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With only 3/4 of the flat insulated and old windows, the temperature inside can only stay at 21.5c.&amp;nbsp; A little chilly, so the necessity of wearning extra sweaters and socks is necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went this afternoon to see the new Roman Polanski movie "Rzeź. It's a short comedy about two couples who are trying to resolve a problem of a fight between their two boys.&amp;nbsp; I say short because it was only one hour and twenty minutes long.&amp;nbsp; Not the funniest movie we've ever seen but entertaining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" lang="pl"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Zimny ​​dzień&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;-10c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zimy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na chwilę.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tylko 3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;/ 4&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;płaskiej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szyby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;izolowane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i stare,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;temperatura wewnątrz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zatrzymać się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;21.5c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chłodno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;konieczność&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wearning&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dodatkowe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;swetry i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skarpety&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest konieczne.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Poszliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po południu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby zobaczyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowy film&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Romana Polańskiego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rzeź&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To krótka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;komedia o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwóch parach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, które starają się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozwiązać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;problem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;walki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;między obu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chłopców.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Powiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;krótko&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, bo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;godzinę i dwadzieścia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;minut.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;najśmieszniejszy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;film&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jaki kiedykolwiek widziałem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zabawne.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="" id="gt-undo" style="display: none;"&gt;o edits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools-r"&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Listen" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-listen-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Listen" id="gt-res-listen" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Read phonetically" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-roman-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Read phonetically" id="gt-res-roman" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Rate translation" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Rate translation" id="gt-res-rate"&gt;&lt;div aria-haspopup="true" class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button" role="button" tabindex="0" title="" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-outer-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-inner-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-caption" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-flat-menu-button-img gt-rate-icon jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2304729158401308579?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2304729158401308579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2304729158401308579&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2304729158401308579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2304729158401308579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/cold_28.html' title='Cold!!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7608485291278770002</id><published>2012-01-27T09:46:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T10:28:17.067-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Renewed..</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://player.vimeo.com/video/27920977?title=0&amp;amp;%3bbyline=0&amp;amp;%3bportrait=0href"&gt;http://player.vimeo.com/video/27920977?title=0&amp;amp;%3bbyline=0&amp;amp;%3bportrait=0href&lt;/a&gt;=&lt;br /&gt;Click this link above, then click on&amp;nbsp;the flower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spent the day after our lessons trying to find an email or street address for a cousin from my father's side in the U.S.&amp;nbsp; I think I finally found it but no email address so the only way to contact him is through snail mail.&amp;nbsp; I hate snail mail.&amp;nbsp; Those pictures from my sister have renewed my interest in searching my father's side and with perserverance on the internet I found the address.&amp;nbsp; Now I will write a letter to him, hoping he's the right person, and wait to receive an answer. The waiting just kills me.&amp;nbsp; I remember the first letter I wrote to Poland in 2002 and then waited&amp;nbsp;and waited for an answer, hoping someone could read what I wrote. It finally came and thanks to that I live in Poland now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Spędzony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzień po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lekcjach&lt;/span&gt;, aby znaleźć &lt;span class="hps"&gt;e-mail lub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;adres&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kuzyna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;strony ojca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w USA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślę, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w końcu znalazłem&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;adres e-mail&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc jedynym sposobem na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skontaktowanie się z nim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poprzez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tradycyjną pocztę&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nienawidzę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poczty.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Te zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od mojej siostry&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odnowiły&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zainteresowanie poszukiwaniem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;strony ojca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;perserverance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Internecie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znalazłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;adres&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Teraz mogę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;napisać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do niego list,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mając nadzieję&lt;/span&gt;, że jest &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiednią osobą&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i czekać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na odpowiedź&lt;/span&gt;.Czeka właśnie &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mnie zabija.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pamiętam pierwszy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;list, jaki napisałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w 2002 roku&lt;/span&gt;, a następnie &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czekał i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czekał na odpowiedź&lt;/span&gt;, mając nadzieję, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ktoś może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeczytać, co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;napisałem&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To w końcu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przyszedł i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzięki&lt;/span&gt;, że żyję w &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7608485291278770002?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7608485291278770002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7608485291278770002&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7608485291278770002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7608485291278770002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/renewed.html' title='Renewed..'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-6897601190218773313</id><published>2012-01-26T03:55:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T03:57:50.411-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Protests</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="artTitle" style="padding-bottom: 15px;"&gt;From the Warsaw Voice.......................................&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artTitle" style="padding-bottom: 15px;"&gt;Thousands take to streets in protests at internet censorship&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artDate"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Protests in Kielce&lt;/div&gt;Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Polish cities Wednesday, some of them hurling stones at police, in protest&lt;br /&gt;at an international copyright treaty criticized as a clampdown on freedom of speech on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the city of Kielce around 700 people protested. Some of them threw bottles and stones at police, damaged cars and partially blocked traffic, Polish media reported. Police arrested 24 people. One police officer was taken to hospital for treatment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the largest demonstration, in Cracow, 15,000 people took to the streets in a largely peaceful protest. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demonstrators chanted "Down with censorship" while some had a piece of tape inscribed with "ACTA" glued over their lips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ACTA is the acronym for the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which Poland was to sign in Tokyo on Thursday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opponents of the treaty, which aims to protect international intellectual property rights and fight online piracy, launched a string of attacks on Polish government websites earlier this week, jamming the websites of the Polish parliament, the prime minister’s office and the Ministry of Culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tysiące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na ulice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w protestach&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cenzurę w Internecie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Protesty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Kielcach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tysiące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;demonstrantów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyszło na ulice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polskich miast&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Środa,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niektóre z nich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rzucając&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kamieniami w policjantów&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na znak protestu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;międzynarodowy traktat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;praw autorskich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;krytykowane jako&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skutkiem jest ograniczenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wolności słowa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Internecie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kielcach&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;około 700 osób&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;protestowało&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Niektóre z nich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rzucił&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;butelki i kamienie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w stronę policji&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, samochody&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;uszkodzone i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ruch&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;częściowo zablokowana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polskie media poinformowały&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Policja aresztowała&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;24 osób&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jeden&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;policjant&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;został przewieziony do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szpitala na leczenie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;W największej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;demonstracji,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ​​Krakowie,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;15.000 osób&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyszło na ulice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w proteście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w dużej mierze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pokojowego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Demonstranci&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;skandowali: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Precz z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cenzurą&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;", a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niektórzy mieli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kawałek taśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z napisem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;ACTA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przyklejone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ustach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;ACTA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skrótem od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;międzynarodowej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;walki z podrabianiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;umowy handlowej, w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;której Polska była&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do podpisania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Tokio&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w czwartek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Przeciwnicy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;traktatu, który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma na celu ochronę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;międzynarodowego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawa własności intelektualnej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i zwalczania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;internetowego piractwa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;uruchomiła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciąg&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ataków na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polskich stronach internetowych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rządu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na początku tego tygodnia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, zagłuszania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;strony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polskiego parlamentu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kancelarii premiera&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ministerstwa Kultury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-6897601190218773313?