Day 5

Today was the day that we have finally moved to Ostrava. We got up early to have our breakfast of Polish cereal, Mleko (milk). Double checking that we had everyone's things, we were on our way to the train station.

The journey was long and hard, the road was winding and weaving and the route was complicated (we got lost). Once we had finally arrived at the train station, we had to squeeze our bags through a tight gap and then climb through to get to the platform on time to catch our train.

We launched ourselves into the train and hurriedly found our seats. Bags on racks and in footwells the 10 of us crushed in as if we were in a clown car.

Four hours later, we all peeled out of the carriage like sardines out of a can. We were finally in Ostrava and it was hotter outside of the carriage than inside of the tightly packed train. We all clambered up on to the top floor of the station to buy a ticket for our next train.

Once we had our tickets we went down to the platform to wait for our train. Trains came and went but not a single sign of our train for a while. Finally a train rolled up and we showed our tickets to the conducter but he told us that we couldn't get on because they were for the wrong train company.

We found the correct platform and a train rolled up but by the time we realised that it was the right train, the doors had closed and the train was barreling off in the opposite direction. We aborted the mission and decided to take a taxi!

Once we had located some taxis, we split into 3 groups and went in our respective taxis. A few minutes later, we had arrived at our hotel (and alot quicker than by train).

Once we had arrived at our hotel, the older girls and leaders had to fill in some forms. We then dragged ourselves and our bags up the 4 flights of stairs to the apartment. When we got to the top, we could hardly open the door at the top.

After we eventually broke into our apartment, we all took our things up to our rooms and we prepared to head out again to find the infamous astronomical puppet clock. We waited for the clock to chime 6pm so that we could see the wooden puppet show which happens every even hour.

On the way to find our dinner for the evening, we spent some time on an excercise park. After we had done our excercise for the day, we went to find food and we came across a resturant called the red lion, pizza and pasta.

We all ate our pizza and pasta, which was very nice and we headed back to our apartment. Some of the group ran up the stairs and then realised that the person with the keys was still at the bottom of the stairs because they didn't want to run. We then struggled to open the door again because it got jammed.

And here we are now writing our story and finishing this blog.