Slupca

Before travelling to Slupca,I was a bit apprehensive as not many people in Srem had heard of Slupca and also after looking for information about Slupca online, i found the website but it was all in polish and later found on wikipedia that the town had only had 14,600 people living in it. However that feeling changed when we reached Slupca and there were around 10 people waiting for us on the platform at the train station.

Heres a picture of Lia,Rii and me with our hosts and a teacher from the high school...

My host was also named Peter and later i realised that he was just as crazy as me. We got along really well and his family was great especially Peter's 10 month old nephew Stanislaus.

The school organised a lot of activities for us and we barely had any free time.The first day was a trip to Biskupin, which is a old town an hour away from Slupca. We learnt how to make pots and also looked around the museum and also models of the houses.

The second day after school we learnt how to cook Polish food. The students from the high school taught us how to make Zurek,Schabowy and also Chruściki.

We got to interact with other students from the high school in a informal environment, there were around 20 students at the dinner.

On Wednesday we met with the Staros of Slupca and i felt a bit uncomfortable as the meeting was too formal. There was also people from the local media (TV station and radio).We had the rest of the day off and the students invited us for a "house party". I learnt how high school students in smaller towns spent their weekends...

On our last day we went to Konin after school. We went bowling and later to the cinema to watch the movie "Nine". I have not been bowling in a while so it was fun althought i started off with a few gutter balls. I enjoyed the song and dance in the movie but did not care much for the story.Later in the night we had a cooking session at Peter's house. Lia cooked Indonesia food "Fried rice" and i cooked Indian food, Tandoori chicken and

mushroom with green peas. It was a lot of fun. We made the most of our last night in Slupca.

Soon after school on Friday we headed back to Warsaw for "Switch", more on that in my next post.

I had a great time in Slupca and I think i will have to make another trip back sometime soon...

here are some more pictures from Slupca...