Mountain Climb

Dzień dobry! Day two in Poland, though it feels like a week or so. My Polish language skills are increasing quickly, tak? Mostly because our guide, Kashka, (Kate in Polish!) has been teaching me a lot of phrases. She might visit us in Point some time.

First today we took some water flow measurements at the river. The view was spectacular.


Then after lunch we had a rather difficult mountain climb, and one girl nearly had a panic attack because she was pushing herself too hard. So now we're climbing buddies and take lots of breaks. 


Then we caught a lot of bugs and collected plants at the top. Lots of pictures up on Flickr soon. 

There are a lot of animals here, both wild and domestic. We have seen voles, cows, cats (kot), dogs (pies. Yes, Pies, but said pee-ehs, not like the food.), and of course sheep. There was also this lizard.

The river meandered down the mountain, with marvelous miniature waterfalls. We got to drink out of the stream at the top, it is basically the only clean water in Poland.

The view from the top was stunning! It took a lot of work to get there, though.

We did have one issue getting back though. A herd of sheep was blocking the bus! They barely trotted, they didn't seem bothered at all. Some of the locals sprayed water on them with a hose to try to get them to move, but they didn't seem to feel like going anywhere quickly.

I am amazed by how cheap everything is here. It is about $1=3 Polish Zloty. Except a bar of candy is still only about 1,6 Zloty, which makes it 50 cents for chocolate. Yep, I'm in heaven. I got everything below for only $4.

Well, it's nearly midnight and I should be asleep. Dowidzenia!