First week in Warsaw

So I am finally in Warsaw! Landed at the airport at about 9.30am yesterday and my buddy picked me up. I must say that Europeans are really much bigger sized than Asians. Pretty sure that the girls are around my height and the guys are like 190cm. And cause I am quite think most of the girls look buffer than me :O

Anyway, we took a cab to the dormitory which took about 20 mins. Then I put my bags at the depository area and took a 2 stop metro from Pole Mokotowskie (that's the metro near the dorm) to Centrumm to change money. It was about 4.14 PLN to 1 EUR. Changed 1k euros there. Then we went to the post office which is like a 10 min walk from the dorm to deposit money to the dorm. 400 pln for a deposit and 5 pln for the dorm access card. I have to pay 5 mths worth of rent by the end of February, which totals at about 1.9k pln. Then I collected my bed linen, blanket and I am finally off to my room!

My room is 150, and it is on the first floor. However, there is a 0 floor, which is the ground floor, so technically I am on the 2nd floor. The room is quite small, but it looks cozy and I have no idea how they manage to fit so many shelves inside that place. The kitchen looks clean and they use gas stoves, so do remember to bring matchsticks or lighter if you do stay at the dorm. I ate cup noodles cause by the time I unpacked it was like 2pm and I was too lazy to go out to eat.

One thing that I realize is that the water here tastes very different from Singapore. After I boiled it, there are sediments in my kettle (I actually use a rice cooker to boil lol) and the water has an indescribable taste. It just tastes unnatural. So I ended up buying 10 L of spring water from the Carrefour express that is about a 5min walk from the dorm. 5L costs 2.25 PLN, so it is relatively cheap. (When you exit the dorm, just go right and walk for 5 min and you should see the Carrefour sign)

Looking for pans to buy, I traveled to another Carrefour that is an 8 min tram ride away. There are a lot of international shops there and a great selection of produce. However, I think that the fresh meat produce is kind of lacking. Would recommend Arkadia for that.

And this place doesn't sell any pans! What!! So I traveled to a Carrefour that is even further away, like 15 mins tram ride from my dorm.

Now this one is really big. Bigger than any of the supermarkets I have been to in my entire life. Spent like 50 SGD buying pans, bowls, etc. Afterwards, I headed back to my dorm, whipped up some lousy dinner and crashed into my bed. Got a Paris trip tomorrow and I need to recharge!