So let's see...what did I promise to write about.

The parents meeting
Little over one week ago both mine and my boyfriend's parents visited us. They haven't met before, so at least my parents were a bit nervous. Maybe they would have been nervous anyway, but I think that the fact that they had speak English made it even more exciting. The first dinner together was ok, not anything special, just asking basic things and then akward silence. :P But already second night was better, and in the end I think the meeting was very "succesful". They invited each others to Finland and Germany next summer, so I guess that was the result I was looking for, haha.

It was nice to see my parents and show them where I live. I think now they feel more comfortable with the fact that I moved here. They liked the city, it's very different to Helsinki for example, with the Rynek and it's old, pretty buildings and dozens of old huge churches around the city. On the first day my dad said that beside the city center it looks more battered than he would have thought. Maybe I'm just use to it because I don't seem to notice that. And he was also wondering why they are building so many huge new buildings here.That I have been wondering too...
My parents were interested on different kind of cultural events here, and they will be back for sure. But maybe after winter. ;)

The job and the Polish course
For these two weeks that I have been working at the hostel, I've mostly liked it. I like to have something to do at work, for example the receptionist's job does not seem so interesting anymore, they are just sitting by the computer all day, not having too much to do. Of course cleaning poo from the toilets, changing sheets and taking trashes out is not my dream job. But while searching the dream job, this is ok. And I always wanted to work in a hostel, just to see how it is. One more dream accomplished! :)

The polish course has been fun. People there are relaxed, but mostly motivated and also my own motivation is very different than learning languages at school. I really want to make effort to learn the basics of this language. And 'till now it also has been quite easy. :)

Last week

Making soap bubbles.

The week was normal; work, Polish, coffee meeting at one Finnish family's place and Thursday meeting with other "international" people. On Friday we went to opera for the first time in our lifes. The opera was "Magic flute" by Mozart. I'm glad I read the story in advance, since I would have not understood anything about the German singing with Polish subtitles. But it was not too easy for my German speaking boyfriend either. ;) As a conclusion I would say, that it was worth trying but the next opera could be, let's say, in 20 years. :P Meanwhile I wanna see some musical and maybe even go to theatre.

Frankie's Juice Bar.

On Friday night I got a flu out from nowhere, at least it seems like that. Anyhow we had busy Saturday, I had to work, then we went for BBQ at my boyfriend's colleague's house and in the evening we had some friends coming over for drinks. Even I tried if vodka shot would help to cure the flu, I had to give up around eleven and go to bed. On sunday I had to work again, there was shortage of people this weekend at the hostel, and after that I felt completely dead. Fortunately I was able to get this Monday free, so now I'm trying to take it easy and hoping that tomorrow the flu will be gone. Because tomorrow is Oktoberfest here in Wroclaw! ;)

Fitting the traditional Bavarian clothes.

Picture vomit...

Because I am a very busy person (read lazy) I will just add punch of pictures from last weekend when my parents were here. Stories come later...maybe ;)

Sunday market

Plac Jana Pawla II

Modern time gnome.

Rynek

Boat trip

Hala Stulecia

Zoo

Angry tiger :O

The best toilet entertainment in Pierogarnia.

Wroclaw railway station

German consulate - the reason why I'm in here :P

Hala Targowa - market hall

University building

First night's dinner in Chopper

Gnome ate too much...

Multimedia fountain

Katedra Wroclawska

View from the tower of the cathedral

Ostrów Tumski

I have not been this busy since I don't even remember.

Where to start....

So not so long time ago I was complaining about not having a job. And now I do. :) I got lucky, I was sending applications to some hostels in Wroclaw, and got one answer the next day. And yesterday was my first day, so say hello to the new housekeeper of Grampa's Hostel!

 It's just few hours five days a week, so I will get only some small money from it. But one groszy is a start of a million zlotys, right? ;) And anyway I believe there can be some other things gained from this job than just money. But more about that later...

The other new thing is the Polish course I started yesterday. Hopefully I will be able to order my beers in Polish before Christmas. :D Anyway the course was kinda expensive so I guess my motivation will and should be different than on German and Swedish lessons in the middle school... And I get to take my new skills in use right away! But don't worry, I don't see this blog changing in Polish anytime soon. :P There is only three other persons on this course, so everyone will get enough attention from the teacher for sure. I already noticed that I'm not the only one having some problems with the pronunciation, it seems to be hard for the native English speakers too...

The third and the best thing on this busy week is that my parents are here! So I get show the little tourist guide inside me, yei!. Also my boyfriend's parents will come here tomorrow, so we will see what kind of soup comes when you put everything together (I don't think there is a saying like this in English, but in Finnish it would be "Aikamoinen soppa.") :D So we are planning to have three dinners together, we'll see how it goes. I will tell you later. :) I will also play tourist and see some new sights in Wroclaw; I want  to go to zoo, and for a cruise along the river Odra. And really I want to see view of Wroclaw from up, there is a tower in city center where it should be possible. So I guess there should be lots of pictures coming next week!

WARNING: If you don't believe in baby pink love stories, stop reading.

I wanted to write little bit about my life here with my honey bunny, because it's likely that someday in future everything is not so baby pink and lovely as it is now in the beginning. So then I can read this post and remind myself what is it all about.

