This afternoon Rachel and I went to showing of a film called Camouflage (Barwy Ochronne), a Polish one with English subtitles. A theater on Rynek Główny called Kino Pod Baranami shows Polish films for English audiences every other Tuesday. Today's film, made in the 1970s, is about two Polish academics. One of them is young and incredibly idealistic, the other middle-aged, corrupt, and cynical - the perfect conformist to the Communist system. The plot is pretty minimal and bascially just sets the scene for an intense psychological juxtaposition of the two main characters. It was a cool film that I liked partly because it wasn't nearly as dark and depressing as I think it could have been given the subject matter.

This week is super busy. Easter vacation is coming up but is only technically supposed to be from April 8-14. However, both Rachel's and Brad's parents are coming to Europe during next week and the week after and due to flight schedules and feasible travel plans, we've ended up rearranging our class schedules and getting off from April 3-14! All of professors were perfectly happy to postpone whatever classes we're missing, so the weeks after break will be chock-full of lectures and we have to get all of our assignments done by the end of this week instead of the middle of next. Anyway. I had already planned to be in Venice from April 9-13 for my birthday and now there's the possibility of seeing some more of Austria with Chris! I really want to do that, since most of the traveling I have been and will be able to do basically involves hopping between capital or major cities and, while all beautiful and unique, seeing just the capitals tends to get a tiny bit boring. So I'm hoping Austria works out!

The weather in Kraków is beautiful this week...sunny and almost 60 degrees today! Perfect for walking around and enjoying the buds emerging on the trees.