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/6897601190218773313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=6897601190218773313&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6897601190218773313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6897601190218773313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/protests.html' title='Protests'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-8425608229442896990</id><published>2012-01-25T13:48:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T13:50:33.237-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Parmesan-Herb Biscuits &amp; Surprise.</title><content type='html'>PARMESAN HERB MUFFINS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;2 cups flour  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 tablespoon sugar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 ½ teaspoons baking powder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;½ teaspoon baking soda&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;½ teaspoon sage leaves, crumbled  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;½ cup chopped fresh parsley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¾ cup grated Parmesan cheese  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 ¼ cups buttermilk*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¼ cup butter; melted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 egg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heat oven to 400 degrees F.  Grease bottom only of 12 muffin cups or line with paper baking cups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off.  In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, sage, parsley and cheese; blend well.  Add buttermilk, butter and egg; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.  Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full.  Bake at 400 degrees F. for 15 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Serve warm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*To substitute for buttermilk, use 4 teaspoons vinegar or lemon juice plus milk to make 1 ¼ cups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here it is at last, the recipe you wanted :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;A ring from the buzzer to our door started my heart racing this morning.&amp;nbsp; Could they have arrived already? I'v been waiting with anticipation since last week and didn't&amp;nbsp; think they would arrive until this Friday or next Monday.&amp;nbsp; I opened the door and there stood the postman with a package.&amp;nbsp; I signed for it, looked at the return address and my day was made.&amp;nbsp; They are here!!&amp;nbsp; The DVD's from my sister with old pictures and documents.&amp;nbsp; I tore open the package and found 3 DVD's, prayer cards, old Easter cards, obituaries and almost 100 pictures on the DVD's plus original pictures in another envelope.&amp;nbsp; I immediately went to the laptop, put in the first DVD and found pictures I had never seen before of my father, brother, sister, aunts, uncles, grandparents and much more. The documents give me a whole lot of clues to new things to search for and even answered my question if my grandfather had more than one brother.&amp;nbsp; He did and he had also immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900's.&amp;nbsp; I found his name in a search I did years ago but could never connect him to my family, now I have the proof.&amp;nbsp; How exciting!&lt;/div&gt;I've been looking at the pictures all night and don't even want to go to bed because there are SOOOOO&lt;br /&gt;many new possibilities now.&amp;nbsp; It's like Christmas all over again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" lang="pl"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pierścionek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;brzęczyk&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do naszych drzwi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zacząłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bicie serca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rano.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Czy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przybyli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;już&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;I'v&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czekali&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z niecierpliwości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od zeszłego tygodnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sądzę,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przybycia do czasu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ten piątek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;następny poniedziałek.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Otworzyłem drzwi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i stanął&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;listonosz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z pakietem.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Podpisałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, spojrzał na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;adres zwrotny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mój dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;został złożony.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Są tutaj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;DVD&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od mojej siostry&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;starych zdjęć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i dokumentów.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozerwał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;opakowanie i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znaleziono 3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;DVD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, karty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;modlitwy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, stare karty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wielkanocne,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nekrologi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i prawie 100&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęć na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;DVD&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;plus zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oryginalne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w innej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kopercie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;natychmiast udał się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do laptopa,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;umieścić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w pierwszym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;DVD&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znaleźć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nigdy wcześniej nie widziałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego ojca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, brata, siostry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciotki, wujowie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, dziadkowie i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiele więcej.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dokumenty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dają mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dużo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wskazówek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowych rzeczy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do wyszukiwania i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nawet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiedzi na moje pytanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, czy mój&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziadek miał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więcej niż jednego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;brata.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zrobił&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i miał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;również&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyemigrował do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;USA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na początku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;1900.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Znalazłem jego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nazwę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w wyszukiwarce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zrobiłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lat temu, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nigdy nie mógł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podłączyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojej rodziny,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz mam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dowód&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ekscytujące!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Szukałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;całą noc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i nawet nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chcę iść do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;łóżka, bo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;SOOOOO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiele nowych możliwości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Boże Narodzenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na nowo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="spell-place-holder" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools"&gt;&lt;div id="gt-src-tools-l"&gt;&lt;a href="" id="gt-undo" style="display: none;"&gt;Undo edits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools-r"&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Listen" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-listen-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Listen" id="gt-res-listen" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Read phonetically" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-roman-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Read phonetically" id="gt-res-roman" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Rate translation" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Rate translation" id="gt-res-rate"&gt;&lt;div aria-haspopup="true" class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button" role="button" tabindex="0" title="" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-outer-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-inner-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-caption" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-flat-menu-button-img gt-rate-icon jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-8425608229442896990?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/8425608229442896990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=8425608229442896990&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8425608229442896990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8425608229442896990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/parmesan-herb-biscuits-surprise.html' title='Parmesan-Herb Biscuits &amp; 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text-align: center;"&gt;Joan made a new meal tonight call Sausage Stew Pot. Very good!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The protests in the U.S. stopped S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A. but unfortunately the European Union, including Poland, despite the protests, will sign it's own version of the same thing.&amp;nbsp; It is called ACTA. There will be protests tomorrow all over Poland but the government says it will still sign the bill.&amp;nbsp; I think this is a huge mistake and will be a step against personal freedom of the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Protesty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w USA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przestał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Sopa i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;PIPA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale niestety&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Unii Europejskiej&lt;/span&gt;, w tym Polska, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mimo protestów&lt;/span&gt;, podpiszą &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;własną wersję&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tej samej rzeczy&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To się nazywa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ACTA.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;protestów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jutro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;całego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt;, ale rząd &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówi, że będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nadal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podpisuje ustawę&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślę, że to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wielki błąd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie krokiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeciwko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wolności osobistej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z Internetu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2888084204744009457?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2888084204744009457/comments/default' title='Post 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url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KoW9y36DElk/Tx7rlVxdd-I/AAAAAAAAelA/-Yq6ItR-AvU/s72-c/IMG_9625.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-3128763258466489468</id><published>2012-01-23T04:53:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T04:56:19.424-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Cost comparison.</title><content type='html'>I've been asked what is the difference in pirices between Poznań&amp;nbsp;and Poznań.