Fedrowanie w Iranie

Piątkowy Megahit

2009-03-27T08:04:00.007+01:00

Oto moment, na który wszyscy czekali ;>

13 minut, które wstrząśnie światem i instytucja świadka pana młodego już nigdy nie będzie taka sama :)

10.08.2007. Dzień, w którym narodziła się nowa gwiazda stand-up comedy. Dzień niesamowitego tańca w wykonaniu Miry i troszkę mniej niesamowitego w wykonaniu Piotrka. Dzień mojego świadkowania i wiążącego się z nim przemówienia (jest na filmie, zaraz po tańcu, około 5 minuty). Chyba nigdy w życiu nie byłem tak zdenerwowany, co zresztą widać :) Jak wyszło? Przekonajcie się sami. Enjoy!!

Dodam tylko, że pierwsze koty za płoty, śliwki robaczywki i generalnie mądry Polak po szkodzie. U JJa się nie będę denerwował bo zasmakowałem w świadkowaniu ;> To tylko przedsmak!!

P.S. Wróciłem do Iranu :) Pogoda nawet ok. Tylko powoli robi się za gorąco :p

UWAGA!!

2009-03-20T15:37:00.003+01:00

Tak jest. Mała misja, którą miałem w planach na ten urlop została wykonana i zakończyła się sukcesem. Już za parę dni na blogu specjalny film, na który z pewnością wszyscy czekacie...tjaa, jasne :P

Ale film będzie. Mały powrót do niedalekiej przeszłości, a dokładniej 10 sierpnia 2007. Kto miał, wątpliwą, przyjemność przeczytania wszystkich postów bądź też trafił na tę informację przypadkiem, skojarzy, że to data ślubu Miry i Walkera. Miałem zaszczyt być tam świadkiem i wygłosić przemówienie, które zresztą zrobiło furorę :)

Czy słusznie?Przekonacie się sami. Tylko u mnie, tylko na tym blogu, pierwszy raz w internecie - "Przemówienie Ufoka", horror w jednym akcie...

P.S.
Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji irańskiego nowego roku :) 1388 będzie na pewno świetnym rokiem!!

8/3/2009

2009-03-08T23:47:00.003+01:00

Wszystkim przedstawicielkom płci pięknej specjalne życzenia z okazji WASZEGO święta!!

Jesteście niesamowite, wszystkie razem i każda z osobna. Oj, byłoby bez was bardzo źle...

P.S.

Polskie dziewczyny są najładniejsze na świecie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S.S.

Wróciłem. Jest świetnie. Tylko pogoda lekko do bańki :)

Get ready!!

2009-03-05T17:39:00.001+01:00

Znowu się dzieje!Wracam na urlop do kraju.

Szykujta się :) Z wszystkimi chciałbym się zobaczyć. Plany?Wyjdą w praniu :)

Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll :p

Help me...

2009-02-13T11:57:00.003+01:00

Wiedziałem, że tak będzie. To się musiało zdarzyć. Połączenie mojej słabej woli oraz całej otoczki miejsca, w którym jestem to idealna mieszanka. Idealna dla nałogu. Nałogu, który opanował mnie całkowicie.

Już kiedyś z nim walczyłem i nawet udało mi się wygrać. Choć walka była ciężka i nierówna, z pomocą życzliwych mi osób dałem radę.

Wiedziałem, że tak będzie jak wrócę do Iranu. Znajomi, mający blade pojęcie o tej, nie bójmy się tego tak nazwać, chorobie, zazdrościli. Mówili "tam jest tego pełno, masz wielkie szczęście, to jest przecież 5 razy tańsze niż w Polsce, a do tego najlepsze na świecie". Zupełnie jakbym tego nie wiedział....

Głupi człowiek ze mnie. Myślałem, że mogę to kontrolować. Kupić raz, spróbować i na 100% nie chcieć tego więcej. Przechodzić obok tego obojętnie każdego dnia. Jak bardzo się myliłem...jakże się myliłem....

Kupiłem raz. Niewiele. Tak na jeden raz. Wchłonąłem w kilka minut. Było mi dobrze. Od razu poprawił się humor. Serce zaczęło wolniej bić, problemy przestały istnieć, mogłem oddać się błogości...

...i nie mogłem przestać o tym myśleć. Każdego dnia, każdej chwili, biłem się z myślami, chuciami, dziką chęcią ponownego spróbowania. Ale wałczyłem... walczyłem i poległem. I znowu kupiłem. Tym razem więcej. Miało starczyć na dłużej. Ale nic z tego. Zniknęło szybciej niż się spodziewałem.

Wtedy czara goryczy się przelała. Wpadłem po uszy. Wpadłem w szpony siły, której nie umiałem się przeciwstawić. Umysł opanowany został pragnieniem większej ilości tego świństwa. Diabelskiego wymysłu, który od kilku tygodni nie opuszcza mnie na krok. Który przeklinam, ale bez którego nie wyobrażam sobie dnia...

...irańskich pistacji solonych. To złooooooooooooooo ukryte w łupince...

Black cat, white cat...

2009-02-10T20:37:00.003+01:00

01/2009

2009-01-01T17:38:00.003+01:00

Jest i Nowy Rok. Nowe nadzieje, nowe początki, stara bida :)

Sylwester, jedyny w swoim rodzaju, jakoś przeżyłem. Niektórzy nawet mieli możliwość oglądania mojej zakazanej facjaty dzięki Skype (product placement ;p ). Fajnie było was zobaczyć.

Odrzuciłem zaproszenia od Dody i innych Ibiszów i godzinę 24 przywitałem wspólnie z Domi. Co prawda ja w Iranie, Domi w Meksyku :) , ale było bardzo miło i dziękuję, że się ze mną męczyłaś.

Niektórzy również mieli możliwość usłyszeć mnie w telefonie (wiem, mój głos jest magiczny). Brzmieli na zaskoczonych pozytywnie :)

Mam nadzieje, że każdy spędził Sylwestra w pozytywnym nastroju, z fajnymi ludźmi i bawiąc się świetnie. No i jeszcze raz, Happy New Year...Oby niektórzy z was mieli to szczęście ;>, spędzić Sylwestra 2009 ze mną :)...

Noruzetan piruz bad

2008-12-31T14:38:00.004+01:00

W sumie nie wiem nawet co napisać. Czy to ma być coś w formie podsumowania?Życzeń?Kolejnego bzdurnego postu o kebabach, dżemiku czy innych krewetkach (aaa,krewetki w sosie czosnkowym, smażone na maśle :) )....Pewnie wszystko po trochu...

Co się zdarzyło w 2008?

Wróciłem do Iranu. Kraju, w którym spędziłem 6 m-cy roku 2007. Kraju, który całkowicie zmienił moje życie, a może jedynie mam takie wrażenie. Kraju, który daje mi możliwości materialne, doświadczenie zawodowe i życiowe, ale który też i zabiera mi wiele rzeczy, ale sam zdecydowałem. Nikt mnie przecież nie zmuszał. Kraju, który wiele mnie nauczył i pozwolił wiele zrozumieć (pokazuje to sonda obok, w której już 3 osoby zdecydowały, że "zwariowałem całkowicie" :) ).
W Iranie tak naprawdę zrozumiałem ile jest w Polsce osób mi życzliwych, ilu mam przyjaciół, co jest wielkim skarbem. To do was między innymi wracam, a "Ufok's Welcome Party", ze zmordowanym po podróży autorem tego bloga, stały się już tradycją :)
W lutym myślałem, że to tylko do września. W maju jednak cyrograf datowany był już na 30 kwietnia 2009 roku. Więc nie zostało tak bardzo długo...
A tak właściwie, nigdy bym nie pomyślał, choćby i dwa lata temu, że będę fedrował, z kilofem w łapie, kaskiem na głowie. Do tego w Iranie. Życie jest czasem zaskakujące...

W czerwcu koncert The Police w Chorzowie. Chłopaki w formie, zdarte gardło (nie po raz ostatni w tym roku). "Every thing she does...", "Roxanne" czy "Message in a bottle". Wszystko jednego wieczora, na żywo. Niestety na Ironsów nie udało się dotrzeć...
Wrzesień to moje urodziny. Dziękuję wszystkim, którzy byli. Jesteście niesamowici. I mam nadzieję, że wam się podobało. No i do zobaczenia :) Fajnie też, że udało się spotkać z wieloma z was po tylu latach od liceum...
Drugi raz gardło zdarłem w grudniu. "Za Lechem przemierzamy cały świat". Mecz z Feyenoordem w Rotterdamie. 1:0 dające nam awans. 3000 gardeł przez cały mecz pokazujące gdzie są najlepsi kibice w Europie. Kordon z koni, trochę nadaktywna policja holenderska...
Pamiętam jak chodziłem z JJem na mecze Lecha w drugiej lidze. Przyjeżdżały "silne", z całym szacunkiem, jedenastki Tłoków Gorzyce, Dolcana Ząbki. Na trybunach 2000 osób. Zastanawialiśmy się czy dożyjemy momentu gdy Kolejorz zdobędzie Mistrzostwo Polski. Niech to będzie w tym roku. Takie małe życzonko :)
Ostatnie ważne wydarzenie dokładnie 19/20 grudnia. Zostałem przez JJa (kto zać wiedzieć powinna większość, powiem tylko, że takich przyjaciół życzę każdemu) poproszony o bycie świadkiem na jego ślubie z Mają. Nie powiem by była to dla mnie pierwszyzna :) Ale zaszczyt wielki i postaram się dać z siebie wszystko i zrobić ponownie furorę przemówieniem.
Świadek świadkiem, a kiedy pan młody?? :p

Jakie plany sylwestrowe?Hmm...Na swoje imprezy zapraszają mnie Krzysiu Ibisz, Ania Popek, Doda, Feel - nie wiem na co się zdecydować :) Kontrabanda niestety prawdopodobnie nie dotrze, więc do łóżeczka o 22 :) Bo jutro do pracy... Ciekawe gdzie mnie wywieje na kolejny...

