Whew...a day without stress!!! I successfully ran the dishwasher, microwave and my new phone! Of more importance I let myself in and out of the apartment three times today without incident! Finally, I'm a big girl!
Unfortunatley, we were not able to get the English-speaking satellite hooked up last night; however, Pavel was able to hook us into a satellite connection so we have more than four Polish channels to watch. We now have 900 channels to chose from - and I'm pretty sure 750 of them are adult content. Now I can watch TV in Polish, German, Arabic and Dutch. We also get British news and the international version of CNN. The box required for English channels (even HBO and CineMax) should be delivered tomorrow! I'm getting used to the radio but will need to find something a bit more contemporary here soon. The day they play YMCA will definitely signal time to surf the channels a bit!
Couple of observations:
As I walked to Rynek Square today I realized I was essentially walking on original stone roads! The streets are quite narrow and uneven - guess walking with heels made me realize how uneven the streets really are! The main thoroughfares have been updated; however, there are many roads in their original state. Cars are parked every which way. If they can squeeze a car in they will. We live near the equivalent of a "Park and Ride". Every day it is interesting to see how many cars are parked on the road between the apartment and the main road. Curbs, double parked, sideways - it makes no difference! To feel like we fit in I had Craig park on a sidewalk the other day. How cool was that??
I picked up my Polish book again today. Face-to-face lessons will be starting for me again soon. To understand the difficulty following are some of the challenges of the language:
- Panstwo: Means Mr. and Mrs. OR Country. Go figure!!
- Proze: Means Please (Ok both words have "thingies" above or under a letter but my keyboard is not Polish). Proze also means, "Can I help you" (to which I answered Proze right back yesterday - I was expecting dziekuje. Can you say dumb American). Today I realized Proze also means "your welcome". By adding "Po" in front of "Proze" it means "I would like something".
- Every adjective can be conjugated six different ways based on a multitude of scenarios. For instance Kawa (coffee) becomes Kavy if it is in a cup (filizanka). Something as easy as the color "red" can have many different variations depending upon the whether or not the noun it is describing is masuline, feminine or neutral (czervony, czervona, czervone) or it becomes czervoniego if you want a glass (kielishek) of red wine (wino - becomes wina because the glass (kielishek) is a masculine noun. Oh...and remember "w" is pronounced "v". Get the picture??
My final note for today...how the heck to you convert Celsius to Fahrenheit? I don't know if I'm hot or cold - and what to set the oven to!!!
Will post pictures as soon as my computer arrives from Warsaw along with the rest of my belongings from home. One last hurdle before we can really get settled. That and finding IKEA!!!
FYI: They still sell toilet paper with colors and prints here. I'll tell you about plastic and sandwich bags at another time!
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