Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Goodbye.
At my age, the death of people with similar years is not so shocking but some sadden me more. Such is the case when I read Leon Russell had died. He wasn't a huge star like the Beatles, Clapton, Elton John and others but his style of music was unique and I always liked him. I suppose if you had to categorize his music, southern rock would be the label given.
Finally our friend from Bydgoszcz returned home from her travels so the Polish translations of this blog will be accurate again. We talked this morning via Skype on various topics and are resuming our frequent conversations to improve learning each others language.
With Joan resuming her learning of Spanish, I find it interesting that her memory can recall whole sentences in Spanish but in our 3 times a day exercises of 7 new words she can\t remember all of them. Morning, afternoon and evening, I give tell her 7 words and she has 1 minute to repeat as many as she can remember. She averages between 4 to 5 remembered, depending on the time of day.
The latest news here is that the government is exhuming all of the bodies of the Smolensk plane crash that happened 10 years ago in order to determine the exact cause of death. This was the crash in which the President, his wife and more than 90 other top officials died in when they flew there to commemorate the massacre in Katyn forest. Not all families of the victims agree with this but they have no choice. This should have been done years ago because some of the bodies in the coffins were not who they were said to be so there was already a question then.
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Wznawiaj膮c z Joan nauk臋 hiszpa艅skiego, uwa偶am za ciekawe to, 偶e jej pami臋膰 przywo艂uje ca艂e zdania w j臋zyku hiszpa艅skim, ale w naszych 3. razy dziennie wykonywanych 膰wiczeniach zapami臋tani a 7. nowych s艂贸w, nie potrafi wszystkich zapami臋ta膰. Rano, po po艂udniu i wieczorem, daj臋 jej 7 s艂贸w do powiedzenia, a ona ma 1 minut臋 na powt贸rzenie tylu, ile mo偶e zapami臋ta膰. W zale偶no艣ci od pory dnia pami臋ta 艣rednio od 4 do 5 z nich.
Najnowsz膮 wiadomo艣ci膮 jest to, 偶e rz膮d ekshumuje wszystkie cia艂a ofiar katastrofy smole艅skiej, kt贸ra wydarzy艂a si臋 10 lat temu w celu ustalenia dok艂adnej przyczyny zgonu. To by艂a katastrofa, w kt贸rej zgin膮艂 prezydent, jego 偶ona i ponad 90. innych wysokich urz臋dnik贸w , kiedy lecieli do Smole艅ska w celu upami臋tnienia masakry w Lesie Katy艅skim. Nie wszystkie rodziny ofiar na to si臋 zgadzaj膮, ale nie maj膮 wyboru. Powinno to by膰 zrobione lata temu, poniewa偶 niekt贸re z cia艂 w trumnach nie by艂y tymi, o kt贸rych si臋 m贸wi艂o, 偶e s膮, wi臋c to pytanie ju偶 wtedy pad艂o.