Postanowienia?Czy z nimi nie jest tak jak ze spadającą gwiazdą. Gdy się upublicznią, czy wciąż są ważne?

1)Zrozumieć czego chcę w życiu
2)Jamajka!!!!
3)Nauczyć się perskiego
4)Żonglować 4 piłeczkami
5)Robić jeszcze lepsze kanapki ;>
6)Pojechać wreszcie na narty!!
7)Zakończyć akcję "Ciacho" ;>

A Wam życzę by przyszły rok nie był gorszy!Zdecydowanie lepszy!
Byście nie żałowali swoich decyzji i się jak najczęściej uśmiechali!
I pamiętali o Ufoku na wygnaniu...
Dzięki, że jesteście!!!

I po świętach...

2008-12-29T17:13:00.015+01:00

No i mamy tydzień między Świętami i Nowym Rokiem.
Sezon ogórkowy w pełni. To i ja mam głupkowate pomysły.

Dzisiaj mała zagadka - znajdź 5 różnic między poniższymi zdjęciami kebabu/kebaba/kebaby :). Niby to kebab i to kebab,ale... No właśnie. :)

Pomyślicie - "Co mu odbiło?Post o kebabach.Wtf?"
Hmm. Po prostu dzisiaj na kolację był kebab, zwany przez nas pieszczotliwie "knutami". Głęboko wierzę, że to irańska potrawa narodowa, jak również, że nasz kucharz ma powołanie. Niestety jedynie do wojska :)
Wierzę również, że ma wielką książkę kucharską...Ale my przecież niewierni jesteśmy dla nich :)
No ale i tak jego popisową potrawą jest spaghetti a'la iranese :)

Kebab jest w poniedziałki. Spaghetti w środy. Nasz kucharz nie należy do spontanicznych osób i menu jest takie samo co tydzień. Do tego dochodzą również: pseudo gulasz zwany "kośćmi (kawałki mięsa, dawniej i kości, razem z ziemniakami i jakimiś dziwnymi śliwkami), kurczak (po prostu kurczak, bez dodatków) oraz coś czego nie mogę sobie przypomnieć (bywały też wariacje nt. knutów - kotlety mielone i kolejny pseudo gulasz (to akurat było dobre!!!).

Dla urozmaicenia jadłospisu chodzimy do pizzerii (tak, irańskiej pizzerii, ale pizza pewnie i tak lepsza niż we Włoszech :) ). No i pozostają koła ratunkowe w postaci kontrabandy przywożonej z Polski. Niestety limity objętościowe walizki ograniczają ich ilość i znikają po miesiącu od urlopu (ale szacunek dla producentów za Kindziuk oraz kabanosy z dziczyzny).

No tak śniadanie. Urozmaicone jak w najlepszych hotelach.
-Winszuje pan sobie jajeczko?Proszę bardzo, sadzone jajeczko razy dwa.
-Winszuje pan sobie dżemik wiśniowy?Proszę bardzo, dżemik (nie wiedzieć czemu łatwiej go wypić niż posmarować nim chleb).
-Winszuje pan sobie biały serek (zwany tutaj fetą)?Proszę bardzo, nasz klient, nasz pan.
-Winszuje pan sobie...Oh, przepraszam. To koniec menu śniadaniowego.
I tak każdego dnia. Jajeczko, serek, dżemik.Jajeczko, serek, dżemik. Every focking day!!

No dobra. Koniec kulinarnych rozważań. Mała aopowiastka z życia kopalni.
Gdy byłem na urlopie, pewnego dnia rano, w pracy nie pojawiła się duża grupa pracowników. Dziwnym trafem jeździli tym samym autobusem, który jednak przyjechał prawie pusty. Okazało się, że tenże autobus od jakiegoś już czasu zawsze przyjeżdżał po pracowników spóźniony. Irańczycy sprytny naród pomyśleli:
"Po diabła mamy przychodzić o czasie, spieszyć się z piciem herbaty, skoro autobus i tak się spóźnia".
No to tego dnia autobus postanowił zrobić im psikusa i przyjechać o czasie :)
Kierowca pomyślał: "Po co mam na nich czekać. Jestem przecież o czasie. Nie będę czekał skoro na kopalni już parzy się czaj". No i pojechał, a Irańczycy, którzy przyszli o czasie/poniewczas :) nie pojechali do pracy :)

I na koniec cytat z jednej z piosenek, które wam przygrywają: "Doner kebab ist philosophie" :) Swoją drogą na 4 utwory, 3 są śpiewane/tudzież monorecytowane przez francuzów (un kebab avec salad s'il vous plait , a jeden po niemiecku (ein kebab mit salad und mayo bitte) :)
By the way, zauważyliście jak czule można śpiewać o kebabie?Sam Charles Aznavour nie zaśpiewałby tego lepiej... :)

Nie ma co. Zwariowałem....

P.S.
Ci śpiewający po niemiecku są jednak z Polski. How stranger can it get?Polacy, śpiewający po niemiecku, w rytmach czeskiej polki, o kebabie?? :) A jednak nie. To nie Polacy. Choć w składzie jest Andreas Wieczorek :)

Święta...

2008-12-24T06:14:00.004+01:00

No i jest. 24 grudnia, Wigilia Bożego Narodzenia.

Początek najważniejszych świąt dla osób, dla których jakiekolwiek święta się liczą. Rodzinnych, pełnych obżarstwa, prezentów i hitów telewizyjnych.

Przyznam, że dla mnie święta zawsze przychodziły i przelatywały raz dwa. Człowiek siedział w domu bądź poodwiedzał rodzinę, którą odwiedza raz na rok, pooglądał telewizję i się nawpierniczał - ale dałbym dużo za nawpierniczanie się takie właśnie teraz.
No cóż. Taka praca i mnie tu wywiało. Chyba robię się trochę za bardzo sentymentalny :)

Nevermind.
Czego wam życzyć?

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Chyba tego by to o czym marzycie się powolutku spełniało, choćby małe życzenia na początek (np. o gorącej kąpieli we własnej wannie :) ), które przerodzą się w spełnianie większych życzeń i tych największych.
Spokojnych i fajnych świąt w rodzinnym gronie i osób wam najbliższych. Karpia, łazanek, makiełek i wszystkiego tego co musimy potem zrzucać przez 2 miesiące :)
Tego by "Kevin sam w domu" nigdy sie nie nudził :) By kojarzył się ze świętami.
A przede wszystkim masę takiej prostej dobroci, dawanej i otrzymywanej...
No i wypasionych prezentów :)

Tego życzę ja.
Teraz chyba pójdę po rybę do stawu :) Myślicie, że ktoś się zorientuje??

I'm back

2008-12-22T20:56:00.001+01:00

Wróciłem... :/

Niech żyje nam, górniczy stan!!

2008-12-04T14:00:00.002+01:00

Tak jest. Dzisiaj Barbórka. Od dwóch lat to też i "moje" święto. I nie uważam by była to przesada.
W zeszłym roku faktycznie podczas Barbórki miałem przerwę w ciągłości pracy pod ziemią :) Ale teraz jestem górnik pełną gębą :)

Wiadomo. Do górnika mi dużo brakuje. Ale coś w tym jest...

Wszystkim górnikom niech będzie chwała. Wykonują kawał ciężkiej roboty (no przynajmniej większość :) :) :) ). Naprawdę. Teraz to doceniam...

Na pohybel... :)

Sponsor

2008-12-03T16:40:00.003+01:00

Sponsorem dzisiejszego dnia jest liczba 1!!!

Została mi jedna podróż autem na kopalnie, jeden powrót z kopalni, jeden raz na siłowni, jedne SKSy, jeden raport do napisania, jedna kolacja do zjedzenie, jeden obiad, jedna wizyta w mieście i pewnie jeszcze kilka innych pojedynczych spraw zanim...

...pojadę na urlop. Tak jest. W piątek rano wyruszam do Polski, gdzie dotrę w sobotę 6 grudnia. Do 22 grudnia będziecie się mogli cieszyć moją obecnością :) i mieć mnie serdecznie dosyć!!

Muszę przyznać, że te dwa i pół miesiąca minęły całkiem szybko i nawet nie chciałem nikogo mordować (a przynajmniej nie w masowych ilościach).

Anyway, po powrocie z urlopu mam nadzieję nadrobić zaległości blogowe (trochę się działo przez te ponad 2 miesiące i na urlopie też się będzie dziać, oby). A teraz mówię - do szybkiego zobaczenia. The boy is coming back to town!!

p.s.
Jak mogliście zauważyć pojawił się wpis po polsku. Nie ma sensu dalej udawać, że to międzynarodowy blog :) (żartuję, naprawdę czytało go kilka osób, które z polskiego niewiele rozumieją :) ). Jakoś nie chciało mi się pisać po angielsku. Jeśli dostanę 2500 próśb o wersję angielską to takowa się pojawi, jeśli nie, to już więcej nie wróci.

[] o_o [] trick or treat

2008-10-31T20:52:00.001+01:00

The big comeback...

2008-10-24T20:38:00.002+02:00

People get ready...Sit on the edge of your sits...Bite your nails...The blog is coming back to life...
But just not yet...Give me just a little more time...

I'll be back with me wits at their most :)

My life is changing :) (so is the Euro ;> )

Hope someone still remembers this web address...

P.S.

