My boyfriend left this morning. He's still in the train. It takes 11 hours, so he'll be home in 4ish hours. He's already in Germany, though.
At the train station I cried so much I was scared I would throw up. I know it's only until Feburary and we have visits planned. The first one in 16 days. It's not so bad. We've done it before. But it's hard. Who am I telling this anyway?!

Apart from going back to LDR things are going good. My classes are interesting. Most importantly I feel like I can actually learn something. Which wasn't really the case back home. We mostly just chitchatted and then I had stupid exams about things that we did once for about 10min in class. I definitely feel good about the classes. I'm having my schedule signed by my coordinator tomorrow and then I'm going to sort out getting them accepted at my home university with my prof. I hope he won't make problems.

I have a Polish class with only Ukrainian girls now. Well, no, there's also two guys from the Czech Republic and I think one girl's from Belarus. I'm the only West-European there, though. It's funny and mildly exotic.

In other news: I'm going to start taking driving lessons (well theoretic classes for a start) soon. Either this weekend or at the latest next month. I'm going through the whole registration process only for that. And man...
See: Both Germany and Poland are EU countries. I'm a German citizen, my boyfriend's Polish. When he moved to Germany earlier this year, we went to the citizens office, he showed his lease and ID and said how long he intends to stay. The lady asked him if he was studying. It took all of 10mins including the wait. He got a neat welcome package with coupons for the pool, maps, important phone numbers etc.
Now, I want to do the same thing in Poland and it looks like this:
I filled out a form, that asked about my parents first, last and maiden (?) names, my height, colour of eyes, etc. It also had to be co-signed by the owner of the flat where I want to be registered (my boyfriend's mum as it happens) and we had to bring a copy and original of some paper that states that she is really the owner of that flat. With that form I went to the citizen office for the part of the city where I live. It turned out that in fact I didn't need that form just then, but for the paper that I needed, they didn't have a form and I had to just give my information. I did that and got "Confirmation of Registration for the time up to three months". With that paper I had to go to the Province office Department of Foreigners. Now I'm lucky and live in the capital of the province (and the whole country), but if I didn't I still had to go there. They have an extra office for EU citizens, which thanfully doesn't have long queues but very friendly officials working there. I had to show them the paper and another 5(!) pages long form about my adress, again parents' first, last and maiden names, eye colour, height, reason for staying and what felt like a million other questions and three copies of it. I also had to attach an confirmation from the university that I'm a student there (apparently a Student ID is not enough), three copies of my passport and health insurance proof.
I did all that, which took ages because I had to cross out things from the form and sign the changes in all the 4 versions. When we were almost finished that super friendly official (that complimented me on my Polish spelling!) was like "It might happen that a policeman visits you at home." and in my juvenile carelessness I go "Yea, that's cool. I already did a registration 5 years ago, when I lived in x-city and we had one visit us."
"WAIT! You've been registered in Poland before?" "Uh, yes. I guess." "Do you still have the documents?" "It was five years ago. I've moved 5 times since then. I've thrown them away a long, long time ago. Actually I think I never went back to pick them up." "Then you've just filled out all the wrong forms."

If you've been registered once, the registration doesn't lose its validity. You just have to update the information. All my careful words went to the shredder!
I can pick up my residence card on November 5th. To make things more fun, I have to take that card back to the district office to extend my registration.
The whole process takes like a month and a half. Just to remind you: in Germany it literally took no longer than 10 minutes AND they give out neat, little welcome packages.

But what wouldn't I do to get my driver's license for <500€ instead of ~2000€.

Enough boring tales of Polish bureaucracy for today.

Living with my boyfriend's parents has been ok so far. I'm planning to meet up with a lot of friends this week and find a gym. Getting busy is probably the best thing I can do.
I'll also be the one to call my boyfriend now. It used to be the other way round, because whoever is in Poland has free calls (because of a funny and lucky history, that I might tell another time).