A part of my daily way to school

In this post I would like to share my every day life in Slovakia. 

Every day I get up before 6 o'clock and get ready for school, eat breakfast etc. After that I go out of the appartment at 6.20 at the latest and I walk to the trainstation which is a bit less than 2 km away. At 6.40 the train leaves from Rajec which is also its first station. After a 40 minutes trainride, I leave the train in a station which is in Zilina. Then I walk about 15-20 minutes to school, and school starts at 8. 

At the end of the street is the appartment where i live. (grey and white) It is a very small appartment with only one bedroom and a small bathroom, but this very normal in Slovakia. A lot of people live in quite small appartments or houses which are outside of town. 

Electricity is transmitted trough cabels which are on poles and not in the ground. 

A special way to store the wood for the oven to heat during winter. 

Every house has its garden where are planted a lot of different plants and vegetables. We often have potatoes and eggs from the grandparents which live in the village near by. 

This house is typical for the communist period with its flat roof and very rectangular shape. There are still a few houses in that kind, the communism has left its marks a bit every where. An other example is that it is quite rare to find somebody who speaks English. Most people speak Russian as they were told in Communism and this language is still being thought in almost every school. 

This is the local primary school. 

I hope this gave you a little impression of Slovakia and these are all my own photos I have taken in Rajec.

Slovakia

Facts about Slovakia

• Surface: 49.034 km²
• inhabitants: 5.415.949
• currency: Euro
• language: Slovak
• capital: Bratislava

flag of Slovakia

coat of arms

Map of Slovakia with its neighbours: Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Austria and the Czech republic

I'm now on an exchange for 3 month in Slovakia. I live in Rajec, which is a little town of around 6.000 inhabitants.

The coat of arms of Rajec

Rajec is also near a thermal source and that's why there is Rajec water all around Slovakia.

map of Slovakia, the darker part is the region zilinský kraj, the point in that part is the location of Zilina

I got to school in the bigger town near by, in Zilina. It is more an industrial town, but i think there are nice builings with a lot of flair. In this town, there are more than 81.000 inhabitants.

the coat of arms of Zilina

(pictures from Wikipedia)