Disappointed

I have to admit, I did not check my email all weekend, so when I got on the computer today I was looking forward to a mailbox full of awesome emails; however, all my emails were about penis enlargement. Then I was like, well maybe someone has commented on my blog. But no one had, so that is very sad.

Other than that, I am doing pretty well. This weekend has been rather eventful. On Friday night Ewa, her friend Pioter and I all went to the cinema to watch the U2 3D concert, which was...ok. Ewa fell asleep. They did the songs I liked/knew/didnt find boring at the beginning. I have to say that I think Bono is a little annoying. I spent the whole movie trying to form an opinion on him, having no knowledge beforehand about him other than he is really famous, the lead singer of U2, and does some humanitarian stuff. Here is what I came up with. He seemed really small, but seemed like he had so much energy trying to push his way out of his body that at times it looked like he might explode. He also seems to think he is really cool. Which makes sense because the world for the most part thinks he is really cool, but a lot of times he looked silly and like he was trying to hard, and maybe should laugh at himself a little more. However, maybe he does this and I just dont know about it. I think that the guitar player "The Edge" (i learned from the credits) seemed more actually cool.

So yes, on saturday I woke up and my host sister Karolina (Karohleena) told me to pack my bag because we were going to the Mazura lakes. So we went to their grandparents house in the Mazura lake region which is about 2 hours away. We swam in the lake, it was not warm outside. The water was really clean though. I am glad I know how to swim because after how poorly I bike rode i needed to prove that I could do something. Oh, so a really awkward moment was that my host sister assumed there would be places to change into our bathing suits near the lake. There were not. Which resulted in us trying to cover ourselves with our towels and change into and out of bathign suits. Of course in the process of doing this the only attractive Polish boys i have seen since Warsaw walk by. I would also like to change my previous statement, and say that while Warsaw did seem to have a good number of attractive boys, the rest of the country seems to be lacking. All the really hot Polish girls that Reid is always hitting on seem to be paired up with really unattractive boys. Also, they seem to be into the Speedo's here.

The grandparents house seems to be set up so that it can be family vacation headquarters and can sit and sleep about an infinite number of people. There are a million chairs and sofas and they all fold out into beds. Each of the three upstairs bedrooms can sleep between 3 and 7. There is a futon on the balcony. There is a tent in the yard. They have a million towels and toothbrushes and toys for kids. While we were their, my host moms sister Ewa was there with her 4 year old daughter Paula. Paula was afraid of me. Oh! Also, you know how some people claim animals hate me (cough hannah cough). Today my host family was talking about how much the dog is going to miss me when I am gone.

One other thing I wanted to talk about was the lack of the concept of "ruining your dinner" here. I first noticed this when everyday after school Ewa and I stopped to get ice cream (sometimes twice!) even though we were headed home to eat dinner (they eat dinner meal around 1 or 2 ish). Then while we were at Mazura we were leaving the lake and headed home to have an ognisko,but the Aunt Ewa was like, I really want some french fries. So we all went and got fries and then went home and had an ognisko. I just find this really funny because in america there is so much "dont eat dessert before dinner" and "dont have a snack now, we are eating soon" that it is funny how much that concept does not exist at all here.

So this week, i think I am going to the Scout camp Jamboree on tues/wed. and then coming home and teaching thurs/fri. Then going to Warsaw with my host mom on the weekend. I think. See they wanted me to go to scout camp through sunday, but 1. i did not want to live outside that long and 2. the whole reason i am in poland is you know to be a teacher at the school here, and if i am at scout camp i am not doing that and will feel guilty. So i think that is the arrangement that was decided upon, but i am never really 100% sure of what is going on here. Going with the flow has become very essential to my life.

Oh! also, so i hadnt seen my host mom since wednesday night, and I was very confused as to where she was, but I know on wednesday she had been sick, so i thought maybe she had just been asleep and staying in her room or something. Then when we went to the lakes she didnt come. Then they kept talking about picking her up from the bus. I later found out that my host mom had been in Berlin for the latter portion of the week, when i thought she was home sick in bed....

I have learned to eat carrots! not like the uncooked kind, but when they are cooked and mixed in with something else I have finally been able to not pick them out. Because everyone has told me that when they are in something like this, you cant taste them and they just taste like the rest of the food. But my mind always made up the carrot taste and then i would be grossed out, but since I have been here, and a little before (when I made crab soup) i have gotten really good at not imagining the carrot flavor. I think this is really good because carrots are good for me.

So that is all for now. Its very difficult to write both this and emails, because a lot of times i dont have enough information for both. But i still really like getting emails, because I miss everyone back in the states (and in other places like London, Korea, and China) a lot and getting emails makes me smile.
Have a wonderful day, and if I dont update tomorrow you will have to wait a few days because I will be in the wilderness.