Joseph comes today. He is in Paris right now. His flight leaves there at 11 and heads here. Should get here about 1:20-ish.
I'll leave for the airport around 11 and take the train there. Kind of exciting. Guess we will see how the week goes.
AND he has all my stuff that I've asked him to bring from the states here.... hope it all makes it haha.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Craziest Cinema Experience EVER...yet.
Ok, so I haven't posted ina while, which is no big deal because nobody really reads this thing anyway. For the spirits of the great beyond that read my blog here it goes.
It was 63 degrees today. Something that Polish and Russian people call "Grandmother's Summer." Gorgeous weather! I walked into the square area and finally walked up the hill and into the complex of Wawel Castle. It's humongous and amazing. There were some people in there taking wedding pictures, playing in the leaves on one of the lawns. It was super sweet.
Ok, I digress.
There is a cinema here in town that is actually retrofitted into 2 mansion townhouses just off the main square. I like the place and it normally specializes in Polish and European films. I saw a film I wanted to see there called Mary and Max, an Austrailan film with Toni Collett. The synopsis sounded great and I bought a ticket. This is a small place in terms of being a cinema, so the ticket was only 15zloty... basically 5 bucks.
I walk around town for a bit since I bought the ticket about 2 hours in advance. I get back to the cinema, get a medium combo with Pepsi... yuck, seriously Pepsi??? I go upstairs and am directed to the screen on the left. This screen is in a tiny room, probably a former bedroom in the mansion. There are about 15 chairs, not cinema seat, but like office chairs that you sit in when you visit someone's office. The stationary kind, not the rolly kind. I pick a spot and there are about 10-12 other people in there.
They start the projector, one of the old time reel projectors not a Hi-def one!!!! The sound of the projector moving the reel is almost louder than the sound that is coming from the speaker. I don't read Polish, so I have to listen to the words.
They have to hange the reel 2 times during the movie after it's started. The movie was amazing... sad, but amazing! It's based on a true story and is about Asberger's Syndrome, the highy specialized for of Autism.
I just thought it was crazy being in such a tiny room, with no real seats. I'm not complaining by any means. It was pretty cool. It felt as if we had all gathered there to screen a movie for a festival or something.
I watched one movie there before, but it was in a different room. That room was previously a former ballroom, which has been retrofitted with a larger screen than the one tonight. It also had real theater seats.
Tomorrow there's a movie I want to go se called "Wasteland." It's about the largest landfill in the world, outside of Rio in Brazil and the people who live there. It sounds amazing and the previews look fantastic. It is screened in another place though. I went there today and tried to find the box office, but couldn't. I found a former ticket booth. If I decide to go to it tomorrow, I might have to actually climb the stairs and see if it's in there.
It was 63 degrees today. Something that Polish and Russian people call "Grandmother's Summer." Gorgeous weather! I walked into the square area and finally walked up the hill and into the complex of Wawel Castle. It's humongous and amazing. There were some people in there taking wedding pictures, playing in the leaves on one of the lawns. It was super sweet.
Ok, I digress.
There is a cinema here in town that is actually retrofitted into 2 mansion townhouses just off the main square. I like the place and it normally specializes in Polish and European films. I saw a film I wanted to see there called Mary and Max, an Austrailan film with Toni Collett. The synopsis sounded great and I bought a ticket. This is a small place in terms of being a cinema, so the ticket was only 15zloty... basically 5 bucks.
I walk around town for a bit since I bought the ticket about 2 hours in advance. I get back to the cinema, get a medium combo with Pepsi... yuck, seriously Pepsi??? I go upstairs and am directed to the screen on the left. This screen is in a tiny room, probably a former bedroom in the mansion. There are about 15 chairs, not cinema seat, but like office chairs that you sit in when you visit someone's office. The stationary kind, not the rolly kind. I pick a spot and there are about 10-12 other people in there.
They start the projector, one of the old time reel projectors not a Hi-def one!!!! The sound of the projector moving the reel is almost louder than the sound that is coming from the speaker. I don't read Polish, so I have to listen to the words.
They have to hange the reel 2 times during the movie after it's started. The movie was amazing... sad, but amazing! It's based on a true story and is about Asberger's Syndrome, the highy specialized for of Autism.
I just thought it was crazy being in such a tiny room, with no real seats. I'm not complaining by any means. It was pretty cool. It felt as if we had all gathered there to screen a movie for a festival or something.
I watched one movie there before, but it was in a different room. That room was previously a former ballroom, which has been retrofitted with a larger screen than the one tonight. It also had real theater seats.
Tomorrow there's a movie I want to go se called "Wasteland." It's about the largest landfill in the world, outside of Rio in Brazil and the people who live there. It sounds amazing and the previews look fantastic. It is screened in another place though. I went there today and tried to find the box office, but couldn't. I found a former ticket booth. If I decide to go to it tomorrow, I might have to actually climb the stairs and see if it's in there.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Grad School Admission
Just a quick little thing to say that I am finally, officially, a degree-seeking candidate at University of Louisiana Monroe. I am working toward obtaining my masters in Curriculum and Instruction ESL. So yay! Finally!
I have a few pics and things to post fro walking around Krakow this past weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to get that done soon.
I have a few pics and things to post fro walking around Krakow this past weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to get that done soon.
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