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Published: October 19th 2008
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What's this?
Oh, not a castle? Looks like a castle to me... One of the questions in the Callan book I teach out of asks the students "Are there any castles in the town where you live?" The students ALWAYS answer no. Oh, really? I think these pictures tell a different story...
And the much anticipated pictures of my castle - I live on the 3rd floor of a 5-floor block of flats. I live right off the Rynek, behind the Diesel store. Most of the tenants in my building are university students (or old ladies with annoying dogs whose barks echo around the building at 7 am, AWESOME). My flat is a studio and has everything I need - which is what people say when they live in weirdo apartments.
My land-lady doesn't speak much English. Every time I see her she asks if I speak German and usually gives me a bucket. My apartment has been flooded 4 times in the month I've lived in it -once by me (woops) and three times in the same afternoon by my land-lady and the "plumber" (a Chris Farley look-a-like who took off his clothes to sop up some of the floodwater that he caused while "fixing" the water heater). I laid
And this?
Ha! Another Castle!
I think I will suspend my grammar lessons until my students fully understand the meaning of the word "castle" and recognize that they have some in Wroclaw. in bed while they frantically cleaned up.
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Kaytren Bobcat Blake
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I hope you realize that the street sign that demands that you dance with a smaller friend is going to be you and me at 3am....in a few months.