&amp;nbsp; Here's the answer in U.S. currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Poproszono mnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jaka jest różnica&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pirices&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;między Poznaniem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i Poznaniu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oto odpowiedź&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;amerykańską walutę&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="middle"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Poznan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chicago, IL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;Difference&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Restaurants&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=0&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=0&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;5.49 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;11.61 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+111.63 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Meal for 2, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;28.34 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;46.61 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+64.48 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Combo Meal at McDonalds or Similar &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;4.61 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;6.19 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+34.22 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Domestic Beer (0.5 liter draught) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.03 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;3.54 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+74.30 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Imported Beer (0.33 liter bottle) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.20 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;5.20 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+136.54 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Cappuccino (regular) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.00 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;3.55 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+77.52 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Coke/Pepsi (0.33 liter bottle) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.22 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.60 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+31.54 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Water (0.33 liter bottle)  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.96 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.24 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+29.11 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Markets&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=1&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=1&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Milk (regular), 1 liter &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.72 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.45 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+100.22 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Loaf of Fresh White Bread (500g) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.86 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.36 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+174.78 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Eggs (12) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.89 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.98 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_light_small"&gt;+4.45 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Fresh Cheese (1kg) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;7.32 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;9.06 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+23.78 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Chicken Breasts (Boneless, Skinless), (1kg) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;4.93 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;6.07 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+22.96 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Apples (1kg) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.09 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.21 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+102.81 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Oranges (1kg) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.47 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.00 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+36.00 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Potato (1kg) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.53 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.42 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+168.78 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Lettuce (1 head) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.88 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.80 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_light_small"&gt;-9.21 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Water (1.5 liter bottle) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.60 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.00 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+232.08 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;5.57 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;11.29 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+102.68 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.93 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.75 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+87.62 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Imported Beer (0.33 liter bottle) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.47 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.90 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+97.11 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Pack of Cigarettes (Marlboro) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;3.59 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;8.07 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+124.86 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Transportation&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=2&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=2&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;One-way Ticket (local transport) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.76 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.27 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+199.69 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Monthly Pass &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;26.61 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;82.12 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+208.63 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.57 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2.25 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+43.02 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Taxi 1km (Normal Tariff) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.61 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.12 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+83.44 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;11.36 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;23.50 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+106.78 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Gasoline (1 liter) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.61 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.96 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_small"&gt;-40.54 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;20,158.02 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;21,666.67 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_light_small"&gt;+7.48 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Utilities (Monthly)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=3&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=3&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Basic (Electricity, Gas, Water, Garbage) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;108.61 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;211.43 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+94.67 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local (No Discounts or Plans) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.10 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.46 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+341.24 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Internet (6 Mbps, Flat Rate, Cable/ADSL) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;18.40 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;36.21 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+96.74 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Sports And Leisure&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=4&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=4&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;42.09 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;48.50 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_light_small"&gt;+15.23 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;11.50 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;17.00 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+47.87 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;6.49 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;11.22 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_small"&gt;+72.94 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Clothing And Shoes&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=5&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=5&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;1 Pair of Levis 501 (Or Equivalent) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;81.60 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;46.25 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_small"&gt;-43.32 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&amp;amp;M, ...) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;47.62 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;29.12 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_small"&gt;-38.84 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;1 Pair of Nike Shoes &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;78.30 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;85.00 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_light_small"&gt;+8.56 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;1 Pair of Men Leather Shoes &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;90.78 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;63.80 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_small"&gt;-29.72 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Rent Per Month&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=6&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=6&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;456.89 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1,281.92 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+180.57 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;355.23 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;868.78 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+144.57 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;696.66 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2,390.62 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+243.16 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;523.07 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1,465.00 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="red_heavy_small"&gt;+180.08 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Buy Apartment Price&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=7&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=7&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Price per Square Meter to Buy Apartment in City Centre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2,084.14 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1,973.38 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_light_small"&gt;-5.31 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Price per Square Meter to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1,595.88 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;1,380.47 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_light_small"&gt;-13.50 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr_highlighted_menu"&gt;Salaries And Financing&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Poznan&amp;amp;country=Poland&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=8&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.numbeo.com/common/form.jsp?city=Chicago%2C+IL&amp;amp;country=United+States&amp;amp;returnUrl=%2Fcost-of-living%2Fcompare_cities.jsp%3Fcountry1%3DPoland%26city1%3DPoznan%26country2%3DUnited%2BStates%26city2%3DChicago%252C%2BIL%26displayCurrency%3DUSD&amp;amp;current=8&amp;amp;section=true" rel="nofollow"&gt;Edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Median Monthly Disposable Salary (After Tax) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;919.15 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;2,927.50 $&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_heavy_small"&gt;+218.50 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_highlighted"&gt;&lt;td&gt;Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentanges (%), Yearly &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;7.68&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;5.51&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" style="vertical-align: middle;"&gt;&lt;span class="green_small"&gt;-28.30 %&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;i&gt;Last update&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;i&gt;January, 2012&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;i&gt;January, 2012&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="tr_standard"&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;i&gt;Contributors (past 18 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type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/cost-comparison.html' title='Cost comparison.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-6735124946587572243</id><published>2012-01-22T14:32:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T14:37:16.960-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Iwański family visit.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JsSy3DNMSjI/Txxj8qGP67I/AAAAAAAAekY/7Vus3h0NMiY/s1600/IMG_9615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JsSy3DNMSjI/Txxj8qGP67I/AAAAAAAAekY/7Vus3h0NMiY/s320/IMG_9615.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gggJtNA7X-Q/TxxkIKBY7kI/AAAAAAAAekg/UOZvQByXMB8/s1600/IMG_9617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gggJtNA7X-Q/TxxkIKBY7kI/AAAAAAAAekg/UOZvQByXMB8/s320/IMG_9617.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RuvSr7dgJ-E/TxxkKb2d8xI/AAAAAAAAeko/Uh4XnXyS0F8/s1600/IMG_9616.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RuvSr7dgJ-E/TxxkKb2d8xI/AAAAAAAAeko/Uh4XnXyS0F8/s320/IMG_9616.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-73TTCgVRL08/TxxkOBfTH4I/AAAAAAAAekw/uIIMavc65ok/s1600/IMG_9618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-73TTCgVRL08/TxxkOBfTH4I/AAAAAAAAekw/uIIMavc65ok/s320/IMG_9618.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qu9BuI6gXfI/TxxkPM41gkI/AAAAAAAAek4/9iTR8WtyNUg/s1600/IMG_9606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qu9BuI6gXfI/TxxkPM41gkI/AAAAAAAAek4/9iTR8WtyNUg/s320/IMG_9606.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thinking that today it would be snowing, Joan was preparing to wear her new boots today but we woke up to pouring rain and it continued throughout the day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We left for our visit with the Iwański family in Koniń and arrived the a little after 2PM. As is normal when you visit someone here, the first thing we did was eat obiad.&amp;nbsp; It was delicious, consisting of chicken and rice, pork slices, tomatoes and mushrooms. Being careful not to eat too much, we left room for the desserts and there were far too many kinds to choose from.&amp;nbsp; Of course, juice, coffee and tea were offered and we chose coffee. It was an excellent opportunity to practice speaking Polish because Anna doesn't speak English but is fluent in French.&amp;nbsp; Her son Łukasz speaks some English and her husband, Hieronim, is fluent in German.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anna told us some family news that we didn't know and then went on to say that in March, if the job market doesn't improve in Koniń, her and her son will go to southern France for work for a short period of time, maybe 3-6 months. This was surprising news for us not knowing about it before our meeting.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spent about 4 hours talking and then left for our return trip home, stopping first at the cemetery in Golina to put a candle on the grave of my relatives.&amp;nbsp; It's been three months since the last funeral and the headstone has not yet been put in place but I suppose that has to do with the weather.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Łukasz said he was interested in improving his English conversation so I told him we could use Skype and talk with each, similar to what I do with cousin Andrzej.&amp;nbsp; He thought it was a good idea too and we'll start as soon as he's ready.