#1 Plane Spotter

Czesc! Dziendobry!

Greetings from Poland! I'm visiting my friend Magda and her family in Warsaw this week. I've been here for two days, and so far, me and Maj are doing what we do best...sitting around and being lazy. :D It's fantastic.

I arrived on Sunday, and Magda was still in Venice so her sister and brother picked me up at the airport. I met her sister Agnes in London a month ago (and LOVE HER!). Magda's brother Maciek's friend Adam was also visiting from the States. So Maciek is a very interesting young man. He's in college studying to be a pilot and he loves planes and music and taking pictures. So Adam and Maciek taught me about this thing called plane-spotting. They go to the airport and watch planes land and take-off and take pictures and listen to the radio feed and discuss planes. "It's like fishing," says Maciek.

So Adam and Maciek were going to the airport to plane-spot and I went with them because I wanted to see these nerds in their natural habitat.


Here's the plane spotters, Maciek and his Polish plane spotter friends (also all named Maciek), Adam, and Agnes. We're in back of the airport runway area behind a barbwire prison-like fence in this crazy wooded area. I felt like a terrorist sitting back there watching planes.


Maciek, super plane spotter. Maciek goes to pilot school in Florida.


And he got me hooked!


LOT Airlines plane. LOT is the Polish airlines. Magda's father used to be a pilot for them. Magda's mom was a stewardess back in the day for PanAm. Cool, huh?


British Airways...what I fly!


I think this was my best plane spotter picture.


Me and Agnieszka.


Maciek and Adam. They don't have girlfriends because they plane spot for a hobby, but once they're pilots, I'm sure they'll be platinum members of the Mile High Club.


Me and Agnes got sick of the plane spotting real quick since it was so hot, so we went to city center. Here is the Palace of Culture, built by the Soviets when they occupied Warsaw after WW2. Warsaw's a pretty ugly city because 84% of the city was destroyed during WW2. It's actually really sad because from the pictures at the museum, it looks like it used to be a beautiful place. But now there's all these overly modern buildings mixed in with remnants of Soviet buildings.


Here's me in my room in the pantry. Just kidding. Agnes would say "Oh, Jenpa is cute puppy. She can live in our pantry." So we set up this little thing as a joke for Magda when she got home from Venice that evening. YAY! Magda's here!

So I've been here for a couple days. It'll be awhile before I get pictures up again since my cameras acting up and so I have to get the pictures from today from Magda and Maciek later. But so far, Warsaw is REALLY hot and Polish people don't believe in AC for some reason. There is no AC anywhere! So I'm practising for when I get to Korea, where Isis, the crazy Afghani woman, also doesn't have AC. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! But Magda's family has a beautiful house in the outskirts of Warsaw and we sit outside in the garden and drink beers and wine all night so it's not as hot.

More pictures and stories later! I swear I saw more of Warsaw than the airport.