Uniwersytet Warszawski (UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW)

Cafe Brama is a very good place to meet people, like the Irish pub next to the Kolumna Zygmunta (I don´t remember right now the name); Club Proxima and Park discos are places with a varieted programme on night music (every night a different style of music); I would say that even a bar meleczny (milky bar) is a good place for eating ... er ... Polish tipycal "food" and involve a bit more inthe big city of Warsaw

When I lived in "Akademik Radomska-Ochota" in Warsaw, we enjoyed a recently re-built building, so it was in perfect conditions; we had some furniture for us as well and all the erasmus students lived almost at the same floor; that made easier the contact among us. But it take some months for the university office to translate us from Hotel Hera, our first residence, to Radomska. There wasn´t very good organisation. I have to complaint that all the erasmus had to pay 50 zlotys more every month just because we were foreigners. I don´t think that is quite fair.

It was an authentic adventure: after studying all the advertisements abount banks accounts, I decided to open an account at Bank Pekao S.A.; It was O. K., but I had some language problems at the begginning; later on, my bank at Spain had a problem and I only could get my money throutgh a transfer two weeks after I ordered it (I had to be two weeks eating just spaghetti and bread...nive thing).

It was a great chance to learn Polish language (To bardzo trudny jezyk), and, having into account that in the future the relations between Poland and the European Community will increase, I decided to take profit from it. I followed a course of Polish at the University, and my teachers at the course as well as polish friends helped me to learn this difficult language and to be able to speak it fluently at the end of my time there.

Poles know that their future depends on the acces to the European Union, so fron the fall of the communist government they´ve been opening their mind and culture; most of them speaks English or other language (I was surprised about the lot of poles I met who spoke Spanish). Just one thing more: if you travel to Krakow, do not sleep at the local young hostel, is terrible (I still fell pain in my back);and try to visit Aushwitz, the concentration camp; you shouldn´t miss it.