Thursday, Jan 13th

On Thursday we headed to Katowice about in 9 am. First we viseted old industrial part of town which was about 100-years old. It was very beautiful – the building were made of brown bricks and the window edges were vivid red. We had some time to walk there and take some pictures and then we went to the administrative center of Katowice in Silesia Voivodship. We first had one small meal and we got some little presents. Then we listened two man who talked about the histort of the building and about Silesia and Katowice in general. After taht we went to silver mining museum where we introduced how they used to mine silver, with what technic. We had a trip in the underground mining caves and we had a chance to sail with a boat. The waterway was very narrow so it was kind of creepy. The boat also swayed a lot. After the those trips we went to have a dinner. We actually had two dinners because our sleighride with horses was canceled due to the lack of snow. So we had some simple meal and then we went to eat some barbeque. The day was very exciting and educating. We had a lot of fun.

Friday, Jan 14th

On Friday we had to be in school at 8 o’clock and Portuguese students made their presentation, because they weren't there when the others presented theirs. So we waited about an hour and a half before they started presenting. After that we went to Cracow. When we arrived to Cracow we went to the castle called Wawel. It was a really beautiful castle. We also visited St.Mary's Basilica.
After St.Mary's Basilica we went to eat in restaurant, we ate traditional Polish soup and pork with potatoes. After the dinner we had about 3 hours of free time, everybody went to the Main Market Square, when we split up with others, everybody went their own way. We went back to Dabrowa Gornicza. Then we had dinner with our families and that was the end of our very interesting and enjoyable day :)

Wednesday, Jan 12th

That day started at 9 o'clock. We went to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Firstly we had a tour at Auschwitz the first. The guide introduced us how people had to live there. We saw many horrible pictures, a lot of things which were collected from people who were sent there. We can now imagine how they had to suffer. But still next to the Birkenau camp it looked much nicer. We could also see the only remained gas oven chamber. Luckily we had a really great guide who made that day very interesting for all of us. After 5 hours tour we had a lunch at the local restaurant and 6 o'clock we were back at Dabrowa Gornizsa and could go home to our host families.