I got back in from Wroclaw last night and I am in a new apartment here. This in is nicer than the other one, but I am still not alone. No big deal though, I have more space here than in the other place. That is to say I can actually turn around in my room! Getting back from Wroclaw was a lot less eventful than the getting there. Just 3.5 hours of pretty boring train ride. It’s pretty country I suppose, it looks a lot like Pennsylvania (if that’s even still running anymore) but I have already seen it!

I went into work today and for some reason, I had a Jennnifer Lopez song in my head. I think maybe it’s because I saw her name in some article. She helped present the New Wonders of the World stuff this weekend. Anyways, I think this is a song, and I think these are some words from said song. “I’m still Jenny from the block, I used to have a little but now I have a lot.” Yes sir, that’s been running through my head all day! Oh well. The only thing that drove it out was Final Countdown, from Rocky that I heard on the radio here at work. It seems as though good musical taste went the way of Communism in Poland. I must admit though that I am starting to like some of the Euro crap pop that is on the radios here. It’s kinda catchy, like a disease and I find it sticking in my head when I really don’t want it there. I find myself humming it to myself and then catching people looking at me.

The humming combined with my incessant talking to myself doesn’t give people to high of an opinion of me. I don’t talk to myself in that classical, you’re crazy sense, at least I don’t think so. Rather, I practice Polish with myself. If I see a guard standing at the doorway, I come up with a way to explain (with my limited vocabulary) how I haven’t done anything wrong when the alarm goes off. I then practice saying this out loud (but quietly) over and over again so that I have it right should I need it. You laugh! But at least I won’t be getting hauled off to jail for setting off alarms!

I am learning a bit more Polish. It’s coming together slowly but surely. I don’t think I’ll be here for a long enough time to make any great strides, but I can put together some sentences now and answer people when they ask me questions, all easy ones of course. But just today, someone was complaining because the door was open and it kept shutting off the air conditioning. He was complaining because he was hot and was telling someone to shut the door. I thought of the words I know and came up with the following, “You have hot flashes like an old woman!” Haha, I still think it’s fairly funny, but in light of possible misinterpretations of international humor, I decided not to say anything. He was a kind of big guy and I didn’t want to get beat up and kicked out of the country. But, had I wanted to say it, I could have!

So instead of joking with others, I thought funny things to myself. Several times I just caught myself smiling at something I had thought. This could’ve been because I was doing some cleaning today and was smelling isopropyl alcohol for most of the day, but just wait, I think I was genuinely funny. For example, someone was standing around watching other people do something, managing if you will. And I thought to myself, “The only thing he manages… Is manage to do nothing!” Haha, funny, funny. This is of course not fair to managers as they are constantly doing incredibly useful and necessary things, like managing. But what I really want to say is, self, thank you for being so funny today, you made the day really enjoyable.

Ok, that is all the scariness for today, make sure and check back for the Wrolcaw pictures as well as my reasons why US is such a bad place to travel in. I am also trying to come up with a couple of points that define USA, I’ll let you know what I come up with!

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