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When you’re a student, you probably don’t have
your own car. This means that in order to get home for Christmas, you have to
find an alternative way of commuting to your hometown. For me it’s especially
hard because I live almost four hundred kilometers away and there are only two
direct ways of going home: one of them is a tiny bus in which you feel as a
cucumber in a jar for seven hours (never again) and the other is a bla bla car
(it’s expensive and you won’t know the time of leaving after the very last hour
so I don’t do it). So... what are the other options? As the majority of Polish
students, I chose to go by train. Of course, it’s not the most comfortable
option in the world, but the cheapest in Poland. It normally takes me about
four hours (due to the modernization of tracks) to get to Warsaw, where I wait
about one hour and then get in the direct train to my hometown. If I’m lucky,
it reaches the destination in an hour and a half. If I’m not, it takes two
hours and a half, so the whole journey is about seven, eight hours. I still
prefer to go by train than to be jammed in the tiny bus. Sometimes Polish State
Railways even makes sure I’m not bored during my trip by selling more tickets
than they should for a specific ride, which means a lot of people go in the
same train, so I’m wondering if this Christmas I will also be forced to be at a
standstill in a corridor because I won’t be able to get to my seat which I paid
for in advance.
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