I'm off to Węgorzewo this afternoon - for all who don't know where that is, here's a map:

I'm going there as an intensive boot-camp training for the
Folk Song and Dance Ensemble of the Warsaw University of Technology. I've been going to their classes every Thursday - they are four hours long! The training is in Węgorzewo is going to be 10 hours a day - six dance hours and four hours of singing practice. It's a small town - but they do have a place to sleep, eat, dance, and a liquor store, so all is well. I've been waiting for this for a while, now.. exams are killing me. But it's now all over. No more exams for a long while. I've gotten my marks for all but one of my classes: the theoretical exams from heat transfer (but I do know that I have a 4 on the practical exam). From lowest to highest: fluid mechanics - I have an "n" meaning I passed the practical test, but have yet to pass the theory - there is an organized theoretical test for all the students that didn't pass sometime in the next semester, and another in early September; control systems 3, introduction to machine design 3.5, manufacturing technology 3.5, Thermo lab 4, Thermo 4, partial differential equations 4.5, thermal machines 5, french 5 (it was a continuation of the stuff I know.. but far to easy - I need to take some french course at UW for it to mean anything). If you average out all the classes that I have marks for and passed, it's a 4.1.
I have never had to learn as much theory as I do here. I think in the end it's going to be beneficial for me to know all this theory - you get a sound idea to know if your answers are correct, and you know where to begin if starting from scratch. Apart from the theory, Polish students have another advantage. Since only the top say, 20% pass each time around, by the time you actually do pass the subject, you have studied it so many times that you have actually learned something. It's a different approach, and the exams are a lot different - to make it easier on the teachers, but the students do learn the material in the end.
I was also job hunting during exams, as usual. I found a job at a language school - which is actually on the route that I normally take to school -
very convenient.

On the map : 1-Mikrus (my rez), 2-Instytut Techniki Cieplnej (ITC - Institute of heat technology, the place where I have 90% of my classes), 3-Greenwich School of English, Ogród botaniczny (this is part of łazienki park), 5-Gmach Główny (the admin building of my school). And I forgot one thing - north across that white street from "1" is "Riviera" where I have my dance lessons, and there's a club in the basement that I sometimes attend. As I said in an earlier blog, it takes me 12 minutes to get to class, so nothing is very far. Except cheap groceries, where I take the metro - my stop is called "Politechnika" so you can imagine it's close aswell.
When I get back from Węgorzewo, I'm off to see my grandparents.
OOOOO I almost forgot - this weekend I went to see an amazing play, called "Akademia Pana Keksa" - which used to be a kid's show on TV. This was playing at a very famous studio in Warsaw, "Roma." It was meant for kids obviously, but some of the effects were on par with Cirque du Soleil from Montreal. Here's a picture of my room from the front and back


2 comments:
you're done!!!!! congrats!!! and more than passed...good luck for your new semester.
Co do gory moj Murzyn?
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