The day started with a Mediterranean style breakfast followed by an intense Polish lesson from Magda, she is keen and a lover of languages and especially grammar. I am getting used to my throat and tongue producing unusual sounding combinations, I know it will be difficult, but I will persevere. Me and Michał also got very nerdy about loud and heavy music and already made plans to see plenty of ear blasting music in the coming months. I am also keen to meeting the people from the Punk and Hardcore scene of Łódź, those who I have spoken to already have been enthusiastic and honest.
We ventured into town and to the Cinematography museum, which was a real treat and a place I can see visiting more often during my time here. I also feel the more I am here the more knowledgable about film and photography, Łódź has such a rich history and vibrancy in this area. Pleas
ing to know that in the coming week I can see The Cabinet of Dr.Calligari, The Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis and more, for the equivalent of 2.50. The museum building was owned by a rich landowner and industrialist by the name of Karol Scheibler, his rooms were available to see and were pure decoration, skillfully carved and designed. But for me, the real highlight was the children's film section. So many walls filled with glass cabients with puppets from children's TV shows past and present, many of which are still very popular today. It seems like the styles of Oliver Postgate never stopped and became smoother, more ellaborate 
and still mainted the warmness and playfulness that the Postgate cartoons had. Particular favourite was Worek, meaning 'sack' in Polish, the animation consisting of Worek living in a dungeon, growing teeth and eating; clocks, candles, umbrellas and anything in sight. Surreal and pleasing! See photos attached.
We later went to Bedon, a small village outside of Łódź and visited the Zebra bar, one of the small pubs/clubs in Bedon. Again, met more lovely people! I was also opened up to the wonderful world of Disco Polo, which to my ears was very cheesy, 4x4, poppy House type stuff, with some folk melodies regrettably, not my kind of thing. More info here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_polo
We stayed at Michał's parents and I've been treated so well again, the food has been fantastic too, I tried a traditional Polish soup, Barszcz, which was unlike the traditional version and Veganated.
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