A horror book

I was going to visit my parents. I planned to go in the evening. When I got home after classes, I checked the schedule and I discovered that there's a train one hour earlier than I thought. I was feeling bad and I wanted to stay in bed. That's why I packed very fast and run to the station before I decide not to go anywhere. I got to the station, bought the ticket and I still had about 15-20 minutes. I went to a bookstore because I forgot to take anything to read during the trip, the trip takes 1 hour and a half so I would have died. I decided spontaneously to buy a book of a Polish writer. I didn't expect much. But when I started reading I was positively surprised. The book was very good and I read it in about 5 hours. I just couldn't stop reading.

This book was Domofon of Zygmunt Miłoszewski. It tells us the story about life of people in a tower block in Warsaw. One day, a young couple moves in. In the moment when they want to carry their furniture up to the apartment, the police stops them because someone died – his head was cut by a moving elevator when he wanted to get out of it. Strange and horrible situations multiply. In the culminate moment occupants can't get out of the building or contact with the world. Some dark power keeps them inside and doesn't let them out.

I recommend the book very much. If you like horrors, you will love it!

Getting old and blind...

I planned the longer weekend of 11th November long time ago. I thought it would be a nice idea to go home for longer than just two days, especially that it's not so cheap (I live in Cottbus in Germany). My sister wanted to go with me because she studies German philology and she was interested in the film festival that was taking place there.

Two days before we went, we got to know about strikes in Germany from Wednesday to Monaday. So, of course, there were no direct trains between Frankfurt (Oder) and Cottbus and we had to go through Berlin. The trains were going only once an hour. So when the train was approaching Frankfurt, I was standing by the door to be ready to run and buy the tickets that we didn't have. The next train was leaving in 7 minutes. I bought the tickets without any problems and all happy run to my sister who was going to the platform with our luggage. We met there a girl and she didn't have the ticket so I proposed her to go with us (we had a group one – for max. 5 persons). We started talking and were waiting for the train. Then we heard a noise behind our backs. We turned around and we saw our train leaving... Could you ever believe that!? The train was so short, was standing on the other sector of the platform and we didn't notice it. We all coded that the train should be annouced first and arrive.

So we waited for one hour.

And we spent some more hours in the train talking like best friends so it was a very positive experience. Every cloud has a silver lining.