Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Summer

35c today as summer continues and our activity was focused on food shopping but only for the next two days. Naturally it was rather quick with so little to buy and we're still getting used to the Carrefour store. We had to make a little exchange of money from zloty's to Czech money for our trip but it's in the same shopping area so it was also fast.

Everybody is going someplace now. Spain, France, Germany, Czech Republic, to the seaside, to the mountains, all of these are destinations. Many school students go to special week or two week long camps for tennis, sports, painting or just relaxation. It's summer vacation time.

Since we're leaving Friday morning I was able to move our Polish lessons to tomorrow so we wouldn't miss them. I've been working on using the expression "used to" like....I used to shop at Real and now I shop at Carrefour. It's a small thing I know but in Polish it's more like "It was my custom to shop..........." .  In English it's only used in the past form but in Polish you can use it both in the past and present but of course not in the future.

35c dzi艣 lato trwa i nasza dzia艂alno艣膰 skupia艂a si臋 na zakupy 偶ywno艣ci, ale tylko przez najbli偶sze dwa dni. Oczywi艣cie to raczej szybko z tak ma艂o kupi膰, a my wci膮偶 przyzwyczai膰 do sklepu Carrefour. Musieli艣my si臋 troch臋 wymian臋 pieni臋dzy od z艂otego do Czech pieni臋dzy dla naszej podr贸偶y, ale to w tej samej dzielnicy handlowej tak by艂o r贸wnie偶 szybkie. 

Ka偶dy b臋dzie gdzie艣 teraz. Hiszpania, Francja, Niemcy, Czechy, nad morze, w g贸ry, to wszystko jest miejsc. Wielu uczni贸w i艣膰 do specjalnego tygodnia lub dw贸ch tygodniowych oboz贸w dla tenisa, sport贸w, malarstwa lub po prostu relaksu. Nadszed艂 czas wakacji.

Poniewa偶 jedziemy w pi膮tek rano uda艂o mi si臋 przenie艣膰 nasze polskie lekcje na jutro, wi臋c nie b臋dzie za nimi t臋skni膰. Pracuj臋 na u偶yciu wyra偶enie "stosowane do" jak .... Kiedy艣 zakupy w Real i teraz zakupy w Carrefour. To ma艂a rzecz, wiem, ale w polskich to nic wi臋cej jak "To by艂 m贸j zwyczaj sklep ..........." . W j臋zyku angielskim jest on u偶ywany tylko w ubieg艂ym formie, ale w j臋zyku polskim mo偶na go u偶ywa膰 zar贸wno w przesz艂o艣ci i tera藕niejszo艣ci, ale oczywi艣cie nie w przysz艂o艣ci.