So in Poland they have a beer called "Zubr" except the Z has a dot over it. It is pronounced zh( as in garage) oobr. This means ...wait for it... BISON. It is green and has a picture of a bison on it.
Yesterday we had an "ognisko" which is like a bonfire picnic thing! it was superfun. The girl, Ola, whose mom is the headmaster of the school we are staying at right now just turned 18 last week so it was partly in celebration of us, and partly in celebration of her birthday. At the ognisko first we ate lots of salads and stuff. Then this guy had this big bucket of meat that he kept cooking on the grill and bringing over to us. First there were these black sausages that had meat and some kind of barley type thing in them. They were weird. Then there was seasoned pork neck, which was very fatty but very good. After that we were all full and they brought out a giant birthday cake, like wedding cake sized, for Ola. There were giant sparklers on it and it was awesome. After all that eating it was time to roast sausages in the fire. kielbasa, yo. I was one of the only girls that roasted a sausage in the fire. It was really fun, but i didnt really like my sausage, which is not allowed so i hid it and then threw it away. They also buried potatoes and apples in the fire, and the potatoes were AMAZING!!! They were small and buttery and roasted tasting and delicious. Also hot. we played hot potato with real hot potatoes. We also taught the Polish kids how to make smores.
Later some of the girls were talking to the Polish kids about rap and they were rapping, and i was like "oh I must join in" so i went over and did the first verse of GoldDigger and then Ola informed me that I had depressed the Polish kids. Depressed them, because they could not understand the words. It was so sad. My rapping depressed polish teenagers.
Thats really all there is to tell about the ognisko.
Today I smell bad right now. That is because today was a long day.
This morning we met the mayor of Makow and it was fun. We had tea with him and he was very nice and friendly and told us "You will teach the Polish youth English, and we will teach you how to eat." After that we went to Warsaw aka Warszawa (Varshava) to meet the American ambassador. He was not particularly friendly and was from Tennessee. He didnt know anything about the program even though he has met 2 other groups in the past. We were very disappointed in him. He gave a speech that was kind of interesting but also focused a lot on how the US was super awesome because woodrow wilson included a free and independent Poland as point 13 of his 14 points, even though he ahd never left America. Apparently, according to one of the other kids here (the ambassador didnt mention this part), Woodrow Wilson had a Polish Pianist friend and thats why he was so gung-ho Polish rights.
We walked a little in Warsaw, but that wasnt particularly fun because my shoes hurt a lot because i had dressed to impressed the ambassador. I have lots blisters now. We then had another million hour ride back. Then dinner. Then 15 of us had to present 10 minute lesson plans. Which took forever and now I am very tired.
This may be my last blog entry for a while because tomorrow we are going to Krakow (pronounced Krakov). We will be there til sunday when we leave to go to our host families. I do not know if we will have internet where we are staying, so it may be a while before I am able to relate my adventures to y'all again. I may even be a teacher by that point, omg.
So, as you may have predicted, I would like emails especially from those of you who have not yet felt motivated enough by your love of me to email me. Those of you who have emailed, you are wonderful people and you can attest to the promptness of my replies.
In addition, to those of you who asked, the Polish boys are definitely more attractive than the russians. I would say that there are about an equal percentage of attractive Polish boys as of american boys, possibly higher, but Stephanie (if you are reading this) they all seem to have light hair. I have not seen a single dark haired Polish boy. so good luck with that.
2 comments:
It seems like all of your posts are about food! That's so Kaitlin, though. But it's good to know you're eating good food, because that's one of my fears about going to a strange country; I would be scared I would get sick from eating something weird or I might not like anything so I would starve to death. Bison beer, huh? That sounds delicious.
Tell Mimi I will email her back as soon as possible! I miss you!
Just letting you know that I highly enjoy reading your blog and that I am impressed at your sporting accomplishments, though I admit that mention of you and sports always reminds me of that time in middle school when you cut your head open on the greenhouse window in gym class when we were walkinig to the lake to run; also, this is a very long sentence. yeah those slavs are big on making the young people eat a lot.
Susanna
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