It was getting late and we were already very hungry so everyone was happy to see sign post to Lofou (Λόφου) where I had planned dining in a “traditional taverna”. We got there quickly and without wandering around, as from the very beginning of the town there were signs pointing to it. It has to be – otherwise no one would find it in the labyrinth of narrow streets of Lofou. The owner asked whether we wanted menus or meze. Meze, of course, was our dream that day.
There is a huge, majestic volcano in the very heart of Iceland. People call it Askja and this name somehow makes you respect it before you actually see it. For me Askja means real interior, a lonely and silent beauty in the middle of a desolate land. When I first met her (it’s feminin in Icelandic), I was welcomed by the severest weather I could imagine… nevertheless I fell nothing but awe when I think of that day.
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On my way to La Clusaz, while dining in a chinese restaurant in Genève, I got enlightened that CERN is so close that it would be a pity not to visit it. To physicists CERN is almost what Mecca is to Muslim people – a symbol of unification, friendly cooperation, several Nobel price winners home and a place where impossible means you just have to work a bit harder on it. It is where the Internet was born, many particles were discovered (making it even harder to understand the basic principles of our Universe) and where the famous Large Hadron Colider has been working for a couple of months.
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Two years ago I was in the middle of my MIT preparations: studying for SAT II’s and TOEFL, looking forward to my interview, writing and polishing my essays, spending hours reading mitadmissions.org and, in general, getting more and more crazy about the famous university. That was two years ago…
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I can’t wait. Oh, maybe that’s usual for me but… now I’m dying from impatience!
What is known:
I’m flying with my family to the Land of Ice and Fire,
I’ll spend there 14 days traveling around the island,
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As we drove to Jyväskylä, the scenery changed: swamps appeared, there were more lakes and more birches. It looked quite similar to southern Norway.
In the city we met Ville and Kaisa, two couchsurfers who offered showing us around. Oh, be careful: self-service gas stations don’t accept foreign cards such as Visa or Maestro. Our Finns took us to a place with name that I’ve forgotten, though I remember the translation: “chicken mountain”. Continue Reading »
Even though I think that there are really a few things impossible for me, sometimes I have to give up. Or, as it is written above, postpone a dream until somewhere in the future. Continue Reading »
After playing 335 games on Polish tournaments, I finally made it to the top100, woohoo! Here you can have a look at it (I’m currently 73rd). Nothing to be proud of, really, but it’s nice to see that there’s been some progress since I started playing. Continue Reading »
If most Finish campsites are like our first one, I wouldn’t recommend sleeping in a hotel. I couldn’t ask for more. As soon as we parked our car, I ran to a sauna (an evening in Finland without sauna is a wasted evening, isn’t it?). However, it wasn’t the time yet to try a real smoke sauna, this one was electric and I couldn’t make it boiling hot – every time I put some water on stones, the vapor would vanish after 15 seconds. Continue Reading »
I’ll start with complaining. As I walked into one of compartments (I don’t know if you have such things in other parts of the world – most wagons are divided into smaller structures, each of which consists of 6 to 8 seats) I asked politely if there are any free places. Everyone started looking around (mostly on their feet), shaking their heads in random directions and trying to look like I-don’t-know-probably-there-aren’t. Continue Reading »
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