Happy Birthday to Aga P. and Aga G. (22nd and 26th of October respectively)....
You are the best...

Just pictures...

2008-08-23T12:26:00.004+02:00

Dziubelki, thanks a million!!

2008-08-11T18:46:00.008+02:00

Piotr - "That must have been about me..."

New star of stand up comedy!

Believe it or not - he's been practising

Magda (Mira's sister) - What is she doing?
Mira - What am I doing?
Piotr - I am going to be a banker!!

Mira - I am so happy!
Piotr - I am so lost!

So it's a deal! A very good deal!!

Piotr - I'll cry if you start to!

Proud to be together forever!

Fantastic 4 - The bride, matron of honor, best man, groom (believe it or not - he's a banker).

Piotr - Whoa. It's raining petals.

The best man superstar :)

Mira - Dziubel, look serious!

Walker - I am going to be a banker :)

I know it was yesterday but I was kinda bedazzled with all that's been happening recently.
Yesterday was the 10th of August, first anniversary of Mira's and Dziubel's wedding.
And I had the honor of being Dziubel's Best Man. The best Best Man there could ever be - that goes without saying.

Anyway, congratulations to you. You are the best. I love you and you know that. And being a Best Man at your wedding was one of the best moments in my life and certainly one of the moments I am most proud of. Thank you for the opportunity. I think I did good :) And my speech - one to be remembered for a long time (as soon as I get hold of it everyone will be able to see it - that is of course if I get permission from Mira and Piotr).

Take care...

P.S.

Jay Jay - it's your turn now ;>

Smoke on the fire...

2008-07-31T19:42:00.007+02:00

720° and still going

Ooooo. A ladybird....

I really got the moves!!

Milo and The Mask...

Can a man's legs get any sexier?Can a man get any lazier?

It's ok. Just one sip too many.

Oh my god. My life is a tragedy.

A friendly tap on the back always does the trick.

Close encounters of the third kind.

When I was on holiday in Poland we (with my friends) in the woods :) to spend some time doing something completely different than we normally do when we meet (pub). For the first time in many years I spent several hours in the open (meening that I was close to nature :) ).
Really nice time that was. Looking forward to repeating it again (most probably next year)!!

All pictures are © by Lukafa.

Strange morning...

2008-07-30T18:13:00.003+02:00

I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock (mobile phone). One that can wake up the dead (at least it wakes up the people next door :) ). So I woke up. Thinking I was late I rushed to the bathroom, took a quick shower,etc., got dressed and run out of the house to have breakfast.
First thing that struck me was the sky. Normally at 4.55a.m., the sun is starting to stretch and get up out of it's bed and you can honestly call it dawn. And today it was dark. Dark like OH MY GOD :). It was like dark, totally dark :)
The second strange thing was that the place were we have our breakfasts and dinners was closed and dark inside. "They must be late again" - I thought. So I sat on a step and waited for about 10 minutes.
It was then when the first intelligent idea of the day came to my mind. "Oi, mate. What's the time. Soat chande?". So I took out me mobile and checked the time. It was 1:56 a.m. Yes. What the f*** was I thinking?How the hell did I manage to get dressed, have a shower, wash my teeth and not take a peek at the time?And how the hell did I hear my alarm clock?
This is when I was enlightened - it was a dream. I dreamt of my alarm clock going off!!!
Man, how much stranger can my dreams get?How much stranger can I get?

Weather Channel

2008-07-29T19:14:00.003+02:00

Temperature in Tabas: 43° C

Ufok's temperature: 38.5°C

Not good...But I am fighting and won't give up. The Longwall needs me :)

Ufok 3 Spiders 0

2008-07-28T18:02:00.002+02:00

Today they sent a freaking ninja spider. Unfortunatelly for him, he was spotted while he was trying to approach me unnoticed. But even then he did not give up. I (having been in the Shaolin Monastery for 7 years) have the moves of a snake, grabbed a newspaper. It was his move and...
he jumped!!Yes, I have never seen a jumping spider before. He jumped about 3cm (not much, but it's like 10 times his length).

Sadly enough, it was his last jump as immediately after the newspaper landed on his head.

But it's not over yet. I thought he was history, sneaking on flies in Valhalla (wait, he can't have been a Viking spider). But I couldn't find his corpse anywhere.

Is it possible?Was he just a product of my imagination?Well, I did not want to take the chance to test that. I am becoming a serial spider murderer. But, as I said before, it's either them or me...
Easy choice for me, isn't it?

P.S.
My cold is getting worse. My leg hurst more. I am starting to have the second month syndrome...
Take care...

Post number 30...

2008-07-27T17:14:00.002+02:00

Nothing special to celebrate this little anniversary. But you have to notice that this, at least I think so 'cause I'm too lasy to check, is the first time I wrote something two days in a row.

Today I feel very bad. Yesterday I played football and my foot is in great pain again. An old injury of mine is saying "Hi" in a very specific way. It's like when you hit someone on the head when wanting to say "I love you". Maybe I am getting old :) My foot hurts, my knee hurts.

And even worse is the fact that I caught a cold. A cold?In Iran?Yeah, right ;> But it's true. It's finally getting colder I think (I slept under a blanket for the first time in a month, but still without the underwear :p). It's good. I will finally be able to start getting a suntan. have too remember that I am going to Poland in just over a month (40 days left).

And of course I started a 6-week, 5-days-a-week fitness schedule. 2x football, 3x swimming pool. You will not recognize me when I am back!Really :) Though the schedule has not been very binding so far :) But I had serious reasons to skip 3 days at the swimming pool - my injuries and the cold today. I am going tomorrow. By the way, swimming is really cool...

Ok.I'm off too bed. To fight the virus.

Ah, what the hell...

2008-07-26T15:19:00.005+02:00

I'm back. "Where he belongs" some may add. Maybe it's true?But to what extent?Am I really becoming an alien (coincidence) in Poland?An ex-pat?It's been only a year in Iran, so not that long. But it's still some time before I finish my contract. Who knows what then?!Do you know?Can you tell me where I am going to go this time?
One thing's for sure. I am planning the trip of my life. 2 months in Asia. Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand (I've got my agent right there now :) ), Laos. Keep your fingers crossed. And of course all of you are very invited to accompany me, at least for some time.
Anyway. As most of you know I've changed my colors. Am now working for a different employer, in the same place as before. On slightly different terms. That's all you need to know. You never know who's reading this :)
We live in the same camp as during my second spell in Iran. The one with a pond and a cat. It's ok. But now Iran and Tabas is not quite the place to be. It's the middle of the summer. Hot as hell. Hotter than last year. Haile garm, mister, haile garm. Di sol, haile garm nist! :)
Don't really know what to start with. So i'll start with my holiday. Yes, I was in Poland for a bit longer than two weeks in June (managed to see the excellent performance our national team put up during the Euro. It was so splendid, that even one english referee lost his head and one polish chap, working in Iran, lost 200PLN on that game).
The time in Poland was great. As always. Especially if you're going for a short time. Lot's of things happening, lot's of friends around (actually I still have some friends and thank you for that).
For the first time in my life I went to Krakow to party (strange, as my grand mother lives there). And I fell in love with this city. IT IS PURE MAGIC. Me mate from university works there and he showed me around. We visited a few places, I met lots of different people (from all over the world) and saw hordes of drunk englishmen :) Come on. Can you believe that I even danced to Village People's "YMCA" on a hen party?? (No, i did not earn extra money as a stripper though it might be tempting, judging by the applause i got). If you can, go to Krakow. Especially in the summer.
I also went to see The Police in concert. In Chorzow.

They still have it...

Every little thing they played was magic, one could say rephrasing one of their songs. 90 minutes (a bit too short) of great music. I was singing (oh my god), dancing (show me the moves, baby) and jumping (Malysz Adam you are not, young Padavan). Jumping so hard that I sprained me ankle (or at least thought so, 'cause it was ok the following day). The best were, if I were to pick three: "Can't stand losing you", "Every little thing she does is magic" and "Roxanne" (you can watch it below). It's good I had the chance to see them live as it was probably the last time they were in Poland (or at least until they run out of money and plan another reunion tour :) ). Put your hands up in the air...

We (together with Dziubelki - me bestest friends) then went to Tychy, to visit Mira's parents (Mira is the head of the Dziubelki family :p). Gosia and Grzegorz are one of the most positive people I have ever met. Really. We had golonko (though not the one we planned to have), loads of beer and Zoladkowa Gorzka (poor Dziubelek...). And from Tychy I went for yet another weekend in Krakow (I just can't get enough!!). Dziubelki and family: Ciocia Jola, Mira, Dziubelek,
Siostra Dziubelk (Ania), Brat Dziubelka (Paweł).
Though it should be Dziubel as he's a serious banker now :P

Cekin. Mira's dog. Lives in Tychy with Gosia and Grzesiu

My holiday leave did extend a bit but finally I was back in Iran. And am here since then. Get ready for the beginning of September as this is when I'll be back in Poland for another holiday. Cool, isn't it?
Ok. I gotta go. I am playing football tonight. Showing the Iranians what football really is. Teaching them the Polish way (though I doubt whether they are very fond of learning after our performance at the Euro). I'll be back soon and continue this trully exciting story. See you in a while...

I'm back. Scored 2 goals and had 1 assist (my team scored 7 in total). But they were all flukes :) Really. And the first game (we played 5 x 5minute games) was a disaster. I didn't know where I was or what I was doing. Really. But it's the heat. Yes, deffo. The heat and exhaustion of my organism. Yes, that's it :)
One thing is bothering me, though. The spiders that are apparently attacking my bedroom. At present they are sending recon squads (one spider at a time). Probably making tactical maps of my bed. But I am affraid they are planning a frontal attack since the recon spiders did not manage to get back to the Headquarters (buahahahahaha - it was a devilish laugh!!). So in order to revenge their brothers, they'll send a squad of well trained, navy spiders. I have to be ready for that. And I won't give up!!!
Not much more has happened since I got here. So you'll have to excuse me. I'll be on me way. Luv ya all. And miss ya!!
Take care...

