Mostly Food, again

So, if you had told me before I left that I would consider a breakfast of hardboiled eggs, peas, and mayonnaise a good breakfast, I probably would have laughed. But that is what we had for breakfast today, and it was pretty good. You like put the egg through this wire thing that cuts it in little squares, then you add peas, then you miz it with mayonnaise. So I guess, like eggsalad with peas in it. for breakfast. Well, I liked it. It broke up the monotony of eating sandwiches for breakfast and supper everyday well.

Additionally. For Lunch/Dinner today we had potato pancakes! OHMY GOODNESS! I love latkes. soooo much. I ate so many, it was only me and my host mom because my host sisters (who have returned home, more on that later) went out to get pizza with their friends. I think that they are tired of having me around. I heard what I guessed was a long conversation of my host mom forcing them to invite me out to pizza, but i did not want to go. They had tried to slip out of the house while my host mom was driving Julie home and i went along for the ride, because i wanted to see the outside of Julie's house. But they were leaving right as we got back and were forced to invite me. But I got to eat potato pancakes, instead of pizza, which is awesome. and also I am watching a movie I borrowed from Reid so I am in general pretty happy right now.

In Poland, when people get married, the next day they have a giant party that is like "The Wedding Reception: Part Dwa" where all the guests who live in town come to another party to eat the leftovers and their is music and dancing and stuff. Yesterday, I went to this with my host parents for the wedding taht was on saturday. It was really fun! I had a good time, even though I could basically talk to my host mom and then the girl I was sitting next to had been placed beside me because she knew some english too. It was funny because the family gathering felt very familiar and seemed to have the same kind of feelings and sounds and stuff as like a gathering of our family, the only difference being that I didnt know these people and they werent speaking English. There was lots of food. First there was soup, then chicken and potatoes and really good coleslaw (i like coleslaw a lot more than i thought i did, which is probably good because they eat so much of it here, cabbage is good for you right?) and then there was cake. Apparently all the femal relatives make different cakes so I had to try 2 of them, but they werent like american cake so I liked them ok. Especially this one that was like pure melty chocolate for an inch of the top. There was also wedding cake but I didnt try that because. cake. So basically at that point i figured dinner was over, because we had gone through the whole dinner thing and reached dessert, right? But no, they kept bringing out more meat. This included chicken stuffed with pork, pork stuffed with pickles and radishes, something that looked a lot like a deep fried ham sandwich, and then this giant (like the size of my half a cow brisket) piece of meat (most likely pig) that had been baked inside an even bigger loaf of bread. I turned down everything except the last kind of meat, which i had to try because it was a regional dish. I am always required to try the regional dishes.

Anyway, after all the eating, we are just sitting and talking, the girl next to me, who is 27 and has a broken leg from a motorcycle accident is telling me how all the older people are talkign about how she needs to get married and thats all they ever talk about but she is still young and doesnt want to. Then my host parents are like, we have to go pick up eva and Karolina from the bus back from camping. So we went and picked them up and then bruoght them back to the party, they had to change in the bathroom and like deoderize and stuff. They did not enjoy the party, i believe we only brought them so that they would get fed. So after my host sisters were done eating, we watched people dance for about 10 minutes which was very fun and then we left.

When we got back (at like 6pm) almost everyone fell asleep. Because my host parents ahd been at the wedding til 4 am the night before (and my host dad was up before 10 in the morning) and Eva and Karolina were tired out from scout camp. But it was funny just because everyone crashed all around the house. I worked on my lesson plans and got 2 done and then watched some Office on my computer and read a little. It was a pretty fun day. Also Eva and Karolina insisted yesterday that they were too tired to even try to speak english. I think they are happy that i am leaving in a week. I am not. I will miss my host parents a lot, they are really awesome. If oudn out that my next host family is not the family I thought iw ould be staying with. Not that i knew anythign about that family either, but I am scared. My host family didnt know anything about my next host family either, except their name, which was Polish and said to fast for me to catch.

Oh, one more funny story. So I think one of the boys that went ot scout camp had a crush on me. He was like 16ish I would guess and had a funny haircut where the the sides of his head were shaved but the top was not, like a really wide mohawk. Anyway, I didnt take any notice of him for all of camp, except that he seemed to like the weird canned meat spread at mealtimes. When I was leaving though, I was shaking everyone who was arounds hand and he came up and hugged me. I thought he was just trying to make his friends laugh or something, ebcause he hugged me again when I was like walking away. Then when we went to the bus to pick up Ewa and Karolina, he smiled and waved, and none of the other kids did, even the ones I had talked to while I was there. And he was staring at me the whole time as I stood their awkwardly while my host parents helped the girls with their big backpacks. Then when he was leaving he came up and shook my hand. My host mom called him my "lover boy". It was so awkward.

Also, I have not ehard much from you people lately. I know a whole weekend has happened since i got emails from most of you and fun and exciting things tend to happen on weekends. or you know, just anything, like sitting at your computer, learning to count cards for vegas. or listening to Protomen. or studying MCATs. or being in London. or something. Anyway, the point of this is email me, yo. Peace Out.