Pssssh. Who needs to go to sleep at a reasonable hour?

          Goodness gracious, the last two days have been absolutely magnificent! No, really. Very little could top them. So let's start with Friday! Unlike most Fridays, I had a class! It was to make up a class for Secularization, since our professor won't be here the last week of classes. (: It was quite the interesting class. Smaller, since he gave us to days to pick from. Friday or Tuesday, and I chose Friday so I wouldn't have a miserable 8-hour Tuesday, before taking an hour break for my 1-hour class. Yeah, I think I definitely did the right thing in that. After that, I ended up buying a present again! One I've had my eye on for a while, so I am super grateful to have it out of the way. I can't wait until the receiver gets it! <3

          But then... instead of trying to get some other things off my to-do list. I had to rush to meet with the Mormons... Which... I ended up not doing, since it seemed like they weren't there when I had arrived already 10 minutes late. Soooo, yeah. After that, we sort of chilled at home, until Nate and I went to eat some pierogi and naleśniki, since we really needed to have some sort of dinner, and being lazy is fun lately, ahah. Oh, what a family weekend will do to your desire to cook... Ah well! Now, this is where the fun part comes in. We all got together, Nate (flatmate), Kasia (neighbor), Gosia (roommate), and I so that we could head out for.... the HOCKEY GAME!!! YEAAAH!

          We leave and head for the tram stop, where some nice guy starts talking to us as we're debating how to get there. Turns out this guy was a football player. Oh, no no no. Not like, football/soccer player. I mean. American Football. Wait. It gets better! He was on one of the two Kraków football teams. And won Defensive Rookie of the year! Unfortunately, he was injured, so now he can only coach instead. But still! My mind. Was. Blown. Poland has 3-freakin'-2 American football teams. When the hell did this happen!? American FOOTBALL? In POLAND? Baffled! Absolutely baffled! Seriously, I think I asked him a few times in absolute shock about this concept. And it only gets better. They have NFL players over here. What?! I mean, I'm not a sports fan, but... that's still mind-blowing. What kind of NFL player says, "Hey, I'm going to continue playing football! In Poland." I. Don't. Get it. That plus some Harvard football player was on his team. And some other wrestling champion who nearly got into the Beijing Olympics. What.

           Ok, ok. I'll stop that. It was just... very shocking when I learned all of this. But onto the rest of the night! We get to the stadium for hockey to find out that the game was an away game... ... Therefore, Poland's system of labeling who is away and home is different from the American one, and I was right by reading it intuitively. Poor Kasia was baffled by this, as well as quite depressed. She's a huge hockey fan. (In fact, she refs it, so... I mean... it's quite literally her life.) So what else do you do for depression besides go to the best chocolate restaurant in Poland, right?! Yeah, we went to E. Wedel. I got a Malinowe Marzenie. Aka, Raspberry Dream. And yes. It was indeed a raspberry dream. To. Die. For. Oh gosh. Fruit are amazing. <3 Best food ever!

           So from there, we headed on out to Empik for my sake. I needed to buy a few more birthday cards. I love the sheep series of cards in Poland! It's super adorable! :D But that trip was (finally) a success! From there, we headed to Klub pod Jaszczurami, the live band karaoke bar! But we decided it was still too early and instead wanted to go get some margaritas. Therefore, we headed to The Mexican! It's a popular Mexican chain in Poland, where the girls are dressed in Mexican style (supposedly), and just a very cheesy, but fun sort of restaurant. Since I don't drink, nor was I hungry, I just got some water, but it was really nice nonetheless. The entire evening was just a fun sort of hang-out evening, where we really got to chillax a bit and have fun. So useful in life! Ah, but that's not the end at all! We went back to the club and listened in for the karaoke singers! It was a lot of fun. The songs were part Polish and part English. And a lot of the Polish songs were awesome, so we took the karaoke list so that we can find them later on Youtube and enjoy their Polishness. Seriously, Polish songs are so fun! It was really funny when Gdy nie ma dzieci came on. Everyone started singing along. It's quite the popular song, cause I even recognized it! But Kasia was like, oh this is great! I love this song! Is it appropriate? Me: ... Ummmm.... noooooooo. xD Far from appropriate. Amusing as hell, and very well put-together in a musical sense, but the lyrics... Oh, not appropriate at all. But! Fun song to sing with! Very fun song! Actually, here, go listen to it! And it's a fun music video! xD

            I think at that point we just headed on home. After all, we have a ton of plans for the weekend! So it was probably a good idea to get home earlier on one night than we likely would the next few nights. Plus, I actually had to wake up early the next day. Of course, that did not stop me from staying up until 2.30, Skyping with Bobby and other fellow Muffins. But why did I have to wake up early the next day? Well, I wanted to get to the post office before meeting up with the Mormons, since we did reschedule.

