Prague

Tym postem łamię zasady naszego związku: miałam czekać aż Andrew napisze nowego posta, ale że brakuje mi pisania i ostatnio przeglądałam zdjęcia z Pragi, zdecydowałam się na nowy post. Wybacz Andrew, ale nie mogę dłużej na Ciebie czekać (ale nadal Cię kocham :)).

I'm kind of breaking the rules of our relationship right now. I was supposed to wait for him to write another post but I'm weak... I was going through the photos from our trip to Prague in January and decided to make a post about it. Also, I just miss writing and conserving memories. So, I'm sorry Andrew but I was sick of waiting for your writing mood/inspiration (I still love you though).
 
Andrew przyjechał w odwiedziny na 3 tygodnie w styczniu, wyjeżdżając dzień przed Walentynkami. Podczas jego pobytu musiałam pozdawać kilka egzaminów, pozałatwiać szkolne sprawy i cały czas dawać korepetycje, więc czasem było trudno nam spędzać każdą minutę razem. Już w listopadzie zaplanowaliśmy wycieczkę do Czech; ja nigdy tam nie byłam, a Praga była na Andrew liście rzeczy do zobaczenia przed śmiercią, a że to wcale nie tak daleko, musieliśmy pojechać.
Praga jest piękna! Chociaż pojechaliśmy w zimę i nie byliśmy zobaczyć całego piękna tego miasta, obydwoje się w nim zakochaliśmy dość szybko. Codziennie obiecywaliśmy sobie, że następnego dnia zrobimy więcej zdjęć, ale i tak myślę, że nie zrobiliśmy wiele...

So basically, Andrew came to visit me in Poland for 3 weeks in January, leaving me all alone one day before Valentine's day. While he was here, I still had some exams to pass, school errands to run and students to take care of so we didn't spend much time together. Around November we planned a trip to Czech Republic; I'd never been there and Prague was on Andrew's bucket list, and since it's not that far away from Poland, we had to go.
Prague is beautiful. Although, we went there in the winter and we didn't see all of its beauty, we both fell in love with it quickly. Everyday we promised each other, we will take more photos and still I feel like we could have taken more; we definitely need to take more photos (that are not selfies) together, but well... I'm usually too shy to ask strangers for it.
This is what we got:

Zegar astronomiczny / The astronomical clock- a must see in Prague.

Most Korola / Another must see- Karluv Most (Charles Bridge). Czech is similar to Polish, for example the bridge in Polish is called Most Karola.

Brama, którą wypatrzył Andrew w centrum miasta. / A cool gate spotted by Andrew in the city center.

Contrary to some opinions, we are NOT retarded.

Spędziliśmy 30 minut na pisaniu pocztówek, które potem nie doszły! grrr.../ 30 minutes spent on postcard-writing because "I don't know what I should write!"... We came up with a perfect note and.... the postcards never arrived!

Słodkości! / Cuteness overload!

USA all the way

Andrew jest zawsze zajęty swoją grą video i nie ma czasu na bloga. Na szczęscie, czasem poświeca mi minutę swojego cennego czasu i spędzamy ją razem. Jestem w Kalifornii od 2 tygodni i udało mi się już jeść nowe rzeczy (burrito, ciasteczka z wróżbą, domowe hamburgery, frytki ze słodkiego ziemniaka, makaron z serem), poznać rodzinę Andrew (za każdym razem się denerwuję że powiem coś głupiego), świętować 4. lipca i spędzić masę czasu z moich uzależnionym od gier video chłopakiem. I ten ostatni punkt jest moim ulubionym, bo tęskniłam ogromnie.

Andrew has been super busy with his video games and he never has time for the blog. Fortunately, he sometimes gives me a minute of his precious time and we do stuff together. I've been here for over 2 weeks and I managed to eat at new places (thank you, America, for my first burrito, fortune cookie, root beer float, homemade hamburgers, sweet potato fries, mac and cheese), meet Andrew's family (I'm still nervous every day that I will say/do something stupid), celebrate my first 4th of July and spend a lot of time with my video-game addicted boyfriend. The last thing is my favorite, though; I don't really know how I survived the last 5 months without him, his stupid jokes and creepy smiles.