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślenie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;padał śnieg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przygotowywał się do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;noszenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowe buty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obudziliśmy się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ulewny deszcz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i nadal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ciągu dnia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wyszliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszej wizyty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z rodziną&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Iwański&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Koninie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i przybył&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;godzina czternasta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jak to zwykle&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podczas wizyty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tu ktoś&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pierwszą rzeczą, którą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zrobiłem było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zjeść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obiad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Było pyszne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, składający się z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kurczaka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i ryżu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, plastry&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wieprzowiny,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pomidorów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i grzybów.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Uważając, aby nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeść zbyt dużo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, zostawiliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miejsce na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;desery&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i nie było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zbyt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiele rodzajów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do wyboru.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oczywiście&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, sok&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, kawa i herbata&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oferowane były&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wybraliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kawy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To była&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;doskonała okazja do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;praktyki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polskich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówiąc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ponieważ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Anna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie mówi po angielsku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;płynnie po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;francusku.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jej syn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Łukasz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę po angielsku,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jej mąż&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, Hieronim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;biegle posługuje się językiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niemieckim.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Anna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powiedziała nam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilka nowości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodzinie, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie wiedzieliśmy,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;a następnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poszedł na powiedzieć&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że w marcu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na rynku pracy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie poprawi się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Koninie,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ona i jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;syn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pójdzie do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;południowej Francji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do pracy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na krótki okres&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czasu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;, może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;3-6 miesięcy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zaskakujące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wieści dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nas&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiedząc o tym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przed naszym spotkaniem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;S&lt;span class="hps"&gt;pędziliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;około 4 godzin&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmowy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a następnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyjechał do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podróż do domu,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zatrzymując się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;najpierw na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cmentarzu w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Golina&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;postawić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świeczkę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na grobie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moich krewnych.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;już trzy miesiące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od ostatniego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pogrzebu i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nagrobka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie zostały jeszcze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wprowadzone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale przypuszczam, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma do czynienia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z pogodą.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Łukasz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powiedział, że jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zainteresowana poprawą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jego angielski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc powiedziałem mu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;możemy używać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Skype&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmawiać ze sobą&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, podobnie jak to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zrobić z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kuzyn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Andrzej&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślał, że to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobry pomysł,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;a my&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozpocząć, jak tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie gotów&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-6735124946587572243?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/6735124946587572243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=6735124946587572243&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6735124946587572243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6735124946587572243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/iwanski-family-visit.html' title='Iwański family visit.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JsSy3DNMSjI/Txxj8qGP67I/AAAAAAAAekY/7Vus3h0NMiY/s72-c/IMG_9615.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-2477041481941893165</id><published>2012-01-21T13:20:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T13:23:02.853-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Movie and boots.   Film i buty.</title><content type='html'>I'll post the recipe for the muffins in the next day or two. A few of you want it so I'll ask Joan to type it in with the instructions for making them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we went to the movies and say a rather strange movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. It's a longgggg movie, kind of interesting but seemed to go on forever.&amp;nbsp; It's been here for a couple of weeks so there weren't many people in the theater and it was easy to reserve two good seats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we were done we were passing a shoe store and I managed to get Joan to buy a pair of winter boots I thought she needed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; She wasn't so sure she needed another pair but after she bought them she was glad she did.......................................... and they were on sale. :-)&amp;nbsp; It was snowing most of the day so the boots will come in handy tomorrow when we go to Koniń.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the warning lights came on during the ride home about lights and I discovered my back up lights are not working so I'll have to fix them on Monday.&amp;nbsp; I'm hoping it's just the bulbs that need replacing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wyślę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przepis na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;babeczki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;następny dzień lub dwa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kilka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chcesz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spytam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wpisywać go&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z instrukcjami&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich wytwarzania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzisiaj poszliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do kina&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i powiedzieć:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dość dziwny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;film&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziewczyna z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tattoo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dragon.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jest to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;longgggg&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;film&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, rodzaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;interesujące, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wydawało się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trwać wiecznie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tutaj od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilku tygodni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było wielu ludzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w teatrze i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to było łatwe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rezerwy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwóch dobrych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miejsc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skończyliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mijaliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sklep z obuwiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;udało mi się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kupić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;parę butów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zimowych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślałem, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;potrzebne.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ona nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;była tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pewna, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;​​potrzebne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;inną parę&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kupiła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;im&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;była zadowolona, ​​że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;​​zrobiła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;..............................&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;............&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i były&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w sprzedaży.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;:-)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Padał śnieg,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez większość dnia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;buty będą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przydatne w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przyszłości&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, kiedy idziemy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do Konina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jedna z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lampek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przyszedł na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podczas&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jazdy do domu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;światła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odkryłem, że mój&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powrót&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;światła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie działają&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc będę musiał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;je naprawić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w poniedziałek.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mam nadzieję, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żarówki, które&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wymagają wymiany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="" id="gt-undo" style="display: none;"&gt;ts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools-r"&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Listen" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-listen-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Listen" id="gt-res-listen" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Read phonetically" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-roman-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Read phonetically" id="gt-res-roman" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Rate translation" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Rate translation" id="gt-res-rate"&gt;&lt;div aria-haspopup="true" class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button" role="button" tabindex="0" title="" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-outer-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-inner-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-caption" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-flat-menu-button-img gt-rate-icon jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2477041481941893165?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2477041481941893165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2477041481941893165&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2477041481941893165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2477041481941893165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/movie-and-boots.html' title='Movie and boots.   Film i buty.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-151038820873067072</id><published>2012-01-20T09:43:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T09:44:15.651-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Muffin day.