Blogs from Poland, Europe - page 186

Mon langue travaille dans pas que ma pay d'origin. C'est casse-pieds. Je ne suis pas deçu. C'est normal. Mais c'est une surprise pour moi, que l'anglais n'est pas suffisant. J'ai visité Tunisie dans cette avril et j'etait choqué parcque j'ai ne su pas qu'il y a beaucoup de monde qui parlent pas anglais rien! J'ai trouvé la situation bizzare car quelques ont parlé couramment allemand. C'est pourquoi j'écrir francais. C'est ne pas facile. A vrai dire souvant je peux écrire seul quelque chose que je sais comment l'écrire. Par exemple pendant ces vacances dans France j'ai commencé chaque conversation par la même façon. Il a été comme dans le livre - tu es obligé de révéler ta nationalité et la place tu habites. Comment m'exprimer? J'espére que ce blog me remontera. ... read more

Here, found on the internet is the poem that most closely reflects how I felt after Birkinau Could Have by Wislawa Szymborska; translated by Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare It could have happened. It had to happen. It happened earlier. Later. Nearer. Farther off. It happened, but not to you. You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last. Alone. With others. On the right. The left. Because it was raining. Because of the shade. Because the day was sunny. You were in luck - there was a forest. You were in luck - there were no trees. You were in luck - a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake, A jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant . . . So you're here? Still dizzy from another ... read more

Europe is so great for travelling. My host dad took me today to Poland for a day trip. The trip was about an hour and a half by train and cost about 10 € per ticket. It was pretty fascinating. I decided to only bring my disposable camera so the only pictures I have won't be seen on here. You'll just have to ask for them when I get back. It was a pretty fascinating trip. We met, on the train, a very interesting girl about my age from poland. She was studying PoliSci and Baltic Languages at a University in Berlin, but was from Poland. She had taught herself nearly perfect German just by watching tv from Germany. She spoke about 7 other languages, though unfortunately, only a tiny bit of English. I could not ... read more

A note from Eva: Oh to be married to a man who spells Bremen, Bremman! All four of the famous town musicians in an uproar! What's a little German girl to do? He already said that he's an American, I guess I knew that before... Also, a slight emendation to the Jewish-Freud story. It's a complicated set of feelings for me. This lady was an 85 year old bundle of Berlin energy, a real ray of sunshine. She arrived out of breath, with bags, trumpeting her arrival, her understanding that Alan was sitting in her seat, her delight that she could sit in the shade, not in her seat and proceeded (as people seem to do) to tell me the story of her life. Her marriage, very young, to a Berliner . Her move there in ... read more

W tym roku decydujemy sie na wakacje w Slowenii. Zawsze marzylam o tym, zeby pobiegac po tamtejszych gorkach. Poczatkowo planujemy Slowenie z Chorwacja, ale ze wzgledow finansowych i czasowych zostaje tylko Slowenia i full spartan ;) 15 sierpnia, Gdansk - Wroclaw - Klodzko Wyruszamy o 7. Pakuje sie auta jako druga, a juz nasze tobolki wypelniaja bagaznik po brzegi, ale wiele z tobolkow to wspolne dobro naszej 4 - namioty, zapasy jedzenia, gary. Udaje sie zapakowac wszystko, nawet kolejne 2 osoby i jedziemy na poludnie. Pierwszy dluzszy przstanek to Wroclaw. Decydujemy, ze jednak bedziemy spac w Polsce, wiec mozemy zabawic we Wroclawiu dluzej. Jemy pyszny obiadek ze znizka studencka. Biegniemy na rynek, odwiedzamy kosciolki, zwiedzamy przez szybe interesujaca galerie. Jak tu pieknie! Strasznie mi sie ten Wroclaw podoba i klimat swoj ma. Wiedze, ze wiele osob ... read more