This post is somewhat food centric.

Sup homies,
So this is like 2 days in a row I am posting on here. To you know, keep my loyal readership entertained. And by that I mean, thank you Youngjoo for commenting because it makes me happy to see things from people at home and not be like the loser that everyone has forgotten about because she left the country.

Anywayz, I think my jetlag is slightly better. I was very tired this morning but then I took a nap between class this morning and lunch and resultantly I have been less tired today.

Now I am going to tell two stories from yesterday.
Last night we went to this bar/restaurant place for dinner. It was really cool. I ate sausage and hardboiled egg soup. which was surprisingly good. But the awesome thing was that in the backyard outside part there was a set of tire swings and a trampoline and see-saws. So after dinner five of us went on the trampoline and it was super awesome! We played the "break the egg" game where one person curls up in a ball on the trampoline and the other people jump around and bounce them in the air and try to uncurl them. I ended up kneeing my self in the head. Like alsmost the back of the head. which
1. I didnt think was possible
and
2. I didnt get hurt so it was ok.
I also went on the seesaws.
The second story was that during dinner there were these amazing potatoes that were a cross between french fries and potato chips in that they were thick like french fries but shaped like potato chips and still had a bit of crunch. So we were having dinner and a fly landed in the ketchup and we passed the ketchup down the table so everyone could look at the fly and it got to this guy who was like Polish government dude in charge of education and development or something and he looked at the fly, scooped it up carefully with his fork and put it on his pierogi (a lot like a dumpling) and ate it. Then he passed the ketchup back down the table, like "ok you can use it now"
Our program coordinater assured us that polish people dont usually eat flies.

Other things that have been happening is today we had recess, because they thought we were eating lunch at 1 and we thought 12 so we ended up having a break to go outsife and play. We played knockout and I made it to the final three! I think this means I must be super awesome at sports now. Or you know, the other people here are just as bad at sports. you know, harvard kids. spend too much time in the books. I mean what... Actually they 2 people that did better than me were from UNC and a grown up guy who I dont know what he does but played basketball in high school.

THey eat a lot here. They keep complaining that we dont eat enough but seriously they give us MASS QUANTITIES at every meal. Like if we ate all that, the plane couldnt carry us back. And they are sad like thinking that we dont like their cooking. For example at breakfast today there was bread, rolls, cheese, tomatoes, butter, yogurt, cereal and tea. We were supposed to eat everything. Then at lunch there was cabbage soup (all lunches are 2 courses, soup and then some type of meat, potato and salad). and then there was pork and chicken cutlets (fried meat stuffed with other meat) cauliflower with breadcrumbs and butter, mashed potatoes, pasta with fresh strawberry sauce, mashed beets, and i think that was it. Then right now we just had tea whioch was fruit and cake adn then at 6 we are eating dinner which will be more meat and potatoes and vegetables. And apparently when we go to our host families there will be a second breakfast between breakfast and lunch. I really dont understand because the people here are very skinny. But we are supposed to not only eat all these things but lots of these things. Oh well, at least mostof it tastes better than it sounds.

Im trying to think if anything else of interest has happened, but i think no. We had some teaching classes but they were relatively boring. We practiced making lesson plans. My groups involved a superawesome fashion show, but then when the teacher was having the groups present she forgot our group existed. And we were all ready to show everyone else up too, but she was like "No go have tea" then afterward when we went to use the internet, she stood there blocking the door and told us "No, go finish the cake" but we jsut kind of went upstairs and waited for something else to distract her.

The fruit and vegetables are actually better here. Like the tomatoes are really pretty and red and the peaches were juicy and delicious. Ok now that i am talkign about the quality of the produce here, i think it is really really really time to be done.

So thats all for now. I would like e-mails.

p.s. oh also they have like some sort of polish version of veggie tales that is a cartoon where there are fruits and vegetables that serve as the main characters. I dont know anymore than that because I just saw it on the TV and dont speak Polish.
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