Making love in an airplane toilet....

2008-07-07T22:35:00.008+02:00

Don't miss the exciting and juicy story. Coming soon to a blog near you...

"Exceptional" - The Evening Standard

"Best movie of the year" - The New York Times

"Revolutionary. Wlodarczyk is the new Fellini" - Vanity Fair

"Bloody good" - The Sun

"Two thumbs up!!" - The Guardian

"Chapeaux bas" - Le Figaro

"Muy bien" - El Pais

"Can he get any better?" - Steven Spielberg

"Zats wunderbar" - Bild am Sonntag

"Touching. Surprising. Funny. A Masterpiece" - The Times

"And the Oscar goes to ... 'Making love in an airplane toilet'" - Billy Crystal

"I want to be in his next movie" - Salma Hayek

"Me too!" - Will Smith

"Pick me!Pick Me!" - Donkey

No animals were harmed during the making of this movie. This is not the voice of a slaughtered deer...

I'm baaaaack....

2008-05-17T00:17:00.017+02:00

Gyd myrning...I'm posting some more photos from my tour of Iran earlier this year :)
In other news...A lot has changed recently (well, not really) but I'll write about it later.

It's important who you know...

The longer the handle, the further the work...

Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Comet.
Anywhere is a place good enough for lunch...
My workplace. I go underground down the green tunnel.
" I can see clearly now my hair has gone..."
Mi scussi...
Off into the unknown. The three heroes...
Meet Ali - a legend...

And now for something completely different...

2008-04-05T16:57:00.011+02:00

There you go. Some photos of the place I am doing my time in... :)

Meet Joe Black...

Meet Even Blacker Joe...

Momma always told me not to stick my body parts into the floor...

After a hard day's work...

Red poppies of Monte Tabas...

Easter Sunday dinner...

The laziest cat in the world...

This is what I see when I go out of my room...

Today Iran, tomorrow the WORLD!!!!

You've been framed...

2008-04-02T16:33:00.003+02:00

Unfortunatelly to some, and fortunatelly to others, i have not extended my contract and, at least for now, will not be staying in Iran until the 20th of March 2011.
It was an April Fools' Day prank...I guess most of you will say that not funny.
Posting it on the 31st of March was my mistake. I thought it was 1st of April. Well, this is how time goes by here in Tabas. Sometimes you get lost.

Out of other news. My blog has gone even more international. It is now being read by my Iranian counterparts :) So please, let's have a big round of applause for Said and Hamidreza :)

Neverending story...

2008-03-31T16:21:00.003+02:00

So it's decided. I've agreed on a contract extension and will be staying in Iran until 20.03.2011...
Wow, seems a really long time, but hope it goes by fast.
I got a promotion and a raise so I cannot moan.
It was a hard decision but... I hope I'll appreciate it in the future...We'll see...
The only thing I'll miss is you guys....

take care...and don't be mad...

Mister, Easter...

2008-03-25T16:00:00.002+01:00

Easter, Easter and after Easter. Time goes by really fast here. It;s just been Christmas, New Year's Eve and now Easter.
Quite special days for most Poles but with limited resources here, we were unable to prepare a 2 day eating fest :) So we prepared a dinner on Sunday. Zurek, kabanosy, ham (not quite allowed in this country :) ). All looked quite nice and reminded it was Easter. We all sat at the same table, with our foreign work partners invited. The kitchen staff looked strangely at us as we were consuming the unmatched polish food.
New Year passed on unnoticed. Just another day. No party, no fireworks, no nothing. But I'll make up for it when I come back to Poland. So get ready... :) Of course that is after I come back from Thailand, where we'll rock and show them how to party (right? :) ).
Can't sleep at night. I have really strange dreams. Last night I was kind of possessed. I dreamt of myself being thrown around my room, screaming. Really strange.
And of course dreams of me fighting monster have come back. Haven't had them for a long time/ I'd rather have my dreams about vampires back, though being a medevial hero is also cool :) The thing is, how to interpret all this. Who are the monsters, who are my partnering heroes? :) I have some ideas but different people read this page, so I'll keep them to myself :)
Ah, I don't quite feel like writing today so it's the end. But do not weep, my dear fans (yeah, how many are there left?2,3? :) ), 'cause I'll be back. I'll hit like a sudden lighting, hurricane of fresh ideas, earthquake of jokes :)
khoda hafez..

Ho ho ho...Merry Christmas...

2008-03-15T16:51:00.003+01:00

Yes, yes, yes. It's not a mistake neither have I gone mad. It's 25.12 in the Iranian calendar. So it's Christmas Day...
Unfortunatelly no presents, or day off.But two Christmases in a year is something and if I live till 24.12.2008, which I sincerely hope I will, I'll be seeing Father Christmas twice in 2008.Or at least european 2008 because...
It's 1386 in Iran...Battle of Grunwald is in 24 years. So not that far. But the Teutonic Knights are starting to be a problem out here :)
Anyways, New Year is in one week. It's one of the most important holidays here in IRI, so everything stops for about a week. And people celebrate the No Ruz.
In our camp there is a pond (would call it a pool had it been 4 feet deeper) with lamps around it. And we can even turn on a fountain :) So like a top class hotel it is. Really nice and will be excellent for a party spot :) Yeah, it's good you don't get punished for dreams...
Work's ok, sun's getting nastier, temperature rising, Tabas slowly turning into hell on earth :)
Merry Christmas everyone,
cheerio

What's a man, without a woman??

2008-03-08T08:26:00.002+01:00

This is your day, though it's a big shame a lot of us cherrish you only today...You should be put on the piedestal everyday, worshipped, sung songs to, served delicious dishes and even accompanied while shopping (ok, this is too much :)).

What would be life without you?A stupid, meaningless, pointless and all day/night long party.Wait, this is good right? :))))))

You are the sense of our lives. Oh, and parties, mates and football are as well :) Just joking.

You know we love you. We ought to tell you that everyday but today is a good occassion to say that aloud. To all of you.

Back where I belong :)

2008-02-26T08:18:00.002+01:00

Hi there, you infidels!!Silence, I kill you...

So I am back here. Tabas, Yazd...
A few months ago, I didn't think I'd agree to go back, but here I am.For some time.

So the trip. The trip was quite ok. We started on Friday, 6:00 o'clock train to Katowice. Then we had to fill all the necessary documents, collect the equipment. After that we (me and my mate from Poznan) spent the rest of the day in Chorzow. Booked a room in a hostel located in the park where Stadion Slaski is :) And then it started snowing and all I had was a light jacket. But what the hell. We had a short trip round the park and to the nearest Carrefour to buy some polish beer (last one in at least 3 months).
Saturday was when the air journey started. First to the Pyrzowice airport. There we met the rest of the "Wreckless crew" :) The check-in (I had to repack my luggage and use my awsome communication and negotiation skills on the Lufthansa lady to let me pass with 6k of baggage over the limit-those who know me, know that i am irresistible so it was a piece of cake :) ),passport control and there we were - no way back :)
The Frankfurt airport did not change much. I had the biggest steak of my life. Unfortunatelly the price reflected its size :)
The flight to Tehran and the last drop of alcohol for a long, long time ;) Yes, i know that alcohol has been mentioned recently way more than the average but you must remember where I am...
And finally we arrived in Tehran, went through two baggage controls and were taken to a hotel. Quite nice I must admit. But we only had a two hours' sleep. This is the reason for my unfortunate incident the following morning.
After breakfast i was just about to leave the hotel and get into a taxi. So happy and thoughtless as I am, I banged right into the glass door. :) A loud bang . Hallo, Iran. This is Lucas coming back and wants everyone to know that :)
Then Tehran-Tabas and we were taken to the camp. Work camp :) Just joking.
Not the same one as before but really nice. Though the first impression was a bit different it is now all back into shape. Each of us has a room, own bathroom and kitchen. The place is quie tidy, people nice and food better than the last time.

It's been a week now and we all are getting used to the new/old lifestyle. Guess it's not bad 'cause the time is passing by quite fast and this is important.

I'll be back in Poland in July (most probably). So i'll miss the Euro (grrr!) but they say Iranian TV will be showing some games (it's better than TVP :) ). Go Poland :)

Oh, one more thing. I must be really a calamity :) Yesterday I fell down the stairs. These stairs are cunning bastards. Really nasty. I think they had been waiting for a chance to attack me since I came. And yesterday they were successful. I lost my ground and fell down. Banged my knee and right cheek bone :) But I'm ok. What does not kill you, makes you stronger! At least that's what people say :)

Infidels. Behold, thy friend is back in Iran...
take care...

p.s.
Ah, toilets. We have normal, european style toilets. Unfortunatelly they do not sing, massage or warm you bottom but are still much more friendly than the "Malysz type" iranian ones...This is good.
Got a good idea, since Adam had problems with his starting position maybe he could come to Iran and train a bit?

St. Barbara's day

2007-12-04T13:23:00.000+01:00

Long Live the MINERS!!!!!

To all the miners. I guess I could call myself one but this would be a exaggeration...A really big one :) So it's to all the people that really worked their assess of in Iran (now I'd be in this group :) ). Shame not everyone appreciates that....

