3/11/2006

Bytom, Silesia and Grzegorz from New Jersey



A 3h train ride to Bytom, Silesia in the dining car where we meet Grzegorz who just comes back from New Jersey. He has lived there for 5 years now and tells us that his mother will prepare him a good silesian dish - we are having kjelbasa sausage with cheese.
Bytom is sad. We have pierogies and spinachstuffed crepes in a bar where the same song is playing for two hours on repeat. Not enough alkohol at the Kronika gallery opening, Nick gets some beer at the 24h shop. We don't know where we're going to sleep yet. When the party's over our polish friends suddenly unveil 3-4 vodka bottles. Adrian fills the glasses as if it was water. We are drunk now. The crowd moves on to a bar where Julien accidentally orders 24 (!) pierogies. Everybody is happy about that mistake. Quite wasted we are guided to a flat above the bar where we lie down in beds. Nick has to pee but the toilet is occupied by other vodka victims. He uses the open window and a bottle for his needs.