First month!

OK, we've been here one month now and I think we are doing well. We've found a flat, learned how to get around Poznań on public transportation, established a bank account, got medical coverage, furnished our flat about 90%, made two new friends, signed up for Polish lessons, visited cousins outside of Poznań, so I think it is all good.

Thirty days of a new life, new language, new culture and a change from everything we have known and doing good. I look at the old pictures of my grandfather and grandmother and wonder what they would say to me now that I have made this change in my life to move to Poland. Or my own mother, knowing I have moved to the birthplace of her parents, what would she say? So many thoughts come into my mind each day about what we have done. Is it good? Is it bad? Why did we do this? How could we do this? All I can say to that is that it is something I felt I should do and so I did it. The support of my wife Joan has made it all so easy to do. She has not "polish connection" and yet it was an easy decision for her and I will be always grateful to her for that. She may have given up more than me to make this move, with grandchildren in America, but she seems as happy as I that we did this. We have always been adventurous spirits, her and I, and so our life continues in that way. No dishwasher, no clothes dryer and yet she continues to tell me we have made a good decision and our life will be good in Poland. How can I not agree with her?