Górniczy stan, heoj, niech nam żyje! Niech żyje nam górniczy stan!
Bo choć przed nami światło dzienne kryje, toć dla Ojczyzny trud ten jest nam dan.
Boć synowi podziemnych czarnych światów każdy chętnie poda swą dłoń.
Niech żyje nam, niech żyje nam górniczy stan! Niech żyje nam górniczy stan!

Czy nie słyszysz dzwonka z naszej wieży i kilofa, który wzywa nas?
Hej, do szybu niech z nas każdy bieży! „Szczęść nam Boże!” zaśpiewajmy wraz!
Boć synowi podziemnych czarnych światów każdy chętnie poda swą dłoń.
Niech żyje nam, niech żyje nam górniczy stan! Niech żyje nam górniczy stan!

Gdy nareszcze góry się zachwieją i wnijdziem, bracia, do światłości bram,
staniem wszyscy z tą błogą nadzieją, że złota miłość więzi serca nam.
Boć synowi podziemnych czarnych światów każdy chętnie poda swą dłoń.
Niech żyje nam, niech żyje nam górniczy stan! Niech żyje nam górniczy stan!

Da Godfather....

2007-12-03T16:13:00.000+01:00

So I became a godfather. Don Ufok...Capo di tutti capi... :)
The pictures below show my goddaughter. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, BARCA (with an 's')!!!
She's my friend's 7-week-old cane corso.

Sweet, intelligent, beautiful (ok, i've found a dog, how about a girlfriend? :) ).
You can play with me now, but i'll be 45kg heavy someday!

It wasn't me....

Have you seen my food???
Apart from that not much has changed. I am still sending CVs and waiting for some reply. Come on you people, I would be a great asset to any company.... :)
khoda hafez.haste naboshid...

Gooooodbyee Iran!!

2007-11-28T12:47:00.000+01:00

Welcome Poland!

First of all i'd like to say hi to my new fans in Katowice :) The saying "No matter what they say about you, as long as they speak about you" is very up to date :)

My contract ended yesterday. I've been in Poland since Friday.
The trip itself was ok. 12 hours on the bus to tehran reminded of school trips :) then a short wait at the airport, flight to frankfurt (scotch & soda bitte), then a wait at the frankfurt airport (tequilla,arriba arriba!!! - though at 8 Euro a shot it was not the best deal in our lives), then a flight to Katowice (Poland welcomes with a sandwich) and eventually a 5 hour train trip to Poznan (had to stand in the corridor until Wroclaw!!). So after merely 40 hours I was home. Woohoo. And...
I have this strange feeling. It's like I miss Iran a bit (oh my god, call a doctor, he went bananas!!). I guess after 6 months of living in one place you get used to it. To the people, the work, the place itself, the jackals performing concertos every night.
But this is Poland. I am happy to be here. But then again. I am in a bit of a standstill (just like the belts underground :) ). Don't really know what to do. I am waiting for some things to be finalized and then I'll start changing my life :) Or at least I'll try and organise it. We'll see. Meanwhile, i am cherrishing Poland, the winter (ok, I am not, It is way to cold), polish people. Waiting for christmas, new year's and then...a new something :)
Take care all of you.
For those who managed to spend some time in Iran with me and for those reading that pile of bollocks - a big thanks.
Photos to be added soon.
Take care...

Hajer przodowy jako sie widzi....

2007-11-19T16:55:00.000+01:00

Hi there you surface rats :)

Now this picture is for all of those doubting that I work in a mine. I do :) and i took this photo last friday, after I spent a shift underground. Oh, by the way. I did not get dirty somewhere on the surface. I honestly worked underground. With two of the mechanics. Nothing complicated of course, but still :) I like this job :)

'sup bro'? The hands that heal..

All is cool. Work is crazy. I'll be in Poland soon. So all of you out therem get ready for the boy is going to be BACK IN TOWN!!!And we'll rock it! :)

take care!!!

Luv ya...

Employee of the month...

2007-11-06T17:53:00.000+01:00

Ah fock it. Why be modest. Employee of the year, the best employee ever :)

This is what I got from the Mine Construction Manager today. He is leaving on holiday and coming back on the 25th. On the 25th I will probably in Poland so he gave it today.

Is it really about me? :)
Though he made a slight mistake writing that I've been in Iran since March. Hm.. Maybe it was about someone else? :)

Take care you all.Soon I'll post a photo reportage :) from an Iranian wedding I went to a week ago.

P.S.
Yesterday we were all wondering if Mama Kaczynska had spanked Lech for signing Jarek's resignation :)

Ch,Ch,Ch,Changes...

2007-10-31T16:47:00.000+01:00

Salam aleykom. Haste naboshid. Two news today. You choose which is bad and which is good :)

1st)So I had my hair cut. I have to explain myself. My friend was the hairdresser. And, well...One can see he is not a pro... :)
This is the shortest hair I have ever had,i think...And it was a challenge. To have short hair with the head being so big (though full of brains) :) Of course it has all been recorded for the sake of humanity (don't do this at home). Anyway, it's almost a week since I did it and they are starting to grow back.
Oh, by the way. I am really getting bold :) But than again, bold men are supposedly great lovers :p
So now. Ladies and gentlemen. Get ready for the de-hairing of Lukasz Wlodarczyk. Hope the Samson syndrone does not get me :)

I really had a tough day at work. Really!

It's the flash of the camera. Had to close my eyes. By the way. Wouldn't I make a great punk?

Prisoner no. 45632Lw. Sentence-6 months in Iran. :)
See I am blushing. New haircut, big ears, had to blush :) And the stain on me t-shirt is not a stain. It's water...

So this is how I look now. I guess now I can be mourning. The second news is that I am staying in Iran till the 25th of November. The mine, the maingate to be more exact, was flooded on Monday. Really flooded. I think the geologist missed a lake when taking measurements. and whoops. there it was.loads of water coming from the sdidewall. all the motors flooded, electricians trying to save sensitive equipment. Face Rescue Operation is on. a great example of one of Murphy's laws. "if anything can get worse, it is sure to fuck up".and it did :) but it could have been worse. the face could've been totally fucked.but it isn't.anyway.two additional weeks is not that bad. i'll manage.

One of the mottos. Though the real version should be:"Food+rest=end of shift"

The mosque in Tabas.

Same mosque.Good, old me. Trying to spoil every picture. :)

Inside the mosque. A tomb of Imam Kazeem. We shouldn't be taking pictures in there.

My artistic soul made me take that picture :)

Enough :) khoda hafez. peace out.

I'm leaving on a jet plane....

2007-10-26T17:22:00.000+02:00

....don't want to come back here again....

So, I have a plane ticket to Poland booked for the 11th of November.
What can I say. I am happy. I want to go back. Spend some time in Poland.
This country is depressing. Of course one can get used to everything. Come on, in some countries people it french fries with mayo.. :) but it is too much. We're in a sort of a cage or a fish tank. But then again, if a fish is in a nice room then it is happier. And here?It's totally different.
Everything forbidden, small town, same people all the time...
This job has taught me a lot. A great experience that I hope will flourish in the future. Maybe...
On the 12th I am supposed to be in Poland. To be honest I anticipate that something will still change but for the time being that's the end date. I started counting days. It's not good, because time goes by slower when you do that. But what can you do :) I am happy I'm going back.
These two months after my holiday really passed quickly. Really, really quickly. Hope the two weeks left will pass as quickly...
People are going crazy. Loads of different documents to translate, quality control sheets, method statements. And guess who has to translate them :)
And as always, when something ends and there's lots to do people have a tendency to loose their temper. But I am calm as never :) Ok, I'm not... :)
Today is a big day. I am going to have my hair cut. I guess i'll look like a total dumbo :) Never had hair so short. I'll try and post some photos of the whole procedure :)
Take care.See you soon.

P.S.
Happy birthday Aga and an overdue happy birthday to Ruda. You're both fantastic. Keep it that way...

Xerxes's Revenge...

2007-10-10T18:19:00.000+02:00

And so he finally got me. The cunning bastard. Was after me all the time. Louring me, teasing, offering great fruits. And got me eventually....
For the last two days I was a zombie. Temperature. Chivers. Visitng the toilet every 30 minutes. Nightmare. I got two days of work.Watched some movies (I must tell you. I did not know "Star Wars III:Revenge of the Sith" was such a pile of bollocks, how could they have ruined such a great movie...).
Anyway. Today I was back at work. Still the belly is hurting but it's ok.
But the bad thing is. Three of my roommates must have been also infected. I guess House no. 9 should be Quarantined, or at least drop an A-bomb here :)
I feel sorry for them. Though I was the one to take the first attack of the monsterous disease and had the most serious symptoms. Am I a good bloke, or what?
Today I woke up and thought someone was giving birth to an alien. Rember the movie?When the little chap got out through the abdomen?Well I thought this was happening at my house. It occured to be Adam, trying to fight the disease. Over the toilet seat. Poor chap...But he's ok now.
Today was also payday. Better than I expected I guess...So mood is quite ok.
Abnd of course on Saturday Lech beat Legia 1-0.Woohoo.....KOLEJORZ!!
Take care all of you.. I'm working on new pictures. Must admit I made one really nice.Could made a postcard :)
love ya all..

Birthday - the Iranian way :)

2007-09-21T18:06:00.000+02:00

So. Yesterday was my birthday. I am 27, going on 30 :) oh my god :)

20/09/2007 was the day I was waiting for. Me birthday. and the party :) Normally in Poland or anywhere else (my previous 3 birthdays were in England and one in Denmark) we would go to a pub or a party place. But this is Iran. And only men :)

But anyway. We managed to arrange a little something ;) and at my place we had a sitting party. Well, some of us tried to play table tennis :)

It was ok. I got 3 kabanosy :) and a Gornik Zabrze key holder :) I'll post the pictures tomorrow or somewhere in the near future (today's picture is a GIF so the quality is very poor, sorry).

