Many new developments in the Gartland Household.
First of all my mom and dad enrolled the kids in a british school every monday all day. We'll take classes like p.e and art and stuff we wouldnt be able to do at home. Everybody there speaks english so ill have someone my age to talk to which is the point of this decision
Also it is official we are going to Berlin, Germany from November 10th to the 15th. We ride in a train all day on the 10th and we leave Berlin in the Afternoon on the 15th. Berlin is the capital of Germany and so many tings happened there especially from WWI And WWII including the Berlin Wall which was torn down in 1989 but there are still some remnants of it. We'll be there for the 20th anniversary of the wall coming down on the 10th.
On Sunday we will be going to the Lechia Gdansk futbol (soccer) game. Lechia is our home team and is actually pretty good. They're playing one of their rivals Lech Poznan. I'm hoping to get a jersey while im there.
School here is Going good. It's so nice to be able to go to school in my pajamas everyday.
I hope everyone is doing good and Go Saints tommorrow against Gardner-Edgerton.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
October16th
Wow I haven't updated my blog in a while, so this is going to be a long one.
On our second day in Krakow we went to Auswitch and Berkeneu the Nazi concentration camps. It was a really moving experience when you think about how many people were killed there. (1.1 million) We got to go into some of the gas chambers in which people thought they were getting a shower but instead were gassed to death. People thought they were just starting over and that the Germans were relocating them somewhere so that they could lead a new life, but they were just leading them to their deaths just because they were Jewish. It's terribly sad.
On our third day i got my first real taste of the Polish winter that is soon approaching. It was sleeting hard and it was windy and cold. We took refuge inside indoor museums and ancient churches that were really spectacular. One of the churches we went to has one of the most famous alter pieces in all of Europe. The people at the church recognized this as a tourist attraction and you had to pay for a five dollar ticket to take pictures, along with the other ticket you had to buy to get into the church in the first place. O well, it was nice to be warm at least.
On our final day we went to a church called Corpus Christi for mass and it was a really neat church. I learned here that you kneel outside your pew when its time for communion and the priest will come down the row and put the Eucharist right into your mouth. Then at 12:00pm we got on an 8 hour train to go back to Gdansk. We had a quarrel with the ticket person on the train because they were saying that the kids did not get the student discount because we were not Polish students, even though the website doesn't say we had to be polish, but we got it all worked out and got back to Gdansk.
Monday was my 15th birthday and it was a bit different than American birthdays. For example I'm not sure they celebrate birthdays here so finding a cake was pretty difficult. we finally found a good chocolate one with cherries in the middle. We went to McDonalds for dinner because that's where i wanted to go. i got what i wanted for presents, new headphones because my old ones broke and i couldn't listen to my iPod. i also got my own digital camera so that i can take my own pictures and upload them onto my blog and Facebook.
Nothing really exciting happened the rest of the week, just schoolwork. I hope my Saints beat Ottawa tonight and remain undefeated. I'm gonna set my alarm for 1 am Sunday morning my time so that i can listen to the Jayhawks football game. with luck the KU-OU game next week will be on ESPN America so that i can watch it.
hope you guys are having fun and keep warm and healthy.
On our second day in Krakow we went to Auswitch and Berkeneu the Nazi concentration camps. It was a really moving experience when you think about how many people were killed there. (1.1 million) We got to go into some of the gas chambers in which people thought they were getting a shower but instead were gassed to death. People thought they were just starting over and that the Germans were relocating them somewhere so that they could lead a new life, but they were just leading them to their deaths just because they were Jewish. It's terribly sad.
On our third day i got my first real taste of the Polish winter that is soon approaching. It was sleeting hard and it was windy and cold. We took refuge inside indoor museums and ancient churches that were really spectacular. One of the churches we went to has one of the most famous alter pieces in all of Europe. The people at the church recognized this as a tourist attraction and you had to pay for a five dollar ticket to take pictures, along with the other ticket you had to buy to get into the church in the first place. O well, it was nice to be warm at least.
On our final day we went to a church called Corpus Christi for mass and it was a really neat church. I learned here that you kneel outside your pew when its time for communion and the priest will come down the row and put the Eucharist right into your mouth. Then at 12:00pm we got on an 8 hour train to go back to Gdansk. We had a quarrel with the ticket person on the train because they were saying that the kids did not get the student discount because we were not Polish students, even though the website doesn't say we had to be polish, but we got it all worked out and got back to Gdansk.
Monday was my 15th birthday and it was a bit different than American birthdays. For example I'm not sure they celebrate birthdays here so finding a cake was pretty difficult. we finally found a good chocolate one with cherries in the middle. We went to McDonalds for dinner because that's where i wanted to go. i got what i wanted for presents, new headphones because my old ones broke and i couldn't listen to my iPod. i also got my own digital camera so that i can take my own pictures and upload them onto my blog and Facebook.
Nothing really exciting happened the rest of the week, just schoolwork. I hope my Saints beat Ottawa tonight and remain undefeated. I'm gonna set my alarm for 1 am Sunday morning my time so that i can listen to the Jayhawks football game. with luck the KU-OU game next week will be on ESPN America so that i can watch it.
hope you guys are having fun and keep warm and healthy.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
October 8th
Well last night i went on an overnight train which was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
much better than the overnight plane over to poland. we had beds to strecth our legs out and i got a lot of good sleep.
We are now in Krackow which is one of the biggest cities in Poland. I'll probably be updating my blog everyday while im here because we are doing so much stuff.
Tomorrow we will be going to Auswitch the concentration camp and that will be very emotional since more than 1 million people were murdered there.
much better than the overnight plane over to poland. we had beds to strecth our legs out and i got a lot of good sleep.
We are now in Krackow which is one of the biggest cities in Poland. I'll probably be updating my blog everyday while im here because we are doing so much stuff.
Today we went to the wawel (pronounced Vavil) which is a castle, a cathedral that is the seat of the Archidiocese of Krakow and it's also where Pope John Paul II was a cardinal. There was also the remains of Saint Stanislaus and St Queen Jadwiga which was very interesting. Most of the old Kings of Poland were buried underneath the Cathedral and we got to take a look at that. There was also a museum about John Paul II.
Tomorrow we will be going to Auswitch the concentration camp and that will be very emotional since more than 1 million people were murdered there.
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