After a week, we've definitely done a lot of shit. Instead of going out one night, we decided to hit the movies. We saw "State of Play" with Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe, which was ok. It was in English with polish subtitles. Weirdly enough, they don't put butter on the popcorn here. I got KFC before the movie (the theater was in a mall), and the people eating there acted like it was a delicacy. They didn't have popcorn chicken--wack. This weekend was pretty low key, we went to a pretty sick restaraunt last night that I would recommend to anyone who goes to Krakow. It's called CK Browbar, it's underground (like everything else here) and they serve a great beer in those cylindrical taps that hold something like 5 liters. When the woman asked us what we wanted she said "ok two beers and what else" before I said shit--my type of lady. Anyway, I got roast duck with apples in a honey ginger sauce with fried potatoes and red cabbage salad....for 9 dollars. I'm still blown away by how cheap shit is here. We chillin' in the hostel now before we go back to that 90 cent beer place.
I thought I would give you guys a little insight on the people who work with us and the kids who we supervise at AlfKlub. Starting with the kids: Weirdly enough, it seems that none of the kids who are at AlfKlub feel any pain whatsoever. They beat the shit out of eachother all day. I'm not talking about like light punching and wrestling. They slap eachother in the face and punch eachother in the back of the head, slamming one another into walls. The weirdest part is, they all laugh hysterically when they get hit and hit eachother. Today, these kids were playing this game where one of them held his mouth open and the other one rocketed a foam ball at the kids teeth. Everytime the kid got nailed he would like grab his teeth, look like he's about to cry, then burst out laughing. What the fuck? None of the other counselors discourage this behavior, so MoneSplye just chills and takes it all in. I'm convinced that some wires got crossed when these kids were born, and instead of crying they laugh. The only time I saw someone cry was during one of our Rugby games. One of the fat kids was chasing down one of the smaller kids and jumped on his back, in the confusion, this girl somehow got sandwiched between them. They hit the ground (which is hard dirt) and the girl just didnt move. She laid still for easily a minute, sat up, shed two tears and then sat in the shade. Weird. The kids also all have cellphones! I'm not talking about the type of phones that this guy used in my favorite show, I'm talking about legit, camera having, music playing, flip motherfucking cellphones. I thought these kids were poor gypsies--whatever.
On to the counselors. As you guys know, we slept at the house of two of the girls we work with a few nights ago. These are the only people who speak English besides us on the entire staff. These girls are friendly, but they seem pretty disappointed with life and have a negative view of Americans. They aren't fun to hang out with and are vegetarians, seemingly not understanding the concept of sarcasm. We joked that we were going to leave this kid behind on the bus, one of the girls looked at us and said "that is not nice! you are mean!" and went to go warn the kid. There's two other dudes, both named Miho. They are both Polish and not that funny or interesting, so blogging about them is fruitless. The funniest guy we work with is this dude from Georgia (not the state, as he said), who's name is Araqli or some shit. MoneSplye calls him Arachnid, which is the closest we could get. He speaks maybe 8-11 words of English and never talks to us, but is hilarious to observe. He sits at his computer all day with headphones that look like an air traffic controller, video chatting these mysterious people all day. When he's not videochatting old women or watching videos of people doing funny dances, he's reading shit online in Georgian. While the rest of the counselors are supposed to help the kids with their various bullshit, he just sits there all day staring at the comp, 8 hours straight. He went to school for "political" and lacks a number of basic skills: 1. He does not know how to boil water...seriously 2. He doesn't know how to do dishes 3. He doesn't know how to use a wrench, screwdriver, bolts or nuts (we know this because MoneSplye spent four hours making Ikea furniture with him). He is also a huge mysoginist. I guess in Georgia it is "woman responsibility" to do the dishes, mop the floors, etc. All the counselors have to pitch in to do that shit to keep the place clean, but he always refuses. Also, one of the girls told us that they went out with him once. Some girl danced with him and then tried to walk away after the song was over, but he grabbed her by the neck and wouldn't let her leave. Ballin! There's also this mysterious hot blonde chick who is supposed to be working with us, who the Georgian guy loves, but we have yet to see her. We are 90% sure she is a myth.
Anyway, here are some pictures of us...
top to bottom is MoneSplye at the Wawel Castle, a major tourist spot. Next is Splye in the salt mines, see previous post for an explanation (those are real saltminers). The last one is me looking thuggish, posing with the jelly before we handed it out to the poor folks. Enjoy, see you fools in a few days. GO LAKERS!
I was loving this post til the Go Lakers part. Get a picture of this Georgian dude and his headphones. That is pure comedy
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