Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Today in Krakow.

We had a speaker this morning who has been an entrepreneur in Poland for about 19 years and is originally from the U.K. He is recently running 5 different businesses that he has started as a consultant but not as the C.E.O. He said that he was the C.E.O. for a while but it wasn't his cup of tea. His presentation was very scatter brained and hard to follow and was probably my least favorite thus far. I took as many notes as I possibly could which I will blog about later but did not find it as one of the best business visits yet.

Right after this business visit I got lunch and toured the city a little bit with my laundry. We came upon this place that was a bar, a laundry mat, an art exhibit, a cafe and lounge. WOW. The lady running the place had awesome taste in music and it was no wonder because typically the places that I like to go always have great taste in music. She did all of my laundry for the price of $13 which was a steel in my opinion. We came back to the hotel and visited the Jewish District of Poland which now the country only makes up 5,000 Jews total. This location had the oldest temple in Poland where they actually managed to maintain the Jewish Cemetery because the assured the Germans who were superstitious that if they destroyed this holy part of town there would be a curse on their ancestors forever. There was also a Jewish Museum that we toured that had many dresses and set ups of the old homes that used to reside in the area before many of them were destroyed during WWII. WWII took a mighty toll on all of Europe destroy much of the past areas and history that we can not see today. The actually city of Krakow was unscathed because the Germans loved the city and thought it to be beautiful and wanted to take over the Wawel palace as their own once they took over all of Europe.

After touring all of the Jewish district and walking for countless hours we came back to the main market square and had an early dinner. I had a Kabob once again which I love but I am unfortunately getting tired of. For dessert I had this specialty Waffle dish that the Polish eat which was an enormous waffle covered in whipped cream and strawberry jam with powdered sugar. As my friend Kyle and I walked through the street of Poland in the main market square I had my face covered in this delicious dessert and was being made fun of by the locals because of the ridiculous mess that I was making. I didn't care because of how good it tasted. After I devoured this Picked up an awesome pair of white European sun glasses that I plan to wear out for our night at Sensation in Prague which is supposed to be one of the biggest techno party tours in all of Europe. I went back to the laundry mat and had a cup of coffee with the locals there while I marveled at the wonderful job that was done on my laundry. They thought I was from the U.K. and I just went with it. I have been telling people when we go out that I am from Germany and it works a lot better than telling them I am American. I just want to be able to be with them in a manner that makes it easiest for me to be friends knowing that they will have a grudge against me if I don't. I just want to be their friends but apparently there is a lot of bad sentiment between "uncultured" Americans and the Europeans.

Tonight I plan to go out and have more fun with the locals. God's speed.

2 comments:

  1. HUASHAUHSUHASHUSA I think u could be a comedian =) I laughed a lot with ur post, very nice ;) and hell yeah polish sweets and desserts are the best. Have fun at polish night clubs they are awesomEEE ;)

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  2. Think you could have included in your post "while $13 is a terrific price to transform my dirty laundry, I must note the best price I have not been able to match anywhere in the world comes from an amazing woman in Atlanta, Georgia." LOL
    BTW, you are German :)

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