Relaxing

The rest of the Halloween weekend was pretty relaxing.  Got a lot of studying done.  Monday was All Saint's Day.  The people here goes to the cemeteries and place candles on all the headstones of their loved ones.  At night the view is spectacular.

You can see some of the candles, blurry as it was taken from Tomek's car

Monday night we went to a local bar.  They had this beer that tasted like alcoholic Coca Cola.  I thought it was delicious.  It is customary to serve women beer with straws, also it is common to put flavored syrup in their beers also.  

At the bar

From R to L: Mikoj, Fil, El Professor, Tomek, Ola (holding straw in beer)

In the morning at about 0630 Tomek, Fil and I went to meet some friends at the stadium.  They were waiting to purchase Manchester City v Lech Poznan tickets.  They were waiting there since 0300.  The line was crazy long, we were no more than 200 people from the beginning of the line.  There were 3 other places where the tickets were being sold.  Man City got half of the ~50,000 tickets.  Season ticket holders got first dibs, then the others went on sale on Tuesday.  There was a limit of 10 tickets per person.  To prevent scalping, one was to present the passport number of the person who the ticket was for, thus preventing people from selling the tickets to random people for large amounts of zlotys.  Unfortunately, as we were near the front of the line, they sold out.  We were very sad and surprised.  There is another game in the near future against Juventus we might get tickets to.

The large line

Fil and I have been recently eating at this cheap place right by his house.  They have traditional Polish dishes and the food is very good.  You can get chicken, potatoes, soup, and juice for about 12zl or $4.  We have been making it a daily occurrence.  The place used to be a place where the poor could get healthy food for not too much.  Still, people can buy food with food-stamp type tickets.  It is kind of strange getting food from a place like this while being in medical school and the guy in front of you looks homeless and presents a food ticket but the food is really good.  Often times the crowd there is quite interesting, but that has not deterred us!