Oglądanie fajerwerków 4. lipca. / Watching fireworks on the 4th of July

<3

 Domowy makaron z serem, 'tradycyjna' potrawa hamerykańska. / Homemade macaroni and cheese :)

We have a plan

There is a plan! If everything goes according to it, we'll see each other in 10 days (!!).
I (W) am freaking out because of a) the flight which I will take by myself and have to change (and will probably get lost), b) meeting Andrew's family and overcoming my social awkwardness and weirdness (that's the biggest scare- to make them like me) and c) being away from my everyday life for 5 months for the first time.
Either way, I'm super excited and looking forward to finally being together  ALL THE TIME. btw, Andrew, are you read for it? For seeing my sleepy face every morning, spending every afternoon eating/ hanging out together, falling asleep together and being together without any break! Everything together. You will probably get tired after a week. So good luck to you because I will never get tired of your face and other stuff! ;)

MAY was(not) fun

The life's good and it's about to be better. I've finished my thesis and feel relieved; it makes me even happier when Andrew's saying he's proud of me. I like making him proud. The second reason- holidays. They are getting closer every day and for me holidays=seeing Andrew after 5 months. Man, it's been so long, too long.
The last month was fun! Writing, being angry and moody every day (because of writing), going to Prague, going to Warsaw, getting my visa... American consuls are serious and no fun at all; my visa interview has been my worst experience with an American person so far. Hopefully the only one. Anyways, I got the visa, so my awesomest boyfriend and I will be reunited within a month :) I'm looking forward to July!

Watching "Why stop now" on my way to Prague (the fun part of May).

Prague was also a fun part of May; I was constantly thinking of school, though.

It presents proudly, right? After this year and the 11,164 words I wrote about "Juno", I will probably never watch it again.

One of our last pictures together taken at the Warsaw airport. Ehhh... I just have to survive one more month!

The world baking day

If I had to choose, I'm definitely more of a baker than a cook. That's why when I found a motivation to bake, I grabbed it and decided to bake on the Baking Day which took place today. Out from all 100 recipes from worldbakingday I chose the 22nd one which was not that easy. I'm a totally amateur baker so of course, there were some problems. Adding 2 glasses of water instead of 2 spoons isn't a good idea. Fortunately, I ruined only the frosting.

I'm also not a clean baker. It's funny how cooks take pictures of their totally clean working areas. In my case it would be impossible.I believe in the artistic value of a mess.

Oh, that's how the cake is supposed to look: chocolate fudge cake.
Happy Baking!

I have the awesomest boyfriend!

I’ve been a real pain in the Andrew’s ass lately. During this semester I’m supposed to be writing my bachelor thesis and even though it’s just 30 pages of text about an interesting topic of audio-visual translation and Juno and slang and most importantly- English, I’m super-hyper-lazy and keep bitching to my incredibly patient boyfriend about my horrifying lack of motivation. He handles it and copes with my mood swings pretty well . What’s more, he supports and motivates me to write at least a little every day. He even came up with an idea of making my one dream come true for writing one page. I’d forgotten about it until today and I think I will remind him about my 7 wishes to be fulfilled.

So, our lives update would consist of writing thesis, learning all about Old English, working almost every day, preparing for a trip to Poland (Andrew) and to the States (me), talking every day  and worshiping Skype. Fortunately, I’ve recently got a new Internet which is way faster than the previous one and Andrew and I are able to video chat almost whenever we want to, which is my favorite part of any day. And I’m sure so is his.

And Skype also allows us to watch our favorite shows/videos together with video, seeing each other's reactions.

God bless Skype!

Long Distance Relationships

When I first started writing this post, I had a whole paragraph or so written about how difficult long distance relationships are, but I wasn't happy with it because it wasn't really getting to the point of what I wanted to say. If you had asked me 5 years ago if I thought long distance relationships could work, I probably would have told you, 'no', they are too difficult. While one part of that is true, they are very difficult, the other is not. They are definitely possible and there is one big difference between me now and me 5 years ago, that helped me come to this realization. That difference is Weronika. 5 years ago I didn't have a person who was worth waiting for, worth fighting for and now I know for sure they can work because I would wait forever for her.