Marta's first impressions

My name is Marta, I come from Spain and I´m a journalist. When I arrived to Poland the first thing I noted was the weather, really cold. Actually, in Seville – where I come from - never snows, so for me Krakow´s weather in the first March days is really bad and sometimes I would like to change that.  

Paintings close to St. Florian Gate

            I will live here for three months. In Spain, as many other countries at the moment, a lot of people haven´t got any job because of the crisis, so for this reason I decided to begin a work exchange program to improve my labour situation. Spanish journalists have a lot of problems – they are losing their jobs, the situation doesn´t change and nobody can pay for them. In my case, it´s exactly the same. But I would like to live in this beautiful city for a long or short time and work here.

            Krakow... There are lots of things which for me are news, like the history, for example. I think I will more understand Polish people and their culture, when I began to go to museums or visit famous places at Kazimierz (old ghetto). Krakow is a city full of history of World War II. It´s not the same - study many historical books when you are in high school and be in a city and know by yourself. I think that to know completely some place and it's history you must move to them, visit museums, walk for their streets, talk with different people and ask them about their impressions. 


I have been living here for a month and I have met a lot Polish people, who have different ways to see life and we can change impressions, emotions. Actually, I think Polish people are open-mind to foreign people. I don´t speak Polish language, but I can say that polish people have tried to help me when I had to go to the supermarket or the pharmacy. They tried to understand me.

            Finally, one of the things which I like the most in Poland is it's... food. They have a lot of imagination and creativity to cook many plates with a potato or make different tastes of soups and pasta.

Marta