and one of my other friends tried to speak Polish with her but she just replied, "nah na nan nah." We walked around a bit more then hopped the train home. I add it up as a sucessful trip. Here in Poland, Easter Monday is known as Wet Monday. Appearently the locals throw water on each other to celebrate the day. It's mainly little kids attacking unsuspecting adults and guys getting girls when they least expect it. So I don't really plan on heading outside my room that day. :-P Things are so quiet in the streets below our dorm, and the dorm is almost empty. I have to say it's nice. I doubt there will be any other time when Plac Grunwaldzki will be this devoid of cars.
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