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8uY9YJqfd2Q/TxmIwmFHyjI/AAAAAAAAehw/z4_6eEtzFfc/s1600/IMG_9602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8uY9YJqfd2Q/TxmIwmFHyjI/AAAAAAAAehw/z4_6eEtzFfc/s320/IMG_9602.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L0UFqttX2Hw/TxmJBwZBfCI/AAAAAAAAeh4/9f-dNXGhcwc/s1600/IMG_9604.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L0UFqttX2Hw/TxmJBwZBfCI/AAAAAAAAeh4/9f-dNXGhcwc/s320/IMG_9604.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;The cook (Joan) decided to become a baker also today and made these Parmesan-Sage Herb&amp;nbsp; muffins.&amp;nbsp; She made 12 but we had to sample two of them to make sure they tasted good before we ate the others with our dinner tonight.&amp;nbsp; They did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It snowed a little and we had to go out for a doctor appointment for Joan's checkup.&amp;nbsp; On the way home we stopped at our favorite meat store to buy śzynki domowy to have in the house for lunches.&amp;nbsp; They have the best ham at this store and kabanosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it's time to do homework for next week.&amp;nbsp; I have to write 25 questions in Polish for 6 paragraphs that I translated from English to Polish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kucharz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Joan)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdecydował się na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;piekarza&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;również&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dokonał tych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;parmezanem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="atn"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sage&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;babeczki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Herb.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zrobiła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;12, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;próbki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwa z nich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby upewnić się&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobrego smaku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jedliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;innych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kolację&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zrobili.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;To snowed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i trzeba było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;iść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na wizytę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do lekarza&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sprawdzanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joanny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W drodze powrotnej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zatrzymaliśmy się w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ulubionym sklepie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mięso&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kupić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śzynki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;domowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w domu na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lunch.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mają najlepszą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szynkę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w tym sklepie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kabanosa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Teraz nadszedł czas,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do odrabiania lekcji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w przyszłym tygodniu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Muszę napisać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;25 pytań&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w języku polskim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla 6&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;paragrafów, które&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przetłumaczyłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z angielskiego na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polski.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-151038820873067072?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/151038820873067072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=151038820873067072&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/151038820873067072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/151038820873067072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/muffin-day.html' title='Muffin day.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8uY9YJqfd2Q/TxmIwmFHyjI/AAAAAAAAehw/z4_6eEtzFfc/s72-c/IMG_9602.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4438180382725854576</id><published>2012-01-19T05:59:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T06:01:10.755-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Good news!  Dobra wiadomość!!</title><content type='html'>I received notice today that my sister has sent three DVD's with old family pictures, documents and original photos of people she doesn't recognize. I'm excited about it and can't wait for them to arrive in 7-10 days because I can finally add pictures to my Piekarczyk side of the family and maybe go deeper into the ancestry of my fathers side of the family.&amp;nbsp; Next week I'll go to a lawyer and get his advice whether or not it is worth pursuing the confiscated properties that once belonged to the family in southern Poland.&lt;br /&gt;I went for the quarterly blood work to see how I\m doing and next Monday will visit the doctor to get the results of the PSA test.&amp;nbsp; It's been a year and a half since the treatment and in the last report(three months ago) everything was good. Hope it continues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Otrzymałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zawiadomienie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że moja siostra&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wysłał trzy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;DVD z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stare zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodzinne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, dokumenty i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oryginalne zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ludzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie rozpoznaje.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jestem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podekscytowany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i nie może czekać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na ich przyjazd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ciągu 7-10 dni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ponieważ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w końcu mogę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dodać zdjęcia na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojej stronie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Piekarczyk&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z rodziny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a być może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;także głębiej wniknąć w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przodków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojej stronie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ojców&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodziny.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W przyszłym tygodniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pójdę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do adwokata&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i uzyskać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jego rady&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, czy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;warto&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;realizować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skonfiskowanych majątków&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, które kiedyś należały&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do rodziny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w południowej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Poszedłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kwartalnego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;badania krwi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zobaczyć, jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;\ m&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;robi i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;następny poniedziałek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odwiedzić lekarza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby otrzymać wyniki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;testu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;PSA.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;półtora roku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;leczenia i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ostatnim raporcie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;(trzy miesiące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;temu)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystko było dobre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nadzieję, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w dalszym ciągu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4438180382725854576?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4438180382725854576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4438180382725854576&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4438180382725854576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4438180382725854576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/good-news.html' title='Good news!  Dobra wiadomość!!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4110241937425872617</id><published>2012-01-18T14:19:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T14:20:53.578-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sopa and Pipa</title><content type='html'>Wednesday means Kandulski's and meeting Zbyszek where we talk about different subjects while we drink coffee and eat delicious pastries.&amp;nbsp; Today I had Placek which is like a cheesecakes with peaches on top.&amp;nbsp; Very Good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you breathe, use the internet or watch television then you are aware of the huge controversy over two new bills being sent to the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate regarding copyrights and using the internet.&amp;nbsp; If you are not aware of it, it's time to find out before these bills get passed. The short names for the bills are S.O.P.A&amp;nbsp;("Stop Online Piracy Act,") and P.I.P.A."Protect IP Act." )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Środa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oznacza&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zbyszek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kandulski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spotkań, w którym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmawiamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na różne tematy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a my&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;napić się kawy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i zjeść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pyszne ciastka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś miałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Placek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, która jest jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;serniki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z brzoskwiniami&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na wierzchu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bardzo dobre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jeśli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oddychać,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;korzystać z Internetu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oglądać telewizję&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wtedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdaje sobie sprawę z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ogromnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kontrowersji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwa nowe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rachunki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są wysyłane do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Izby Reprezentantów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Senatu USA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w sprawie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;praw autorskich i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;korzystania z Internetu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jeśli nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świadomi,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;że nadszedł czas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby dowiedzieć się&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, zanim te&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rachunki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przejdzie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Krótkie nazwy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;za rachunki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Sopa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;"Stop&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Online&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ustawy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;piractwa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;")&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;PIPA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;"Protect&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;IP&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Act".&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4110241937425872617?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4110241937425872617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4110241937425872617&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4110241937425872617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4110241937425872617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/sopa-and-pipa.html' title='Sopa and Pipa'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-8451531629894837578</id><published>2012-01-17T10:05:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T10:06:45.264-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow! Śnieg!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2J1eriPoWG8/TxWabMFpFVI/AAAAAAAAehg/mKVdu35sg_0/s1600/IMG_9598_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2J1eriPoWG8/TxWabMFpFVI/AAAAAAAAehg/mKVdu35sg_0/s320/IMG_9598_1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cxje-aNOM1I/TxWamj5mpNI/AAAAAAAAeho/544x7_ewVW4/s1600/IMG_9601.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cxje-aNOM1I/TxWamj5mpNI/AAAAAAAAeho/544x7_ewVW4/s320/IMG_9601.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It snowed a little more last night but only about 1 inch. Todays driving took a little longer because of it but I left ahead of time in order to be on time.&amp;nbsp; I hate being late for anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To get me into the spring mood I started re-reading the "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving. I've read it twice but each time I read it I get something more out of it, especially since&amp;nbsp; one of our vist's in the last two years was to the Alhambra in Granada.&amp;nbsp; If you ever get to Spain it is definitely a MUST SEE place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my homework is all done and the correction came back from Z.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately there is much more red corrections than I've see in a while.&amp;nbsp; Boo hoo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;To snowed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę więcej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nocy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;1 cal.