Yesterday I went to a BBQ organized at one of the Technical University dorms. Now before you accuse me of hanging out with undergrads, know that every student here graduates with a Masters (being essentially a grad student) :) Anyway, my friend Olga and her man knew some people there and when I heard that there was free food to be had, I just couldn't say no.
The free food was a sad little BBQ, of which I started making fun, until I smelled the many delicious kinds of Polish sausage sizzling on it. You can see the regular sausages, as well as this awesome blood sausage wrapped with onion in tin foil. I haven't eaten food like that in years!
I also took a shot of the people standing around just to give you the idea of the place. In the background you can see the dorms. The nice things about Polish dorms (as if the soviet era architecture wasn't enough) is that there are no restrictions on alcohol. Everyone showed up to the BBQ with a few bottles or cans of beer (curiously not sold in six packs) and some of the students brought out home made vodka they've been distilling in their rooms. That last was actually pretty good at the time, though I had second thoughts about it this morning :) By the end of the evening everyone was sitting around in a circle on the grass telling jokes and making fun of Polish politicians -the butt of local Polish jokes. Finally we've left and stopped at a club. The place was incredibly stuffy which got about 10 times worse when we went to the basement where the dance floor was. The music was pretty good, though an oddly European mix - lots of Grease and Micheal Jackson. Lots of people dancing together something than can be described as a mix of hip hop and swing. The guys were spinning the girls around left, right and around, which in the low oxygen content made me dizzy from just watching them :)