Arriving and Bus Rides

 

This language camp began when the campers and staff boarded a bus in Siedlce at 6 AM. The bells in the Siedlce Cathedral were chiming—announcing it was 6 AM as we were boarding. Dorota and Lori joined the campers at this time. We drove about 35 minutes west to Minsk Maz where we stopped at the Cultural Center and picked up more campers. Then we started on a highway south. About 45 minutes later we stopped at a gas station along the highway and picked up another camper.   Somewhere around 10 AM Dorota got a phone call from Nikita, the camper coming from Latvia. He had safely arrived in Kraków.

The bus arrived at the Kraków airport a bit before 2 PM. We gathered up David, Nancy, Kathy, Martha, Valerie, Gillian, Beverly and Brandon.  Thus we started on our way to Zakopane.

We arrived at our hotel, Cztery Pory Roku, sometime shortly after 5 PM. The hotel had our dinner ready. We surely enjoyed the meal. After eating we were assigned our rooms and tried to get a bit organized. Then some of us found our way to the back patio and enjoyed the beautiful view of the mountains . Meanwhile a wesele was warming up in the Karczma area of the hotel, an activity which was “enjoyed” by some of the volunteers until the wee hours of