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzisiejsze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jazdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trwało&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nieco dłużej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze względu na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyszedłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przed czasem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na czas.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nienawidzę być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;późno&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na wszystko.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Aby uzyskać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mnie w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiosenny nastrój&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zacząłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponownego czytania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Opowieści z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Alhambry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;" autorstwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Washingtona Irvinga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Przeczytałem ją&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwa razy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale za każdym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;razem, kiedy czytam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;coś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więcej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z niego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, zwłaszcza, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;​​jeden z naszych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;vist&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciągu ostatnich dwóch lat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Alhambra w Granadzie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jeśli kiedykolwiek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do Hiszpanii&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest zdecydowanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;MUST SEE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miejsce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tak więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moja praca domowa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest wykonywane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;korekty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wrócił z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Z.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Niestety,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest znacznie więcej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czerwonych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;korekt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niż&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ja&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zobaczyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na jakiś czas.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Boo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;hoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-8451531629894837578?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/8451531629894837578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=8451531629894837578&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8451531629894837578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8451531629894837578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/snow-snieg.html' title='Snow! Śnieg!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2J1eriPoWG8/TxWabMFpFVI/AAAAAAAAehg/mKVdu35sg_0/s72-c/IMG_9598_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4007524290410954835</id><published>2012-01-16T12:52:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T12:55:00.788-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Meeting!  Spotkanie</title><content type='html'>A little snow in the afternoon so we have a small covering of snow on the ground now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This coming Sunday we'll be visiting with a great granddaughter of my great grandparents in Koniń, Anna Iwanska and her family.&amp;nbsp; We met her the first time we came to Poland in 2003 and have seen her on several occassions but this will be the first time we will spend a longer time together.&amp;nbsp; She doesn't speak English, which is good for me, but her son, Łukasz, does. That is a good thing for Joan.&amp;nbsp; The last time we met was last year at a funeral and during that time we agreed to meet with each other so when I returned from the U.S. I called her to arrange a meeting. I'm looking forward to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that the tree is taken down and Christmas is over it's only two and a half months until springtime. So far this year winter has again been mild with little snow and very cold temperatures.&amp;nbsp; I hope that remains the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mało śniegu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po południu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;małe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pokrycie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śniegu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na ziemi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Przyczynia się to do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niedzieli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zwiedzanie z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawnuczki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moich pradziadków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Koninie,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Anna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Iwańska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jej rodziny.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Spotkaliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ją&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po raz pierwszy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;doszliśmy do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w 2003 roku i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;widziałem ją&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilka razy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po raz pierwszy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będziemy spędzać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więcej czasu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;razem.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ona&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie mówi po angielsku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, co jest dobre&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla mnie, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej syn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, Łukasz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobre dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ostatni raz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spotkaliśmy się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w zeszłym roku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na pogrzebie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;iw tym czasie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;umówiliśmy się na spotkanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze sobą, tak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, kiedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wrócił ze Stanów Zjednoczonych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nazwałem ją&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w celu umówienia spotkania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Czekam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z niecierpliwością.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Teraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że drzewo jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyłączony, a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Boże Narodzenie jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tylko dwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i pół miesiąca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;aż do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiosny.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dotychczas&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tej zimy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;roku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponownie został&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;łagodnym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mało śniegu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bardzo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niskich temperaturach.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mam nadzieję, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pozostaje ten sam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="spell-place-holder" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools"&gt;&lt;div id="gt-src-tools-l"&gt;&lt;a href="" id="gt-undo" style="display: none;"&gt;Undo edits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools-r"&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Listen" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-listen-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Listen" id="gt-res-listen" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Read phonetically" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-roman-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Read phonetically" id="gt-res-roman" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Rate translation" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Rate translation" id="gt-res-rate"&gt;&lt;div aria-haspopup="true" class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button" role="button" tabindex="0" title="" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-outer-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-inner-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-caption" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-flat-menu-button-img gt-rate-icon jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4007524290410954835?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4007524290410954835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4007524290410954835&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4007524290410954835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4007524290410954835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/meeting.html' title='Meeting!  Spotkanie'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-1811224300771950372</id><published>2012-01-15T07:22:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T11:58:28.524-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Świdnica church.</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mX9c_p0ZS4o" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have been talking via the Exchange with a young lady from Kraków but living temporarily in New York. We have a similar problem in that she finds it hard to find anyone to have a long conversation with in New York, in English, and I, living in Poznań, can't find a person to have a long conversation with in Polish. It's a very strange situation but kind of funny.&amp;nbsp; Yesterday she told me about her favorite music artists and we have almost the same likes.&amp;nbsp; This I find very amazing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I saw this 360 degree view of an old church in southwest Poland in Świdnica. I posted it on the right. When you click on it and it opens, use the buttons at the bottom to move around the church but first click the button on the right to get a large screen view.&amp;nbsp; You can zoom in and out with the plus or minus sign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rozmawiałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Exchange&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z panienką&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z Krakowa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszkała tymczasowo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Nowym Jorku.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podobny problem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w tym, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trudno jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znaleźć nikogo do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;długą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmowę z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Nowym Jorku,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w języku angielskim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a ja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszka w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Poznaniu,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie można znaleźć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;osoby do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;długiej rozmowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w języku polskim.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To bardzo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziwna sytuacja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zabawne.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wczoraj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powiedziała mi o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;swoich ulubionych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;artystów i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawie tak samo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lubi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mi się bardzo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdumiewające.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Widziałem to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;360 stopni widok&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;starego kościoła,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w południowo-zachodniej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Świdnicy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Napisałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po prawej stronie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po kliknięciu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na nią&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i otwiera&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;za pomocą przycisków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na dole, aby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poruszać się po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kościele, lecz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;najpierw kliknij&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przycisk po prawej stronie&lt;/span&gt;, aby uzyskać &lt;span class="hps"&gt;duży&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ekran.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Możesz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powiększać i pomniejszać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze znakiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;plus lub minus&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-1811224300771950372?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/1811224300771950372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=1811224300771950372&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/1811224300771950372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/1811224300771950372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/swidnica-church.html' title='Świdnica church.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/mX9c_p0ZS4o/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4724894233918109904</id><published>2012-01-14T09:52:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T09:53:52.561-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Cold</title><content type='html'>It 2c outside and colder than it's been in a while.&amp;nbsp; The swirling wind doesn't help and it's a good day to stay inside which is what we did this afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had conversations with two teachers from Warsaw who&amp;nbsp;are helping me with two cases of the Polish language, went through a lot of exercises and feel now like my brain is on fire.