Sunday

Last night we stayed in and watched Mean Girls. Verno hadn't seen it and she didn't really feel like going out. So now I'm getting used to the time difference. We were going out partying and I was wide awake cause of the time difference made it like Happy Hour rather than 4 in the morning which is what it was here. Today I woke up about 7 am here.

I finished Catcher in the Rye. It's really an odd book. The whole time I was thinking "I don't know why this is an American classic." It's written like something I would write. There are so many digressions. It was so simply written that it was confusing. That's what made it great. I felt the confusion that the main character was feeling. It was making me depressed. But I had to finish it. So I did. Again it was like I wrote it. It didn't seem resolved at all. But there was an unusual sense of hope. It's one I want to read again to see if I can make sense of it, but I don't want to feel the way it made me feel again.

Today Verno and I went to her parents' house for lunch/dinner. It was very good. I'm liking Polish food. Like their beer, it has no preservatives. Everything is freshly prepared. Even juices that are bottled don't have preservatives. It's not as sweet as our juice. I like it so much more. There are so many different kinds of sausages, and it's a breakfast meat. There bread isn't sliced. I know. That's the only down side. And the milk. I haven't had a glass of milk since I got here but have had a lot of water.

Today was odpust. Odpust is Pentacost. There was a market of sorts with all kinds of toys and candies and jewelry. Cheap too!!! And Firecrackers. Not the showing colorful kind. The noise making kind. Black Cats were the most popular but there were these ones that sounded like a cannon was being fired. It was loud and scared me every time.

I think that's all for now. Damian just showed up so I gotta go.
Muah