Nice Tuesday

Tuesday after class I went with a friend back to his apartment.  He has a nice place between school and downtown, not more than 15 minute walk near a lot of food and other interesting places.  We got a few beers and basically relaxed.  His cousin came over who is in his 6th and final year in Med school at Poznan.  He is doing the Polish version.  In Poland, there is only a 6 year program.  Some of his other friends came over so there were around 10 of us.  It was great meeting older people in the same program.  This one guy who I call the professor because he was going to teach anatomy but his english is not good enough to conduct classes unfortunately.  He is, from what a hear, a genius.  Everyone who came over brought bottles of vodka with them, very typical here.  We finished all the bottles in quick fashion.  After that we decided to go out so we went to some place by the Stary Rynek and that was very fun.  We continued to drink there and once it died down the professor, his friend, and I went to find a different club. Since it was Tuesday, there was not very many club options so we ended up going back to the professor's dorm room.  He lives in the large dorm very close to my room.  We continued to drink there, vodka of course, until the sun came up.  We had great conversation regarding medicine.  We finally finished shooting vodka at 745 am and I literally ran home to grab my things and made it to my class at 8am.  I attended all my classes today and I have biology later.  Impressive!  In Poland what some people do is hit the unopened vodka bottle on their palm, elbow, and then forehead in one quick swoop to knock out the impurities or demons in the bottle before you drink it.

This is the professor doing this nifty trick.  As you could imagine, I am extremely tired from getting no sleep and am not really looking forward to my next class but the night was definitely worth it.  Good times in Poland, now to study and eat a little bit of food.  Dobry Wiezcor.