Street Art

Despite the ugly grafitis you can also see well done street art in Poland. Today it was a sunny day so I rode around the city center and took pictures of visible street art.

Dressing room behaviour

In Poland I have been going to gym and playing floorball in a team. Naturally after doing sports you take a shower. I noticed that in Poland everybody likes to walk to shower in their underwear and take them off once they are in the shower. As in Finland you remove all of your clothes and put a towel around you if you want to cover yourself on the way to the shower.

5 Reasons why I do not like traveling

Camden London

I think that I have traveled a decent amount so far. As I have lived in 5 different countries you could assume that I love to travel but here I have listed 5 things why I do not like traveling so much.

1. You cannot practice sport. I like to play floorball, football, volleyball or something else but during travelling practicing sports is more challenging.

2. You have to be catching public transportation. When I decide to travel somewhere I am most worried if I arrive on time to airport, train station or bus station. Once I have caught the transportation I can relax.
3. A lot of walking. Travelling involves usually a lot of walking around from one spot to another and I am not a big fan of walking. I rather go by bicycle.
4.You just see a little scratch of the local life. When you just travel and not actually live in the place you cannot get to know the place and people very well. By staying at least few months you get to know the place, people and the culture much better.
5. Tourist spots. Traveling involves often visiting many sight seeing spots and museums. I am not very interested in museums or waiting a long time in a line to see some little object.

Graffitis

Few graffitis

In Poland you can see many ugly graffitis.You can find grafifittis on the walls of flats, on the walls or basically on any public building. Graffitis have been covered maybe few times but soon there is another one done on the covered one. Especially graffitis of Widzew and Łks are popular. Widzew and Łks are the local football clubs. So there is very little respect on the buildings in
Poland.

Beautiful Polish Women

Polish women have the reputation of being the most beautiful women of the world. One Mexican friend of mine even stated that 80 % women could be considered good looking. I think that the beauty of Polish women is exaggerated. Though I admit that style of Polish women is more feminine compared to style of Finnish women. Especially during the night all women are wearing a nice dress and high heels. Also during the day high heels are much more common in the street picture of Poland than in Finland. It is also rare to see alternative looks what you can see in Hel Looks. Having colored hair is also quite common like in Finland. All women are not skinny and you can see naturally women of all sizes.

Ekstra league finished

League phase of Polish Ekstra league is now finished. There are three teams which are superior compared to other teams. The rest of the teams are quite equal but clearly behind the top teams. Our team ULKS Jozefina finished last by collecting 5 points. In the play offs we will face league winner MUKS Zielonka. Our chances to win against Zielonka are tiny.

I started the season as a left winger and played last 6 matches as a defender. I made 3 goals and assisted 5 in 14 league matches. Playing as a defender was more enjoyable because I could have the ball much more. Probably the stick handling is not the biggest problem of the team. I see looking free space and moving without the ball much bigger problem.

Some snow

Finally some snow which seems to stay more than just one day on the ground. I saw also few snow plows taking care of the snow. At least here they seem to be taking better care of the snowy streets than in Turkey. Though I noticed that here they use a lot of salt compared to Finland. Salt makes snow melt and therefore riding a bike was much more harder on wet snow than it would be on hard snow. Bike lane and pedestrian street was not taken as good care as in Finland so I think I will be using public transportation instead of bike when there is snow on the ground.

Finnish language lessons offered in Poland

I did a little experiment by publishing a Finnish language lesson advertisement in one Polish website. I wanted to find out if there would be anyone interested in learning Finnish. I put double price compared to all the other language lessons offered in the website so I was not expecting to be contacted many times. I got contacted by three person who were interested in taking private Finnish lessons. Also two recruiting agencies approached me and offered me a job interview for a full time job where fluent Finnish was a requirement. I did not end up giving lessons to anybody as I have already full time job and I want to have also free time. Probably I could have started giving Finnish lessons if I would be ready to offer the lessons with the same price as other teachers who are offering private lessons in other languages.

Top Posts 2013

Green Horizon

This year I have been less productive blogger than previous years but still I am going to name the top posts of the year 2013.

1. Different drinking habits in different countries
2. Some people are more friendly in Facebook than other
3. I had a chance to visit Germany and see my friends there
4. Awful Polish way to make movies understandable
5. Playing floorball in Polish ekstraliga

Top posts from the previous years 2012, 2011 and 2010.

Disco polo

Disco polo is a music genre in Poland and it resembles Euro dance. You can hear disco polo especially in Polish weddings. There are clubs dedicated to only disco polo and also a music channel which plays only Disco polo. Though in a trendy/fashionable clubs disco polo is not played at all. Disco polo has a reputation of trash music so the most of the people say that they hate disco polo. Here one example song.