TATRY MOUNTAINS

This is my fave place in Poland. The only one with really high mountains, and it's so beautiful.
I traveled there few times with my friends, we were staying at a convent in Zakopane. It was probably the best place to make trips to the mountains. The nuns had good prices and best localisation (Kuźnice) in the whole town. Only 10mins to the trial and to the funicular. We stood up at about 6.30-7.00 o'clock and after breakfast headed off to the trial every day. We were walking to the tops as soon as possible to enjoy the splendide view and to rest as soon as possible. The weather never surprised us fortunately. One day we almost were taken by the small avalanche (stones shower) which missed us but 1 or 2 meters! It was really close! The other day - it seemed a foggy day - we arrived at the top and over there we saw a miracle. On the left it was a wonderful sunny day - on the right - fog! The mountain divided the sun and fog like a knife.
It was awesome.
Then we usually came home after it got dark, ate dinner and headed to the pub for 1 or 2 beer - or stayed at vthe convent and played cards for hours. The midnight was our bed-time. And in 6-7 hrs we were ready for next day.
One time in the same place as we did, lived irish guys for 1 week. But i decided: hey, they shouldn't be that lazy, let's pretend to not understand the almost language and let them try in all the languages of the world to comunicate with us. And we had to comunicate, coz we lived with them few days hahaha. So the poor irish guys tryed with hands, legs, paintings and all possible ways of non-verbal-comunication untill they were forced to recall the languages they learnt at school. And - as hard as it was - some of them started with french, after 3 days they even learnt some polish words and so they could say 'cześć' (hi) or 'dzień dobry' in the morning or 'dobranoc' when they went to bed. so after a week of survival language course we invited them to a pub, we bought them beer and started talk in english, ups, sorry - in almost-language. they opened  their eyes wide  and tehir mouths as well (almost everyone from our group spoke it).  It was really very funny.

And now the lesson for  everyone from the english-spoken countries: if u are visiting a foreign country don't be so impertinent and don't expect everyone will speak ur language.  It's unashamed and cheeky. Remember u r guest there. Make some efford and learn at least how to say 'hallo', 'sorry' and such stuff. It will 'open u more doors' as u could ever expect.