But then again, I want birthdays in Poland :)

Today we went to Esmerghan. Since it's Ramazan there were no persians, the whole place for us. A really cool to day today. And my suntan is getting bette. I am turning into a latino lover, though a bit bold :)

one small leap for a man, one giant leap for mankind!

Tomorrow back to work. Brrrr....

I start wondering what awaits for me after this contract ends. i have to think everything over. I guess i want to be back home. Get a job there, maybe start something own?who knows...

27, it's the point of life when most important things should be settled. Important thing for me is to understand that :) i still have problems with it. enough of moaning.
take care...cheerio...khoda hafez

Boys are back in town....

2007-09-18T18:39:00.000+02:00

Hey there. So long till I last wrote. Over a month. But a lot has happened.

Me, in Poland - what a dummy :)

So. My holiday. Very eventful to say at least :) Though spent in Poznan, but it was good to see my family and friends. And polish beer. and polish women, who are really beautiful!!!

First I flied to Tehran. Being out of Tabas was a big relief. After all the hassle with getting the visa. Tehran is a different world from Tabas. European one could say. Almost pornographic - women have most of their hair uncovered!!! OH MY GOD!!CALL THE POLICE!!!OUTRAGEOUS!!BLESPHAMY!!!Prices are also european. But we had a good meal,shower, short sleep and off to the airport. Bear in mind my state - i still did not have a passport when I was in the cab to the airport!!

There were three of us - me, Mining Manager and Senior Electrical Enginner. The last two superb people. The first one is a bit of a tosser but still likeable :)

So. We arrived at the airport and I had to wait for the passport. I waited and waited and waited. Finally the guy came, with my passport, work permit and exit visa. Can you believe that one visit in Iran and 6 pages of your passport are gone. Entry visa, exit visa, visa extension, work permit, resident visa and normal visa :)

Anyway. We were finally on the plane to Frankfurt. As soon as it took off, I called for the flight attendant (not the gorgeous one from my flight to Iran) and said:

-Guten abend. Ich moechte vodka trinken. Drei monaten in Iran. Verstehen sie? :)

I guess she understood because very soon i was sipping nice, vodka and coke on rocks. Hmm. Not long after she visited me again. Marika, that was her name, now brought me jack daniels :) Lufthansa, Ich liebe dich!!! :)

You all can anticipate how it all ended. I had a very good and joyful flight. In Frankfurt I had to wait 4 hours for my plane to Poznan. So we went to have a beer. Dorota, the bartender, happened to be from Poland, and we were witnesses of a miracle - one beer changed into four!Wohoo!

Poznan, my dear Poznan. I somehow managed to pass the passport control (explaining that I have just arrived from Iran :) ).And went home. Cool to seem y family. Really missed them.

That evening I went out for the first time. Was back home at four. Next day out again. Home at seven. My brother was a bit pissed off when I went to his room at 7 in the morning and said:

"Will you assemble these chairs?"

I still dont know what chairs I was after :)

You have to remember it was friday, day of Walker's wedding and I still did not have my best man speech!So I had a three hours sleep and prepared the speech :) Somehow.
5 o'clock the wedding started. I was best man, one of the best days of my life.really. I was honoured. Pretty nervous too :)
And then the party! Nice please, by the lake. friends and many unknown people :)
I was the most stressed person on the whole planet!REally, tried to put off the moment of the speech. But then, the young couple had their first dance, so I though "If Piotrek can dance, I can make a speech" :)

And did it. And guess what?Everybody loved it.OR at least said they did :) I think it was ok. But the nerves were killing me :) Anyway. The party was cool. Eventually I got a bit dazzled ;)

Thasnks Mira and Piotr for giving me the oportunity. I was overwhelmed to be your best man. You're the best...

The following day I went out again. A re-party at the new husband's house and then off elsewhere. Was home at 10 am. But trust. I am too old for this kind of things :) Went to sleep at 8pm and woke up at 12 the next morning (i think :) ).

And then time run out so quickly. As did the money on my account :) But it do not regret going. I needed that, really!
But going back to Iran was horrible.Nice that Dorota was working when we were in Frankfurt, she new what to get us :)
Flight to Tehran - 5 hours of bad mood, directly propotional to the amount of whiskeys I had :)
Then guesthouse in Tehran. And then Tabas. Welcome back to hell :) no, it's not that bad.

And then, out of nowhere. I found out that my superior has quit and I was to take over his duties. But then he changed his mind. Generally i am not sad as a result :) Too many duties I think. We agreed that when he comes back from holiday, he'd take the Administrative Department and I would take over the Translations Department. Maybe... :)
But now I have to take care of that shit. Guess I am doing ok, but time will show :)
Work is ok. The Site Manager has changed. Underground has changed.
U/G is cool. The face (coal seam) is operating now. I went there four times. Really cool experience to see the Power Loader (shearer) cutting the coal. Noise, dust everywhere. Miner have a really hard work. When I come back to the surface I look like the miners in tv. All black :) Once, underground, the senior mining engineer from ym company mistook me for an iranian :)

I stood a few meters from him, my face all black, and he said:
-Mr, belt ok? (meaning belt conveyor on which people can ride)
-No Mr. Belt haile bat (no, very bad belt conveyor) - I said.
-No belt Mr?Kurwa mac - he replied
and then he noticed that I was me :)

The whole project is getting to its final stage - the warranty tests. So it's a big of a crazy town. PApers, document, protocols - all to be translated. So a bit of work to do, but there are days of total laziness.
Tabas, has not changed. All is the same. Though morning are quite chilly now. But during the day it is still the same. Hot as f**k :)
Last friday i was at work, believe me or not but I was installing isolation valves on the pressure pipe range :) physical worker :)

The mosque in Tabas, from a long way away :)

Andrew (safety manager) and someone...

My new friend, Ali... :)

Trupek and me - just chillin'

UFOK WAS HERE.. :)

Everything is the same. We went to Esmerghan two weeks ago and Khor three weeks ago.
Khor, a dam, lake, place to swim. Esmerghan, osais and place to swim. cool places to chill.
Time to go. I'll try to write more often. But you now, managerial positions are time consuming :)

Take care all of you...

p.s.
Ramazan started. Work ended! :)

p.s.s.
Pictures!! Woohoo.

Voodoo people

2007-08-05T18:49:00.000+02:00

Salam, haste naboshid...
Yes, we all look like voodoo people :) the last week has been a total frenzy. The commissioning of the face is approaching so everyone worked their asses off to meet the deadline. Especially that we've been told that a big shot from Teheran is coming, this is a political case and we'll get shot if we fail*

But i think it is going to be ready and the first Mechanized Longwall in Iran is going to run. But remember one thing, to start operating is not a problem, the problem is to maintain it...

Oh, onme more thing. I think I am going on holiday on Tuesday!!!
WOOHOOOOO!!!Finally. Though I am supposed to get my passport in Teheran, before flying out of Iran, I also still don't have a plane ticket to Europe, but I'vve been told that I have a Tabas-Teheran flight on Tuesday. Which is the best news in weeks. And I must admit i am really happy. Though the thought of coming back here is not ery nice :) It's like with parachuting. YOu do it the first time 'cause you're looking for new experience but when you know how it is, you shit your pants before the second jump :)
But enough of moaning :) I am glad i'll see my town and friends and that ui will make it to Walker's wedding and be the best man. I am Really looking forward to it.
Ok.take care.and cross your fingers for my flight and all.
cheerio

Happy Birthday sweet 16...27 :)

2007-07-26T18:18:00.000+02:00

Happy Birthday JJ. All the best and so on. I wish everyone had friends like you...

Ok. So here I am. I have just learnt that maybe, with a 90% probability, inshallah, and so on, I might be able to fly out on 5/08. I sincerely hope so. I have to gety out of here :) no, it ain't that bad. But it's getting worse Mordad (somewhere between July and August) is supposed to be the hottest month here and Tabas is THE place NOT to be in the SUMMER!!But fock it.If all goes ok, it's only 7 working days for me left before I go.
Mining news? We have almost finished the installation. Now comes the small jobs. This is where the hardest part starts. Maybe this is why I have been sent underground. From Saturday onwards I'll be in the Resistance :) It's so boring underground. 19% of oxygen, feel sleepy all the time. But what can I do, nothing!
Take care, cross your fingers for my visa...and maybe see you (at least some of you) in the near future...or a further one :)

No men exist on surface...

2007-07-08T18:33:00.000+02:00

Sob bekheyr...