&amp;nbsp; Thank goodness M Jak Milość is on later to take my mind off of studying :-)&amp;nbsp; We were going to take the tree down today but it's getting late so it will have to wait until tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;2c&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zewnątrz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i zimniejsze niż&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na jakiś czas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Wirujący&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiatr&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie pomaga&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jest to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobry dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do pozostania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wewnątrz którego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to, co zrobiliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tego popołudnia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Miałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmowę z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwóch nauczycieli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z Warszawy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, którzy pomagają&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwa przypadki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w języku polskim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, przeszedł przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiele&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ćwiczeń i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz czuję&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jakby mój mózg&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ogniu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzięki Bogu,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;M jak Miłość&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;później&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na moje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;myśli od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nauki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;:-)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mieliśmy zamiar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podjąć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drzewa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w dół&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;robi się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;późno, więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie musiał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poczekać do jutra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4724894233918109904?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4724894233918109904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4724894233918109904&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4724894233918109904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4724894233918109904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/cold.html' title='Cold'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-562773434897608935</id><published>2012-01-13T06:11:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T06:12:57.850-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Here comes the sun!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--3I0bLM-Zp4/TxAfQ_7OX6I/AAAAAAAAehY/coFywyxOvw0/s1600/IMG_9588.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--3I0bLM-Zp4/TxAfQ_7OX6I/AAAAAAAAehY/coFywyxOvw0/s320/IMG_9588.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;After last nights black out , today it's been sunny most of the day with a little snow that melted right away. Still way to warm for January, 12c.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both of us had our lesson this morning with Z and some of those big, long words I worked hard to pronounce were forgotten so I have to go over them again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far, nothing special planned for the weekend but that can change at any moment.&amp;nbsp; I guess we'll take the Christmas tree and decorations down this weekend and put them away until next year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have this new, old picture of my father from 1947 with his second wife.&amp;nbsp; It was taken at the Marine Corp Ball in Chicago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po ostatniej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nocy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;black out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;słoneczny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;większość dnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śniegu, który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;topi się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od razu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jeszcze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sposób na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciepłe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w styczniu,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;12c.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oboje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lekcji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Z&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a niektóre&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z tych wielkich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;słów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pracowałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trudne do wymówienia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zostały zapomniane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc muszę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przejść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;je ponownie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jak dotąd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, nic specjalnego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zaplanowano na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;weekend, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to może się zmienić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w każdej chwili.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślę, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będziemy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;choinkę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i ozdoby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w dół&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ten weekend i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odłożyłem je&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dopiero w przyszłym roku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mam ten&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowy, stary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego ojca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z 1947 r.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z drugą żoną&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zostało zrobione w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Marine&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Corp&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ball&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chicago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-562773434897608935?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/562773434897608935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=562773434897608935&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/562773434897608935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/562773434897608935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/here-comes-sun.html' title='Here comes the sun!!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--3I0bLM-Zp4/TxAfQ_7OX6I/AAAAAAAAehY/coFywyxOvw0/s72-c/IMG_9588.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-6702471659683819587</id><published>2012-01-12T14:33:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T14:34:28.367-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Back in the U.P.</title><content type='html'>Tonight we were back in the Upper Peninsula for a few hours.&amp;nbsp; By that I mean all of the electricty in our complex was out for three hours so we used candlelight. Very Romantic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow's our first lesson with Z since we've been back so, having no homework to prepare, we just&amp;nbsp; reviewed the things we have done over the last few months. It was a good thing because some of them I already forgot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byliśmy z powrotem w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Upper&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Peninsula&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na kilka godzin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mam tu na myśli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystkie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;energii elektrycznej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w naszym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kompleksie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez trzy godziny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc użyliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przy świecach.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bardzo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;romantyczny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jutro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nasza pierwsza&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lekcja z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Z&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ponieważ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z powrotem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, nie mając&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do przygotowania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pracy domowej&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, po prostu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;recenzja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zrobiliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ciągu ostatnich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilku miesięcy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobrze, bo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niektóre z nich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;już&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zapomniałem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-6702471659683819587?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/6702471659683819587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=6702471659683819587&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6702471659683819587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6702471659683819587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/back-in-up.html' title='Back in the U.P.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-5332925207066809703</id><published>2012-01-11T10:54:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T11:39:45.943-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Same question.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-naHKQXIuOBw/Tw3ItYmQ7QI/AAAAAAAAehI/CAIP4GUeP4E/s1600/IMG_9593.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-naHKQXIuOBw/Tw3ItYmQ7QI/AAAAAAAAehI/CAIP4GUeP4E/s320/IMG_9593.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WZ3VjOhIgas/Tw3JGq2CDsI/AAAAAAAAehQ/khay44mL1us/s1600/IMG_9594.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WZ3VjOhIgas/Tw3JGq2CDsI/AAAAAAAAehQ/khay44mL1us/s320/IMG_9594.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Still the same question from native Poles that we know..........why are you living in Poland when you could live in the U.S? I've answered that question more than any others we have gotten over the four years we've been here and to the same people but they still&amp;nbsp;can't understand it and I'm not answering it anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally a little sun today, not for long, but at least a little.&amp;nbsp; We met with Z for the traditional Kandulski's meeting on Wednesday. Tomorrow I have to go for my quarterly checkup and then food shopping in the afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joan made a new lentil soup today for dinner that was really excellent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wciąż&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to samo pytanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rdzennych Polaków&lt;/span&gt;, że wiemy &lt;span class="hps"&gt;..........&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dlaczego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszkasz w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt;, kiedy można było &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszkać w USA&lt;/span&gt;? &lt;span class="hps"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;już&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiedział na to pytanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bardziej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niż jakiekolwiek inne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dostaliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ciągu czterech lat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tutaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do tych samych ludzi&lt;/span&gt;, ale nadal nie &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozumiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i nie mam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiedzi na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;już&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wreszcie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę słońca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt;, nie na długo, ale przynajmniej &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Spotkaliśmy się z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tradycyjne spotkanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kandulski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w środę&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jutro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;muszę iść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do mojego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kwartalnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sprawdzanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zakupami żywności&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po południu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-5332925207066809703?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/5332925207066809703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=5332925207066809703&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5332925207066809703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5332925207066809703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/same-question.html' title='Same question.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-naHKQXIuOBw/Tw3ItYmQ7QI/AAAAAAAAehI/CAIP4GUeP4E/s72-c/IMG_9593.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-8424403986096425531</id><published>2012-01-10T11:28:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T11:29:59.451-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Warmed up.</title><content type='html'>The flat has finally reached a comfortable temperature again after waiting 3 days for it to warm up. I'm amazed it took so long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks Shaz for the heads up on the headstone affair.&amp;nbsp; I'll keep that in mind when I write in the spring to see if it has actually been done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, things are back to normal now in our life in Poland.&amp;nbsp; We're already thinking about our next trip somewhere and know we will be in Cieszyn in July to meet and visit with one of our conversation exchange people.&amp;nbsp; We also have friends who live nearby so, if possible, we can visit with them also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was doing some checking of my blog archives and discovered that since April 2011 not all pages were archived and I may have lost the first week or two from each month until now.