Me at the lake
The Lake at the Hotel
The Hotel
Incredible prices
Yesterday I was out with Katka in a great pub. The inside was like siting in a cottage, like in the winter. It is a perfect feeling to get winterish when it so hot in this country and to the beers, wow. The price of an ice cold beer served in a half of liter glass is amazing, 0,66 euro. And you know what, the price for a 4cl shot is about the same. Around 0,70-1,50 euro, it feels like I am in heaven when I realize I will stay here for one year and go to the pub and pay this prices. I assume I can live with it;) So back to when I was out with Katka. I was thinking about which beers I tried and I have to put them in a list. The beers I drank is, Zlaty bazant, Kozel, Kelt, Saris, Smedny mnich (means: thirsty monk), Strbrno, Staropramen. My favourite this far is Zlaty bazant. It is a mediumlight beer and has rich taste. I love this beer in this hot weather and it is perfectly served with St. Nikolaus Vodka. The St. Nikolaus Vodka is definitely my favourite among the stronger alcohol. It is so smooth! The beer I did not prefer at all was the ukrainan. The taste was strange and had not the same quality as to the Slovaks and Czechs but for the record, the stronger alchohol is cheap there. All the beers I tried of Slovak and Czech are in worldclass taste and quality. Yeah it is great beers and the prices are incredible. I enjoy it so much. And the feeling to go out and drink and it does not cost anything is amazing. It feels so good to sit in the bar and spend time there. It is a clear difference for me when I am in Sweden. I think I will like it here very much.
So how much did I pay when we were finished to go? 4beers,1shot, 2 Kofola (Slovak soft drink), 2 cakes and 1 ice cream totally cost was 6 euros. It’s pretty goody!
Today I have bought a book. It is a textbook for beginners learning Slovak. So now I will really try to study hard so I can learn Slovak. It is a nice motivation to be able to speak the language because then I can communicate with Katkas family. I think the pronunciation will be the toughest part, sometimes the words katka teach me feels like toungetwisters but I will get it. One word I think is really fun to say is spelled like this “toto” and it means this. It is a lovely word and especially when Matus, the one and a half year old son to Katkas sister says it. It is cute when he points at something with his finger and say toto, toto. I like it. Katka also learned me the word prepa’c today and it is very useful. It means excuse me and it is good to use when you want to pass by someone.
I think we will go rollerblading today and in the evening meet Slavo and Hela. So bye bye for this time.
The beer list
Zlaty bazant Kozel Kelt Saris Smedny mnich Strbrno Staropramen
Slovak Word I learnt:
Toto: this
Prepa’c: Excuse me
Slovak for you
Na zdravie
Blagoff Mandarin! Ukrainan Vodka: 1,72 euro
Homemade applecake! yammy
My first traditional sunday meal
Every sunday, the traditional slovak shall eat meat, potato or rise. This sunday I had the chance to feel like a real slovak and i I took it. I tried the slovak sunday meal and it was nice, maybe because it is similiar with swedish. But I think it is a nice tradition to eat meat every sunday. On the plate there is also a cauliflower and I liked it fried. In the small bowl I had cucumbersalad.
So now I had tried the slovak cousine and in next week I will try to cook some swedish trational dish. I will see what that will be.
Traditional slovak sundaymeal
Kosice
Apollo Bridge in Bratislava
A beautiful picture of the castle in Bratislava by night
All u need to know about Slovakia
I have found a great website about slovakia. It is very helpful and the name is: The foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia. The website is created by an american woman that has lived in Slovakia for five years working as a teacher. She tells about the adapting in day to day basis and in generally about the culture. I think it is intresting reading for everybody, even for those that do not have plans to visit Slovakia will get knowledge and more awareness about the country.
The website: http://www.fgslovakia.com/
List of words and meanings I know so far in slovak language.
si zlata: you are so nice
voda: water
Dobre dievča: good girl
Dobre chlabec: good boy
Prestaň: stop it
Som hladny : Iam hungry
Iam thirsty: som smädny
Hot: Horuco
Djakuem: Thank you
Prosim: Varsegod
Rad vas pos na vam: Nice to meet you
Na zdravie: Cheers
spinning too much
This was my weakest punch.
they were happy
a bit of the partystreet
Sunbathing and having a good time
Me and Katka had the pleasure to go with Slavo, Hela and kids to a nice damn. In slovakia it is called the slovak sea because it big but we swimmed in the big pool. The place was great with a long street sourronded with bars, pubs and restaurants. Longer up u caould also go with merry go rounds. Me and Katka went with one but it was spinning so much. I got really sick out of it. Slavo and I played a boxing game. The one who hit the hardest got the highest points and of course I won.
This was a real partyplace and one bar was open nonstop so u never had to stop partying. It was really great to have the 1 liter beer and slavo had bought 2liter beers. I think it is perfect to possess on the beach or a for pick nick. U do not have to bring a lot of bottles then and it has a screwcork on it so the bubbles do not go away. Brilliant in my opinion for this kind of activites. I will also remember the nice meat I had in the restaurant. It was on a wooden stick and a sausage and pork. I enjoyed every single second, yammy, yammy.
I got of course quite burned in the sun. My shoulders got a nice red stingy touch. Well, it is better today but the sun is really stronger here. I just hope I get a nice tan before I go to croatia.
Today we do not have any plans. I think we will go rollerblading in the afternoon.
Slovak word I learnt:
si zlata: you are so nice
voda: water
Dobre dievča: good girl
Dobre chlabec: good boy
Prestaň: stop it
Crossing the ukrainian boarder
Today we took the bus to the ukrainian boarder. Then we walked in to cross. The woman that checked my passport had a reallz bad english. I thought she said Where are you? and I said Iam standing in ukrainian soil. She looked very angry at me and then I got it. She asked where are you from and I said Sweden. She was looking for so long at my passport asking so many questions about why Iam going to the ukraine and why Iam in Slovakia. I was quiet nervous and just wanted to cross. So finally she gave me a very strict look and nodded nochalant that I could pass. She was one of the most unpeasent people I ever met.
Then we did some shopping. It was a street with small stores along it. I bought some slippers and some Vodka. The vodka costed 1,72 euro, a very nice price. Then Katkas dad also bought ukrainian beer in a 1 liter bottle. So nice of him. We were supposed to buy 2 liter bottles of beer but did not have it but it will be nice to try the beer, of course!!!
Then we had to wait a while before we could cross the boarder back to Slovakia. They doublechecked everything and was really slow but Katka said it could be worse, it was really hot to stand there waiting. When it is getting cooler in the air we will go further in Ukraine to a city.
In just a half an hour we will go camping for two nights at a damn. It will be nice to swim and sunbath. We will go with Katkas sisters family. So I will write about that when I come back from the trip.
We were out yesterday with katkas family and had nice evening. They liked my gothenburg jokes and my jokes about norweigans. They also told some slovak jokes and some sayings. It was nice to listen too and we had a great all of us. It was good to get know each other better.
Slovak word I learnt
Som hladny : Iam hungry