You may wonder what the topic's about. Well, this is what Adam has been told by one of the Iranian miners.Someone wanted to call the haulage operator to check if any trasnport was going down the T/G and if he was safe to go out. But the chap told him that "no men exits on the surface".
"bloody hell" - he thought. "Is this the third world war?Have the Yanks invaded?Dropped an A-bomb?"
What the bloke wanted to say, is that there was noone to answer the phone :)
Yes, these people sometimes say funny things.
But the next one belongs to our compatriote, the operator of the pump station. He was training a group of young and eager IRanians to become pump station operators and they were all taking pipes from one place to another. and MArian (the polish specialist) was saying to them "Lula gende". They were all laughing and he thought it was because he was speaking good farsi.no,no,Mr Marian. "Lula" does indeed mean "pipe" but gende does not mean "give me"."gende" is the second part of the MotherF word :) so he was saying "pass me the focking pipe" :)
Of the other things. Our favorite tv show is english teaching. And so, everyday at 9 p.m. we sit and watch and repeat "thirteen or thirty, fourteen or fourty" and so on :) Don't really know what to think about it. it hink we are going slightly bananas... :)
My eyes are red. For over a week now.Fardo I am going to an eye doctor. Hope he/she helps me 'cause it is getting anoying. I jsut hope it is not anything bad. And my eyes will still be beautiful as they were :)
I cannot wait till my holiday. It is supposed to start on the 3rd of August. I hope it does. Really,sometimes this country can be depressing. I make stupid mistakes at work and the next day I am over the moon. In a good mood.
As for my farsi speaking skills they are...mediocre :) I know a few words, can buy the basic stuff in a shop but I had hoped for more. Well I still have some time here to pick up on my skills and hopefully I will.
ok.gotta go.take care all of you,if anyone keeps reading this load of bollocks :)
cheerio
khoda hafez

50 days and 50 nights

2007-06-26T18:24:00.000+02:00

So, long time no write. But did anyone really miss me anyway? :)
I had an opening line, witty, funny and great but i forgot it, so no funny opening today :)
Not very uch has happened since i last wrote. so that's it for today.bye

:)

We had a company trip to Yazd last thursday (panj shambe). Yazd is really nice, though a 40-people trip takes all the effect away. I flt like on a school trip :) but fock it...
Yazd old town isreally great. With it's winding lanes and wind towers (sound like an extract from Lonely Planet). Cool place, just like the medinas Morocco...
found a comfortable couch, there was a pool inside the teahouse.really completely different to what we had seen so far. good to know that Iran is not only Tabas and Parvadeh mine...
oh, still no photos...sorry
work?it's ok.nice to be THE BIG BOSS :) for the last 2.5 weeks I ahve been the Deputy Translations Coordinator and Administrative someone :) i can know officially yell at people and tell them to take a piss :) but don't do that.when i grow up i want to be a CEO :)
things are lookign good.the vocabulary is almost in my head, though I still take canopies for bases. the only worrying thing is that i don;t know when i am gonna go to Poland.supposedly my holiday starts on the 3rd of August but there is a chance that I will not have the work permit by then which means i will bea ble to leave the country but not come back,at least till I get a work permit in Poland,what might take some time (wow,a 3.5 line sentence,almost like polish manuals)...but we'll see. as our boss says::"what can i do?" :)
tomorrow is 50 days in Iran for me...bloody hell,lana ti...i am sometimes fed up with this...and then I like it the next day.it's the "third month syndrome" :) but then again i think i've had enough. I guess i did not appreciate my life enough...now i can see how much i can do.i am not saying this is wrong here.no,people might be happy.but i cant see meself living here.i guess i am getting to a point,a decisive point.i'll either go bananas or accept the fact i am stuck here for the next 5 months :) by the way. my company apparently has signed contracts in India and Indonesia..cool places to go next :) or maybe an oil rig?
did i tell you there was a spider, the size of a human hand, 20 metres from my office. lucky I was not there :) bozorg spider,mister,bozorg...gure pedar mr spider...
it's getting haile garb...45-50 degrees and summer is not here yet.wonderful,bloody wonderful.
beam me up to Poland, Scotty....please...
take care, all of you...
P.S.
those who are expecting gifts. I have not bought anything yet. Tabas offers nothing I cannot buy in Poland, Yazd was closed...tough luck :)

Itsy, bitsy spider...Big, black, bastards

2007-05-28T18:02:00.000+02:00

Long time, no write I could say. And that is completelly right. I just did not have the time/the will/strength :) to write. But I hope to make up for it.
First of all Happy Birthday Matt.Don't really know the exact date but I know it was last week (I also know that saying happy birthday a week after the birthday itself, is a bit weird :) ).
Anyway. Anything you wish for!And thousands of miles for you to walk,fly,swim,drive, just travel...and one more thing.30 is just the beginning...
The friday before last I hoped to see something different than the camp or the Parvadeh mine.But my hopes were shattered. I had two reports to write,lots of technical documentation to look through and spent the day in my room. It was too hot to be outside.So another friday at home.
But then came one of most terrifying weeks in my life. I saw three spiders!!!!!!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
One of them on the road. And it was quite ok.we stared at eachother for some time and then went our ways. But then....Out of nowhere...A spider was in my bed!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!Imagine that.
I was going to lay meself in bed, i lifted the pillow and then he/she was. Big as a dragon, hairy as a mammoth (thanks to Zosia for the comparison :P) and ferocious as you can be. He was looking at me, eyes burning with fire, deep breaths, showed his big fangs and was ready to attack. But no, i did not fall for his pathetic games,i did not back out. I stayed there looking back at him. We stood like that for about 30 seconds I jumped to grab a newspaper to fight the bastard, but it just went somewhere. The result - since then I have been sleeping on the other bed in my room :)
And then a spider in my office. Big bastard as well. I though he was dead. Even wanted to make friends with him, gave him two flies but he rejected them. And the day after he was gone. The result - since then I have been checking my office carefully for spiders :)
But finally this Friday I made it out of the camp. With two mates from my room (one of them speaking farsi) and we headed for the Arg e Tabas. (the fortress of Tabas). In the city centre. a 600-year-old fortress made out of clay and its derivatives :) It's destroyed now but still nice. I now think I should've been an army commander in those days. I would have ordered 5 fire brigades to attack the fortress, flush it with water and win the war :) ah,dreams...
Then we went to Koriti (or something like that). Quite a big city, destroyed by an earthquake 150 years ago. It really was quite impressive. we were then chased by a herd of goats, but i bet they came in peace :) Then we went to the city. And decided to play it the hard way and have some Iranian ice cream :) (i've had Moroccon ice cream before and was ok). Strange they were, but nice quite. The force with me be.Listen to Yoda I had... :)
Then towards the mosque (I forgot the name). The pictures you can see in the first post. Though we did not enter it,yet...We ate a chicken kebab and guess what???Iranian food can be tasty!!Finally, the rumours were right. Though it was only just one incident I now assume than Iranian food is edible :) and hope to experience more of it.And that was the end of my free day. quite eventful, i know look like a boiled cancer :) burn can the sun, know i now...
On sunday we had an influx of new polish personnel. and i am responsible for them now.only 10 people experienced miners and such an inexperienced person is telling them what and why and when :) but they're ok.and i am preparing to replace the Administrative Manager when he goes on holiday in 3 weeks time...who's gonna be the daddy then? :)
oh, and of course.i almost forgot to write.
I went underground.for 4 hours!
250 meters underground.was ok.but now i am a miner :)!!!!
4th of December is my day!!i can officially get pissed :)
and one more thing.a big influx of new persian personnel...my god...our only hope is that they aren ot going to kill themselves.really.they are nice people but .....I say we but mean the mining managers.anyway.according to Persian supervisors they are ready to go underground and work.yeah,sure...one of them got hit by a hammer that was being used by his friend...so imagine what can happen when they work with 350Bar pressure...
but we are hopeful and maybe they're going to be alright.maybe...inshallah they say :)
I know I promised pictures.but it still was impossible.maybe i'll post some next time.
4th and 5th of June are supposed to be free and if they are i hope to go to Yazd.supposedly nice and impressive.hope it will be possible.
ok.motashakeram for reading and khoda hafez friends.till next time...
p.s.
Tabas can be nice. Especially in the evening, at dawn. It is surrounded by mountains and when the sun is setting it really looks nice :) Though maybe i'll have enough of it in 3 months time :)
p.s.s.
I have officially been given holidays from the 3rd of August till the 17th.it is subject to change but hopefully i'll be in Poland then.that is of course if i get a work permit and taking under consideration the 'fardo/pas fardo' way of how Iranians perform their duties, it may be not so sure :)
p.s.s.s.
.ok,over and out

"...Take me to the magic of the moment on a glory night..."

2007-05-15T18:31:00.000+02:00

Yes. Some of you might have guessed...The lyrics come from a song by SCORPIONS. And speaking of scorpions. We were chasing two of them. Noone invited them to our bathroom in the mine officess.And they came uninvited so we had to have them out. One of them died but the other one escaped. They were huge, with big pointy teeth :) Oh wait, that was some other monster. But these bastards were big and did not look friendly at all. But now I would like to say sorry to Mr.Scorpion we killed. I hope you went to scorpion heaven.I know you did!!
But to be honest this started a "scorpion psychosis". Everyone's checking their beds before going to sleep, their shoes. I know it might be stupid but it is wise :) Oh, and a few days ago one of the iranian workers killed a viper...nice one..
Everything's ok apart from that. I moved to a four bedroom house today. Was living alone but now it's going to be four of us. We'll see...
Work's ok. I am still finding out that i don't know many of the words. But it's ok.People understand. But the temperature is killing me.One of the thermometer measured 58Celsius yesterday. Ok.you may say it was in the sun but there's no bloody shade here :)
Hope the A/C is going to be working ok in my new house. Otherwise i am going to melt...
If not that, than the scorpions are going to eat me.or maybe the vipers, or the vultures or i'm gonna melt :)
no,it's ok.really.a week has passed since I arrived in Teheran.Only a week,bearing in mind that I have over 20 left :)
I am planning to go to Yazd in June.it's supposed to be a really nice place.it's "only" 400km.one day should be enough. the Tabas taxi drivers are said to cover this distance in 3 hours :) should be interesting...anyway,I hope to get a camera by then and finally post some pictures.
take care,all of you.
p.s.
the food.I've heard so many positive things about iranian food.but maybe Tabas is not Iranian :) or it may be for the fact that the cooks are male representatives of this society.anyway,it's only kebabcici or chicken :) and of course yoghurt...and the rice, which was supposed to be the best is only boiled.and nothign else...too bad...
cheerio

Free Friday, nothing to do...

