We visited his family and cemetaries on Thursday, which was ok, although we spent too much time at the family's place. It was booooring and we were just waiting to go back home but his dad and uncle wanted to finish the 2nd bottle of vodka that day. Welcome to Poland!
We got home and went to a the oldest cemetary in his city. It was super pretty and romantic with all the lights.
On Friday we went to this helium balloon thing. My boyfriend was sort of scared, but I insisted we go. It wasn't scary at all and the view was really pretty*. After that we went for -what are supposededly- the best fries in the city and then we bought him shoes, went home, ordered pizza and then I fell asleep
On Saturday his friend had invited us to a party at his place. I reeeaaallly didn't want to go, because it was our last night and this guy lives in the effing middle of nowhere (ok, maybe not, but it takes a freaking 1,5h by bus-subway-bus to get there, so that's bad enough) and I just didn't feel like travelling 3 hours to be at a boring party for only a little longer than that.
My boyfriend's mum was generous enough to give us a ride (there and then back!), which was super nice and in the end it was pretty boring but not as bad as I had thought. But Jeeeze... everyone was pretty much falling asleep at some point. If it had been a normal party in a normal place or in a pub somewhere, everyone could have just gone home when they felt they were about to fall asleep. NOT there, one of our friends kept falling asleep on the couch
WHY did this guy think it was a good idea to have a party at his house?! Today we slept in, visited my boyfriend's grandparents super quickly (like literally we downed our teas and left) and then we were off the the station... and that's how our visit ended.
I waited outside the bus for about 45 minutes until they finally left. I didn't want to go, but it was cold and it was just dragging the good-bye making it even harder.
In short the first visit after we went long distance again, was beautiful and bittersweet.
It's only 18 our next visit! Two weeks on Thursday! This time I'm visiting him. My prof is having a conference, so I'll probably be busy with work for at least part of the time
But I feel super guilty for working as little as I do (while still getting paid for more hours), so I can't be there.I checked out tickets earlier today and for a weekend in December it'd be only about 140€ for him to visit me. I'm considering buying him the tickets so we can have one more visit before Christmas, but I guess I should talk to him first and that won't happen until he gets home, which won't be until noon tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow:
I'm (hopefully!) going to pick up my residence card tomorrow!
I've finished theory lessons for my license and should start practical lessons now. I had one instructor call me, but he didn't actually have any appointments before December, so I called the school and told them to assign me someone else who'd have time before that. Waiting for that call now. I specifically signed up with a big school, even though it was a bit more expensive, in the hope that their instructors would be more flexible with appointments. I already don't want to do that shit anymore and I haven't even started. That's probably not a good sign.
One last thing -the one that inspired the title-:
We might be able to close the distance a tiny bit earlier than we thought. His language exam might be on Feb 9th (instead of 19-ish as he thought before). So I could fly over that very day, stay for a week to get some things done and then we could go back to Poland together. That would mean we'd close the distance in 98 days from now. So close!
*Funny fact:
His friends thought he had taken me there to propose and they were sort of disappointed when we told them that it was actually my idea and there was no ring or question involved
But damn gurl, 98 days sounds good.