Cultural little me, look at me go

This weekend has been fabulously great so far. Yesterday, my flatmate, our friend Hannes and I went to the archaeological museum in town, which was really brilliant. It has beautiful gardens and is in what used to be at various times a palace, a prison, and an administration building. It's a beautiful place. And the inside is really cool. There is a huge Egyptian exhibit, which is awesome. Complete with real mummies! There is also a very large exhibition on the settlement of the Malopolskie region (which is where I live), including this gorgeous pagan statue from pre-Christian Poland. One of the few remnants that has survived, seeing as how most things were destroyed on sight by the incoming missionaries. As a historian, that fact offends me. Anyway. The point is, it is really awesome to hear about something in class and then be able to go look at it and be close enough to touch it (can't touch it always though, sometimes alarms would go off...hee hee).
We also went to Jama Michalika, which is a rather famous little cafe in town that was frequented by some great Polish authors such as Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz, etc. However, the service was absolutely terrible and it's ridiculously overpriced. Kind of a funny experience.
After that we went to a tiny little gallery on Florianska and looked at some Polish art by Igor Przybylski...check it out here. There are a great deal of amazing Polish modern artists...Marcin Maciejowski, Dorota Nieznalska, Natalia LL, Alicja Zebrowska, Wladyslaw Malecki, etc. They're brilliant. Finished the night at a drum and bass concert at a club, which was absolutely fantastic. If you like drum and bass...if you don't, you'd have hated it. :) Seriously though...what a fun weekend start. And tomorrow, Martina, Jan, and I are going to Ojcow National Park, which is a really great national park with castles and caves and pretty meadows and lots of places to walk to. It's pretty exciting. I'm so thrilled. I will try to post some pictures for you when we get back.
And the week after next, we're going up the Mazurian Lake district in northeastern Poland, because we have several days off school for All Saint's Day. Yep, here in Poland, you actually get Halloween off from school because of the day that comes after it. I'm quite excited. I'm either going to do that or go to Poznan to visit Pawel, but I'm not quite sure yet.
Oh! Also, next week, we're going to a Myslovitz concert, which should be exciting. Polish rock-y music. Pretty good. AND in a few weeks, the Moscow City Ballet is performing Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet here in Krakow, and I think I will die from happiness on the spot, just to warn you.
So many things planned: JULIA is coming in a couple weeks (one of my best friends), and we're going to go to Romania for a few days, which is SO exciting. I'm also hoping to go to Italy sometime within the next month or so to see Marco (a really close friend from last semester) and my friend Taylor from waaaaay back.
In short, life is good. My French class started on Wednesday, and my Polish class has officially started as well. It's all very exciting. I love all my classes. I'm taking all sorts of interesting things, and I adore my Polish Literature class, because I can actually read the stuff in Polish most of the time. I have to reference my dictionary often, but it's so much better reading things in their original languages. So happy about that. Just generally doing well. My pneumonia is gone, although I do have a bit of a persisting cough. Lots of things planned for the upcoming weeks, and I'm pretty happy about all of it.