2007-05-12T19:20:00.000+02:00

So I had a free day. And to be honest nothing happened...
I woke up at 7, the breakfast at 8. and then wen back to sleep :) then I went to the city to send some e-mails, but guess what?The shops were closed because the shopkeepers have a siesta.good to know that. Well, after all Tabas is not London, you can go round all the shops within an hour. I still have the public park (supposedly to be vey nice) and the big mosque to see. But that's next Friday. That is of course if I make it till next Friday. The temperatures are really killing me, I am lucky it's not humid.
Unfortunatelly I do not have a camera, but maybe i'll sort one out.we'll see.
Work's ok. Today I was officially nominated an Assistant to the Administrative Manager...
basically it means I am a bloody secretary :) I have to make daily and weekly reports of the progress, keep everything in order,and so on. I also interpret every daily briefing and translate everything else possible :)
The vocabulary is still killing me but it's ok. I've got 5 weeks to catch up. Then the Manager is leaving and guess who's gonna be the daddy???Yes,you are right---->me :)
On our way back from work today we had a flat tire. Who would have thought I'd catch a tyre in the middle of bloody nowhere. And there we were. Standing in bloody 45 celcius for 20 minutes :)
ok.i gotta go.i'll keep you in touch...cheerio.sorry for not being funny today :)

Dzizasz, dzizasz, ale jestem podjarany...

2007-05-10T18:38:00.000+02:00

Witojcie wiaruchna. Oh, it was supposed to be in english. So it is going to be.
First of all thanks for the comments. I am alive and quite well.
But first things first.
The trip:

So I took a 2 am train to Katowice. Received my own private helmet, overall, trousers and boots :) I even have the name of the company on the back. A hell of a miner I am...
Then I was driven in a new Honda Accord to the airport (after all I am the man!!!). There was some sort of a party because they were opening a new connection to Turin. So I had a free glass of champagne, though i don't think I was really entitled to have it. The flight to Frankfurt, then a few hours at the airport. In Frankfurt I must admit I went to McDonalds to have the sandwich with bacon in it. Last one for 3 months at least...
The flight to Teheran was nothing out of the ordinary as well, apart maybe for a gorgeous flight attendant (a she, mind you :p)...Of course there I had my last alcohol for months.
I arrived in Teheran at 1 in the morning. Then we waited for an hour to be let into Iran. Finally made it...I changed one hundrer Euros and got 1,265,000 rials!That is quite a big pile of money. At the exit I was greeted by a man holding a piece of paper saying "Mr. Kukasz Wkodarczyk", a common mistake. Though nothing will beat the time when I was in Turkey and my name "LUKASZ WLODARCZYK" was spelled "TUKAJ UZODARCZYJ" on a I.D. I got. Anyway...
-Salam.
-Salem aleykum.
-I'm mr wlodarczyk
-salam.how your family.
-thank you.good.and yours?
-yes.we go hotel.
-that's good.i need a bath and desperately need a sleep.
-yes.we go hotel.
:)
but trust me.He made Teheran, a big building site, look like the eigth wonder of the world.He was really excited telling me: This,ministry defence,this, ministry economy....
A really nice first impression.A second one to be honest.On the airport I helped an older lady placing her two big bags on a trolley. Then her son (I expect so) came, she told him that, and he almost had hugged me :) Thanking me in all possible ways.Very nice people I thought.
Anyway.Teheran is really big (like Stambul). But a big building site. Maybe it makes a better impression during the day and in the old part of the city.but i did not have the chance to see that.
So I was taken to a guest house. I was told I would pay the next day. The guesthouse occured to belong to the company our company is working for. So the standard was very good. Fresh fruit in the fridge. But all I wanted was a bath and a good sleep. So I woke up at 10. Had some more fruit and a taxi took me to the airport. They still said I would pay later. But eventually I did not pay at all...Two taxis through the city, one night in a hotel-priceless :)...quite a good deal...
Oh.On the way to the hotel the driver would stop playing his favorite music and put on...guess what???"Nothing Else Matters" by METALLICA!!! :) he was really happy with the fact that he could play 'my music'.
The domestic airport.
I was picked up by some from the company. A very nice man (Mr. Lukas, here, newspaper for you, orange juice for you...).
We went through three x-ray check, and two metal detecting gates and there I was, sitting in an old russian Ilusin on my way to Tabas. I even got a free cookie on a two hour flight!!And a soda.Woohoo!!
Then I saw it. The desert. Well not actually a desert with dunes and stuff. Just flat land, with occasional salt lakes. We landed in the middle of it :)
Went out of the plane.boom.a wave of hot air. (Mr.Lukas, nice weather,eyy?it's spring,not hot!!)...
Ok.Another taxi took me to my place of residence for the next 7 months.
It's a gated compound. With small houses (4 or 1 bedroom). But full of flowers and it even has fountains but they are not working ('cause when they were all kinds of lizard and snakes would come near it). But the whole place makes a nice impression.
I was given a single room with a bathroom and a kitchen!!But I was told that later this week I would be moved to a 4 bedroom house.
Anyway, I thought I had been taken to a wrong camp. I did not see any Polish people. But then finally they came.
"Z kaj jestes?" :) i wszystko bylo jasne.
All in all there's 27 of us here. But more are coming. Nice chaps they seem to be. Most of them really experienced miners. MAking a really nice impression.
There are also 3 englishmen,1 scotsman, an austrian and some italians. But the Russians are coming. It's going to be fun :)
Tabas is...well, it just is :) an oasis in the desert. Really I expected more of a shithole. And it really is nice. The mosque, the public park (though I only had the chance to see them from the bus). Quite nice.Tomorrow's a free day, I'll take a tour and maybe post some pictures (though I have to borrow a camera :/).
Work.
Well. I have to get up at 5.jesus,jesus...5.30 - breakfast. and guess what.a big selection of...a pita bread (with stones,yes,stones!! in it :) though occasional and I guess not on put there on purpose), carrott jam and yoghurt. I think this is their national dish :) Yoghurt or rather some kind of kefir, served cold. really cooling but having it three times a day may not be the best idea.
and then at 6 we take a minibus to work. 85km. Pierunsko daleko. but at least one can sleep on the bus. Yesterday we had to wait for 10 minutes for a flock (or however you call a group) of camels did not really want to get off the road :) The mining site is quite big. First, there's an entrance gate. Then the office when we sign our timesheets and then finally the workshop and our offices.
We start work at 7.30. at 13.30 there's an hour long lunch break (guess what makes the starter?yes,yoghurt!!) and we finish at 16.30. we're home around 6pm it can be quite a long day.but no, i am not moaning :)
Work.Well, we lack everything. The translators (there's 5 of us) have a lot of manuals to translate and we only have 3 computers. Bt we are supposed to get 3 laptops (though 'inshallah', so i dont expect them soon).At 7:45 there's a daily meeting summing up the previous day. The parties meet and talk the problems over. and believe me,there are problems. and jesus,jesus, I was an interpreter on the second day of my work. but i guess it was ok. though having to know what a canopy sprag plate, pulley block, chock (mechanized powered roof support) or scraper conveyor is, may be quite hard and it still is. I've got to learn a lot of such expressions.
No, I still haven't been underground. Though I have to wear my beautiful orange helmet at times when I am in the workshop. The reason for not going underground is that I still haven't undergone safety training. I was to have one on Monday but the safety man said "Oh,Mr.Lukas,you are only one. No problem training for three, but only one is too few. Come back when there are more of you") and I will have the training in two weeks time. And then I'll probably enter one of the shaft and become a miner :)
Work is ok. people are quite cool. helpful, the Iranians nice .Anyway. I am really looking forward to the stay in Iran. Tomorrow I hope to see a bit more of Tabas. Nothing more really 'cause the closest city is 400km away :) I am hoping to learn new things and gain new experience and most of all experience a bit of Iran. Really. Can't say anything more about the people and the country. but i guess more reflections will come.
Be in touch soon...Take care...Inshallah...

No way back...

2007-04-27T13:36:00.000+02:00

Witam wszystkich... :)
Wylatuję do Iranu 7.05. Cos musze zrobic z mieszkaniem, musze sie ubezpieczyc, kupic jakies rzeczy, Lonely Planet o Iranie...Oczywiscie wszystko zostawilem na ostatnia chwile i jak przyszlo co do czego to sie okazalo, ze hola hola panie Ufoku, ale jest pan nieprzygotowany :) I prawdopodobnie bede lecial sam!!Juz to widze.Katowice->Frankfurt->Teheran->Tabas. Jak ja sie gdzies po drodze nie zgubie to bedzie to cud :) ale nie kraczmy :)
Co wiem o Tabas?
Ano wlasciwie nic. Tyle, ze jest to miasteczko na pustyni :) W ktoryms tam roku 1970-cos miasto nawiedzilo trzesienie ziemi. Dosc powazne bo zginelo 25 tys. ludzi...Ale teraz trzesienia nie bedzie.
Nic to. Wiem, pierwszy wpis i od razu nudy :) Bedzie lepiej mam nadzieje. Kiedys i zdjecia sie pojawia. A tymczasem trzymajta kciuki wiaruchna...Musi byc dobrze...

p.s.wyciag z Wikipedii:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabas
kurde, czemu Tabas nie jest znane z pysznego jedzenia, albo pieknych widokow?

English version: Everyone repeat "bye,bye Lucas"...
Since I've been receiving complaints from irriated englishmen (just one to be exact, but a real pain ....,trust me :) ) I've decided to run the blog in english...Wybacz Piotrek.Najwyzej popros kogos by Ci przetlumaczyl :p
I'll leave the first post, but from now on the post are going to be in english...
Cheerio...

p.s.The above pictures were taken in Tabas (thanks to Aga for them). So it seems Tabas can be quite picturesque...