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White Bus

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Snowy bus is a rare thing in my ex-city, most of them are actually red : ). This one here is staying at the bus stop in the city center. In the back You can see a yellow building with black tower - Lublin Town Hall: Polish people complain a lot at this time. It is dark and cold, it is windy and slippery - no way to reach workplace on time: ul. Gleboka means a Deep Street - deep in snow in this case : ). I really do not feel like going back to Winter Land : P brrrrrr I think that weather is one of the main reasons why White People decided to start a colonization of the tropic countries : ) source: http://www.kurierlubelski.pl/module-dzial-viewpub-tid-9-pid-69464-comments_startnum-21.html

Friction and Traffic Feel

Only one day after I read story on difficulties of Australian in Zurich I had a clash with Sydney public transport. It all started from my foot injury. Every week at 17.00 soccer guys from University gather together on the green fields out of campus to play. Because one player lost his sport shoes and the grass was very soft we decided to go bare-foot. Every now and then someone kicked the ball from the wrong angle resulting in twisted toe. I ve slid into greenless field patch with all speed and power. Heavy friction, skin off, blood on, player off. I went home. I missed the train of course. I had to wait 23 minutes for the next one. And the story from "Matrix" happened at Macquarie University station. Part of indicators went blur, with flowing vertical rows of numbers on them and the laudspeakers talked my head off with contradicting informations. Luckily I stepped on the right train. It happened first time to me. Train driver forgot to stop on my station. It seems that he ...