Get Off the Tram! and, Beacon in the Night Moments

Hello my darlings!

Sorry it's been a while...like, a long while.

Uwaga Uwaga: This entry is long

So, 1/3 of my first week in Wroclaw was spent being lost. How lost you ask? Each trip that was supposed to take 30 minutes max took me 2 hours to complete. EACH ONE. I often looked up at the sky and would ask, "Really? -_-...fine fine, ok, sorry." 

Here are some stories:

1) On the first day of classes I caught a tram, I can't remember if it was the #9 or #17, but it doesn't really matter since they both go to my school. I was proud of this accomplishment. Yay me, I know what tram takes me to school.
This pride was soon replaced with a "I shouldn't ride the tram every day. I should walk too. You know, be European and fit and stuffs."
So, after my second day of class I decided to walk home. "Just go the same way the tram goes." I told myself. Gosh, I'm good.

LOLZ. 

My tram takes one turn, ONE, at the end of the trip, otherwise it goes "prosto prosto prosto." So I was walking I couldn't remember which way the tram turned. So, I turned somewhere, I don't know where, and walked...and kept walking. As I was walking I had this really weird feeling, like I was too far off the map. No but really, there's this video game or something that I've played before where the player is on a platform and if he goes too far to one side of the platform it tilts and the player falls off. That's genuinely how I felt, like I was falling off this map I had in my head. So I turned to the right to stop the tilting. I felt balanced again... with good juju and whatnot. I kept walking and walking (geez oh man did I go too far left!) and walking and an hour and a half later, I saw it. Through the trees in some park that I ended up in, I saw Kredka (my dorm)! 

2)The next day I tried again. I rode the tram to school and told myself to pay attention and remember where the tram turns. I think I fell asleep because I totally missed it.
Nonetheless I tried walking home again. I thought I turned the right way. I did not. Again. I walked WAY off course again and I was well aware of it (tilting feeling). I was thirsty and starving and tired. So I found a nice lady and asked her where Kredka was...this of course was after 45 minutes of walking (I was stubborn and determined and dumb). "Take #O or #1 tram," she said. I was skeptical. I was only familiar with #9 and #17, so to take another one made me uneasy. But I decided to trust this native (duh it was a good idea. You must remember, the lack of food and drink in me was messing with my thinking). I hopped on the #O and rode staring intensely out the window trying to find something familiar. After 10 minutes I still supposedly had 3 stops before my stop and I was getting ready. And then, like a beacon in the night I saw Kredka! So I hopped off that tram 3 stops early and booked it to my home.


One time I took a tram with friends at 11pm or maybe it was 11:30 pm(before night buses start running)and while we didn't know it at the time, the last tram doesn't go to your destination. It goes to the tram house to hangout with its tram family and eat tram food and sleep and dream tram dreams until the next day.

So we're on this tram that we think is taking us home, right? And then 15 minutes pass and we're the only ones on the tram and the tram has stopped. "Must be a red light," we thought. And then we hear, "Koniec jazdy. Dobranoc." We don't react, at all. Zip, zero, nada reaction. I personally thought it was the radio or something. We stay seated. One second later: "KONIEC JAZDY. DOBRANOC." OH GAWD. We have to get off?? BUT THIS ISN'T HOME.

So we all file off onto the sidewalk as the tram driver smiles and waves bye-bye to us. We just stare at each other and start laughing like "Whaaaat?" and "What do we do now?" We were in the middle of bumble-doo-wop nowhere. Then like an angel from the sky (I've had several of these moments as well) we see two boys on bicycles and go ask for help. One minute later a bus comes by and the boys ask if the bus is going to our home. It was. We got on.

The Night bus:

You know how in Harry Potter the Night Bus key chain says, "It's gonna be a bumpy ride"? That's how the night buses are here. 

My gosh that was a long entry. I hope you liked it (and understood it) but if not, I'll tell you the stories in person :D

Love always,
S

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