Sunday, October 5, 2008

back from poland..

We had a great time in poland!
We took a night train on thursday night that left at 9:30 and got us there about 6:45 the next morning. Although it wasn't quite as simple of a ride as we were expecting...

We all figured that we would get on the train here in Prague and then get off the train in Krakow, but we were wrong. After about 4 hours of unsuccessfully trying to sleep, our train stopped. We weren't worried at first, we figured that we were just at another station picking some more people up. But we started getting a little worried when, after about 15 minutes, the train started moving back towards prague... It had started to rain a little at this point, so my roommate Andy and I stuck our heads out the window to talk (we were in seperate rooms). After a second I turned to get back in the car, it was then that i noticed that our entire train was no longer attached to us! there was only us, one other car, and the engine (and we were still going in the wrong direction)... luckily after a second we stopped, then started going back in the right direction (apparantly they were just switching tracks). But we finally got back to the station, stopped laughing, and started trying to figure out what was going on.
We found some guy and showed him our tickets and he told us that we were on the right train though, so that put our minds at ease and we all went back and continued trying to sleep. After about 30 minutes some guy came in, threw open our door, and demanded our tickets. Then he starts saying, "wrong train," and pointing at the train that we used to be attached to...
So we loaded up all our stuff and went to the other train only to find that there was no empty rooms left.. We found 2 empty rooms in the first class cabin and figured that we would ride it out as long as we could.. Unfortunately that didn't last long. After about 45 minutes they came and told us that we were in the wrong car and we needed to go back to second class.. Luckily we were able to pile in with some random polish guy and were able to ride out the last several hours till we got to krakow..

I actually forgot to tell you about the drunk guy that came into our car too! at about 2:30 in the morning, some polish guy came in and sat with us. It took about 2 seconds to tell that he was pretty intoxicated, and i am not sure if you could tell faster from looking or smelling. But he stayed with us for about 20 minutes, the whole time trying to give us beers that he kept getting from somewhere in his bag. Then he finally left, but he only moved one room down so we could still hear him perfectly (he wasn't exactly using his inside voice).

I have class here in a little bit though, so i will write about the rest of the trip later...

1 comment:

AJ said...

Annie gave me this site. Sounds like you are having fun and learning alot. Miss you.
AJ (Aunt Jerri)