           I headed toward the post office, and... oi, it was a mess. One of the stops on the tram lines were down, and that's exactly the way I needed to head toward the post office. Plus, 3 only goes every 20 minutes on a weekend, because, well... it's a weekend. So once I got off and realized I had no hope of getting that way, I hopped onto a bus to go the one stop I could, and then... I actually enjoyed a very wonderful and relaxing walk through the park. Really, I just slowed down for a few seconds and recognized the absolute beauty of fall. The colorful leaves, all on the ground, in the trees, phenomenal gorgeous. Cool breeze. It was a very relaxing and enjoyable walk, just to myself. Got to the post office (I think we're becoming best friends...) to send out some cards, figured out a way to tram home, hopped on the next tram that I could, and then, when I got to the stop where I knew I'd have to wait for 3... ... I saw three was literally the tram in front of me. ... ... So what do you do when you know you'll have to wait a full 20 minutes for the next tram and you have a meeting in 10 minutes? ... You try to run and speedwalk across the square to beat it to its next stop... ...I missed it by two minutes. I was in hearing distance when it rolled away. ... So I just had to walk the rest of the way home to meet up with the Mormons. Oh, I was in a foul mood.

            Although, the meeting was rather nice. Minus the fact that they keep on trying to point out clues that God is already in my life. *sighs* I am happy with my beliefs, thank you very much. They make more sense to me. But! I went home, and after a while, we did some groceries so that I could cook dinner for us (Nate, Kasia, Gosia, and I. Michelle's family is here for the weekend, so she's spending her time with them, and Monika is still at her family's place. Just to avoid any confusion, haha.) I made pizza chicken! Like... chicken that supposedly was meant to taste like chicken. And I've gotta say. It turned out pretty well. ;D So I'm quite proud of myself for that! We had fries (courtesy of Nate) as a side, since it was quite fitting with the theme.

           The plan for the night was to go out to a club. And we did! But after dinner, definitely had a few hours to kill. So to Skype it was! And fortunately, Bobby was free to Skype, haha. I also Skyped my parents for a short bit before we had to leave. Where did we go? A club called Łubu Dubu! Tehehe. My parents even seemed to recognize the name. xD It's fun to say! And there is no way I can type that out phonetically so that it would make sense in English... Just ask me if you're curious some time! But! Before we got there, we had to wait for a tram, of course... ... While we were waiting, a party tram rolled up. Oh, that's right. There was disco lights in there, flashing red and blue patterns of flowers or music notes or hearts or stuff like that, music pumping to the max, people squeezed together, bouncing the tram up and down. In fact, some of them kept waving us on! But we didn't know if we could or not, or if we needed some special ticket! But, it's been decided. Hands down, now, we will go on a party tram.

           But we didn't this time. Instead, we got on a normal tram to head onto the club. And ya know what? I approve. It was an awesome club! We got there, went upstairs, and they were playing 70's, 80's, and 90's music (we knew they would, but still). Yeah... It was such a fun environment! They had some old historical Worker's Party stuff on the walls. Very fun place to be at! We danced there from about oh 11-ish to about 0.40. So many good songs! Ghostbusters, The Twist, Grease, Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA, and lots of other good old classics. Now, that's the kind of scene I like! Older style, actual dancing as opposed to this grinding nonsense. So. Much. Fun!

           After a while, though, my legs started to feel sore (unfortunately, it held over to today...), and we all left. Ya know what? I really really appreciate them for going with me and being so understanding. Like, we stopped at a place on the way home to grab some food, and they really tried their hardest to rush to make sure we would make it onto the bus on time and everything. They were just really respectful about the fact that I really couldn't walk too much or anything like that. Super awesome feeling. (: We came home from an awesome night, I Skyped my parents briefly, and I stayed up chatting with people online for a while. Yeah. It was an awesome night. I stayed up way too late again, (haha... 4.00.... oh fun times!) but it was worth it. Now, I really should get my stuff together so that we can go to the Rynek for some sort of big obiad. We're planning on going to the biggest rivalry soccer game in Kraków tonight, followed by a Hockey match, followed by Alchemia, provided that it feels safe to go there. I mean, we're gonna check, but it's highly likely that hooligans will be out to the max tonight after the rivalry soccer game, and the sore losers will not be happy and drinking away, and hooligans will be planning fights and what not. Therefore. Only if it's safe will we go to Alchemia. But for now, that is all! Good, grand, weekend!