We both were living long time alone and at least I am pretty private person. But since I met my boyfriend there has not been a single moment that I would rather spend alone than with him. We moved together when we did not really know each other so much. But somehow you just know...

We have not had a single fight or nothing even close, even thou we are together a lot and we've been travelling, tired, hungry and had enourmous need to go to toilet. :D I know how this sounds. I am definetely not a person who thinks that relationship without fights is a perfect relationship. But I don't see any reason to upset the one I love, if there is no need. And there has not been.

Whether we travel or just stay at home or go to some events, we always have same plan in mind. We don't really have to discuss or make compromises because we want to do same things anyway. Everytime I see him, in the morning when I open my eyes, when he comes home from work, or off from shower (no, we don't shower together, not every time at least ;) ) I smile. And I'm so glad he is there and that he is mine.

There is one thing thou, one small crack in perfectness. :D He likes football and all the other sports there is: tennis, rugby, american football, hockey, baseball, boxing, athletics... you name it he knows all about it. I'm not too into this kind of stuff. But somehow I've managed to watch more football than ever before in my life, or actually sports in general. I will not say I would love it or that I would even like it, but I've learned to tolerate it. But when I see how important it is for him and how passionate he is about it, it becomes kinda weirdly lovable feature. :D

Because I am a realistic person (or pessimistic) I've been trying to think what will be the topic of our very first fight. My best guess is the football, but we'll see. I will let you know. ;)

But in mean time I will enjoy this dream, that seems to be far more wonderful than I ever imagined. <3

And to conclude this post here is Mr. Ron Pope with Perfect for me.

Three months holiday.

Long time, no see. I had somekind of motivation problems to write. For sure I have not been too busy :P

So I was back in Finland for two weeks, finally my boyfriend met my parents and my friends. Everything went well, just as I thought, everybody liked each others and so on. :) And we also were in London for a week for Olympics. That was amazing too, London is much nicer city than I thought. (I've been there before, but only for few days.) I could imagine living there someday.

Anyway, the point of my sudden writing motivation burst is not to tell about the travelling but...

After coming back to Wroclaw, I started to feel somehow different. First I was not sure what is this feeling, but finally I got it. I want a job! Before I was sure I can go on like this, cooking, cleaning, running, doing nothing, forever, but no. It seems enough is enough even in free time. I miss the feeling after work, when you know you've earned your free time. Right now I feel very guilty for example just watching TV or laying in sun. I feel like I should be somehow beneficial every minute of the day.

I miss the feeling that somebody or something is 'forcing' me to be useful, because for this kind of person like me with very little self-discipline, it is hard to do by myself. So most of the time I'm just thinking I should do something and feeling bad about myself because I'm not. :D

I also miss complaining. Oh god, how I miss it! Because a person who does not go to work, who does not have to get up early in the morning or actually at all, does not have a right to complain about anything. At least that's how I feel...

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

Today I have been here exactly four weeks. Time has passed so fast. Even I'm not working and I still don't know too much people here, I've not been bored at all. Days go by sleeping, cleaning, cooking, shopping, sunbathing, watching TV, facebooking and reading and I'm wondering how I ever had time to go to work. :P (I can hear you hard-working people cursing my lazy ass there...) The only thing that keeps bothering me is that I gave myself a permission to enjoy this time without working and still every day I feel bad because I'm not "useful". I hope I can get rid of that feeling before the time is over..

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.”

It is amazing how it can feel so good with somebody all the time, every day, every minute. You would think that if you put two persons who are used to live alone, living in the same apartment and spend all the free time together, they would get sick of each other in some point. But at least these four weeks have been wonderful and everyday feels better than before. I realize that this propably will not go on like this forever, but now I really cannot see any reason why not.

Quotes by A. A. Milne.

Poznan.

Last weekend we started our summer 2012 mini-holidays. Which means weekend trips to various cities near by. First destination was Poznan, a Polish city about 150 kilometers from here. On friday afternoon temperature here in Wroclaw was something +30, so three hours in non-air-conditioned Polish train did not sound too tempting. But in the end it was not that bad...

I still cannot understand how is it possible that these trains are so slow. But at least you arrive to your destination according the schedule or even a little bit too early, which is not always the case with Finnish railways. :P

Our hotel was a bit out of city center, but it was cheap and had own outdoor swimming pool. The idea of jumping in the pool was keeping me alive during the sweaty, endless journey...

The hotel was located near Lake Malta, where you can find all kinds of activities. After saturday's hotel breakfast <3 we borrowed bikes from the hotel and cycled around the lake. Nice to see some nature sometimes too. ;)

Center of Poznan was really pretty, market square reminded a lot of Wroclaw's. After picking up a tourist guide we started our Poznan day tour. Besides the market squre we saw super-cute alleys and amazing Fara church. The end station of our tour was a shopping mall built in old brewery. We had late lunch in cute restaurant called Weranda. Later we tested their Mojitos in near by park where they have small terrace.

On sunday it was time to go back to the train station. Luckily the train was a bit newer than the first one so we could make ourselfs comfortable in our (almost private) booth. In the end Poznan was for sure worth of visiting, even despite over 6 hours of travelling.