The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

It's been a while since I wrote a post that I usually commit here, not a good-food-post or an advertisement of a chain bakery, but just my own style not informative at all type of post. So here it is. I just want to write about my last month, which I spent mostly at work. It was quite intense, so intense that I had to give up quite a few events, and which was also a reason a few people got mad at me, cause I'm always busy. High schools friends say that I'm mean because I don't want to preserve our friendship and it's sad. Because I can't give up work, which gives me this satisfaction! Because it does. I love it, because I am learning everyday. And not only me, but every worker in the hotel needs to go through trainings from time to time. It's like at school, you have to learn and pass a test later on. That being said, tomorrow I have a 'basic revenue management' training, which name was quite vague for me until I decided to consult it with wikipedia. Thanks Ms. Wikipedia, you were a huge help!!!

And when I'm not working or sleeping dead after work, I go to trainings and prepare for the next performance. Meeting Japan's prime minister's wife wasn't quite as I imagined it. She was very nice, and taller than I though she would be, she took a photo with us, but when I expected that the so-called "dinner with Mrs. Abe" will be a real dinner with Mrs. Abe - sharing the same table and chatting happily, it turned out that she is too much of a VVIP person to share a meal with a common people like us. She left with all the important people - Manggha Museum's director (who was rude enough to come late and make a ruckus during our performance - damn her), our Japanese studie's Main Professor (he's my idol, seriously <3 ) and some embassy people and ate with them, while we were given some buffet food, a duck and potatoes.

It was quite yummy.

But I was quite dissapointed.
This time we will dance in the same museum with one only difference, we can invite some people we know. We only got 10 invitations per whole dance group, but suprisingly my friends turned out to be quite interested in attending. The dance I'm practising is not really something one would be crazy about, but it's fun for me. I really hope that the people that comes won't be too bored and dissapointed!

Kraków - spot no 2

On a unexpected date with Ellen, who was shopping in Bonarka City Center we went to eat some cakes in a small stall inside the mall and I even took photos of the desserts we tried.

1. Czarny las
The one that Ellen ordered. That's a must-try for people who like chocolate, because it was intensively chocolatish. The white cream was awesome too.

2. Macadamia cake
...is what I chose. A creamy cake with macadamia nuts. It was quite sweet, very very very sweet, so if you prefer something less sweet, but more fruity, go back to my first post about cakes from Krakow ^^

The cake... and someone's sneakers in the background.

And I have another thing I want to add. I went to the Buczek Bakery again and I tried truffle muffin. It was sweet and tasty, but a bit dry. But it matched cappuccino just fine!

 

Oh, and let me add a cake I tried in our hotel's restaurant! I don't have a clue what kind of cake that was. It had a light milky cream on shortbread and a strawberry on top. Delicious! (And free~~!)

 

Well, enough cakes for now!

 

 

Krakow places - Spot no 1.

It's been 1,5 months since I started my new job. It's still not a full-time job yet, but it's a job I want to do, in a great environment and opportunities. Today I got my contract extension till the end of this year. To celebrate I went to my usual place after work. It's just another chain bakery where I was buying bread sometimes one year ago, when I was still eating bread everyday, at least 3 times a day. Never had I expected this bakery to develop so much as to change into a nice and cozy hangout for myself.

Walking to my bus stop, the bakery I want to talk about is halfways. A perfect location to tempt Pam into going inside. Another being window seats. Yet another, free wireless internet connection, with no passwords needed. The bakery is called 'Buczek' (read: boochehk) and it's one of countles Buczeks scattered around center of Kraków. Orange-red colour of its logo and interior design makes it quite distinctive next to all the gray buildings around. The Buczek Bakery offers variety of breads, buns, cakes and desserts, as well as cheap, but tasty coffee prepared in something looking like a good quality coffee machine. I go there everytime I work in the morning, so this month it wasn't that often. But I had a chance to try a few items from their "menu".

1. Peach & Passionfruit musse.

A delicate pudding/musse with peach and passionfruit taste, finished with a coctail cherry. A very satisfying treat. Not too sweet, not to dull either. A perfect dessert for hot days and a cup of coffee.

2. Blackcurrant roll.

Blackcurrant jam/jelly filling in a thin sponge cake. I'm not a fan of black currant, so I didn't like the sweet-sour taste, neither the consistence of jellyish filling. The best thing for me personally was the thick layer of white chocolate on the top and decoration made of almond flakes. I wouldn't recommend it to people who have similar taste to mine, but if you wish, try and judge it yourself!

3. Fruit tartlet

Fruit tartlets are never a bad choice. White cream with a surprise of marmalade inside, delicate shortbread and variety of fruits on top. I spcifacally chose the one with both strawberries and kiwis, it had also one pineapple piece!

4. Coffee
I always drink cappuccino with no sugar (thanks to Ellen I started to drink it like this) and it's okay. Not a coffee which makes you sight with amazement, but a good coffee to start or end (in my case) your day at work. Everytime you buy something in the bakery, you get a post-it with discount printed on it, which makes the coffee cost 3 pln next time you come ^^)/ How awesome is that!

Buczek Bakery is cool and if you have a chance, try tasting some of their delicacies!