&amp;nbsp; That's not a good thing but Blogger has been no help in giving me an answer on how to recover them.&amp;nbsp; I think now I will have to archive each two weeks of a month instead of the whole month at one time.&amp;nbsp; It's a pity because the earlier years are all in tact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mieszkanie ma&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wreszcie dotarł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;komfortową temperaturę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponownie po odczekaniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;3 dni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się rozgrzać.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jestem zaskoczony,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trwało tak długo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Shaz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzięki za&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;głowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;romans&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nagrobek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Będę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o tym pamiętać&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, gdy piszę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na wiosnę&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, czy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zostały faktycznie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wykonane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, to są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z powrotem do normalnego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w naszym życiu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jesteśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;już myśli o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszej następnej podróży&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gdzieś i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiesz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że będziemy w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Cieszynie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w lipcu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na spotkanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i odwiedzić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeden z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszych ludzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wymiany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmowy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mamy też&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znajomych&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, którzy mieszkają&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w pobliżu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, w miarę możliwości&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;możemy odwiedzić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z nimi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;również&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Robię&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pewne sprawdzenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego bloga&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;archiwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i odkryła, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;​​od kwietnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;2011 r. nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystkie strony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zostały zarchiwizowane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;może przegrałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pierwszy tydzień lub dwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w każdym miesiącu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;aż do teraz.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie jest dobrą rzeczą&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Blogger&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;został&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bez pomocy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, dając&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mi odpowiedź&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, w jaki sposób&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;je odzyskać&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślę, że teraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będę miał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;archiwum&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;każdej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwa tygodnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w miesiącu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a nie cały&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miesiąc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na raz.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Szkoda,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z poprzednich lat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w takcie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-8424403986096425531?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/8424403986096425531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=8424403986096425531&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8424403986096425531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8424403986096425531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/warmed-up.html' title='Warmed up.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7345622196949933035</id><published>2012-01-09T12:13:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T18:50:22.751-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Holy Cross Cemetery</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pr7b4EPb_UQ/Twst-40MO_I/AAAAAAAAeg4/h3tXyP7q-Cc/s1600/IMG_9542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pr7b4EPb_UQ/Twst-40MO_I/AAAAAAAAeg4/h3tXyP7q-Cc/s320/IMG_9542.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OvNDqEEOHQU/TwsuCv6FGoI/AAAAAAAAehA/i50p23pFL7E/s1600/IMG_9543.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OvNDqEEOHQU/TwsuCv6FGoI/AAAAAAAAehA/i50p23pFL7E/s320/IMG_9543.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Calumet City, Illinois was originally opened to serve the rapidly growing  Polish Community in the southeast Chicagoland area and Northwest Indiana. Today  the cemetery welcomes all Catholics of varying ethnic groups. In 1983 an  Interment Chapel / Garden Crypt Complex was erected. A new Garden / Crypt  Complex, adjacent to the original structure, was completed in 1989 and dedicated  to Our Lady of Czestochowa, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and to Saint Anne, mother  of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the place where my Kazmierczak grandparents, aunts, uncles and father are buried.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;On our recent trip back to the area I stopped to pay my respects to them all and was disappointed to see the sunken headstones of my grandparents, neglected now because no one still lives even remoteley close.&amp;nbsp; I wrote an email to the cemetery last Saturday asking if it would be possible to reset the headstones and what would be the charge.&amp;nbsp; To my surprise, today I received this reply....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; Dear  David,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;        In the spring I will reset both headstones that you requested.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;        Thank you,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;        Dennis Trawinski&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I replied with my heartfelt thanks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ecxMsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Świętego Krzyża&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Cmentarz katolicki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Calumet City&lt;/span&gt;, Illinois &lt;span class="hps"&gt;został otwarty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do obsługi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szybko rosnącej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;społeczności polskiej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na południowy wschód od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obszaru i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Northwest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Indiana.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cmentarz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wita wszystkich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;katolików&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;różnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;grup etnicznych.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W 1983&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pogrzeby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kaplica /&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Garden&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Complex&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Krypta&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;została wzniesiona&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ogród /&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Crypt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Complex,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obok&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oryginalnej konstrukcji,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;został ukończony w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;1989 roku i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poświęcony Matce Bożej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Częstochowskiej,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Matki Bożej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z Góry Karmel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i św&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Anne&lt;/span&gt;, matka &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Najświętszej Maryi Panny.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jest to miejsce,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gdzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moi dziadkowie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kaźmierczak,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciotki, wujowie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ojciec&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są pochowani.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na naszej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ostatniej podróży&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z powrotem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do obszaru&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przestałem się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze czcią&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do nich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystkich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i był rozczarowany&lt;/span&gt;, aby zobaczyć &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sunken&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nagrobki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moich dziadków&lt;/span&gt;, zaniedbane, ponieważ teraz &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nikt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nadal mieszka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nawet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;remoteley&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;blisko.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Napisałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;e-mail na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cmentarzu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ostatnią sobotę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z pytaniem, czy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byłoby możliwe&lt;/span&gt;, aby przywrócić &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nagrobków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jakie będą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;opłaty&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ku mojemu zaskoczeniu,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;otrzymałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tę odpowiedź&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Drogi Davidzie&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na wiosnę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zresetować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zarówno&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nagrobków&lt;/span&gt;, o które prosił.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziękuję,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dennis&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Trawinski&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Odpowiedziałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;serdeczne podziękowania.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7345622196949933035?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7345622196949933035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7345622196949933035&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7345622196949933035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7345622196949933035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/holy-cross-cemetery.html' title='Holy Cross Cemetery'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pr7b4EPb_UQ/Twst-40MO_I/AAAAAAAAeg4/h3tXyP7q-Cc/s72-c/IMG_9542.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-43118625011376584</id><published>2012-01-08T06:37:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T06:41:00.657-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New site.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;There’s a site that I read called "Polish Blog" that recently posted a site of virtual trips&amp;nbsp;across Poland and there’s plenty to look at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wirtualnykraj.pl/layout2011.php?page=home&amp;amp;action=&amp;amp;clang=PL" target="_blank"&gt;Wirtualny Kraj &lt;/a&gt;allows you to browse various locations across Poland and go for a (virtual) walk across many cities – both major and those less known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You can visit museums, various tourist attractions, churches, universities and even go inside Sejm, the Polish parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The site is a great way of exploring new destinations and potentially planning your next trip. So, if you find some time over the festive period, why not give it a try? The site has an English version as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Site has tons of pictures, movies, galleries. You can visit schools, shopping malls, town halls, restaurants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You can take a walk through the town and see beautiful buildings, streets, gardens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It is actually pretty cool and you can really get to know the regions. Once the site loads, just&amp;nbsp; change the language to English and use the arrows to move around each screen 360 degrees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie ma&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miejsca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, które czytałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;o nazwie "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;", który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;napisał niedawno&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miejsce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wirtualnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wycieczek po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;a jest wiele&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do obejrzenia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wirtualny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kraj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pozwala na przeglądanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;różnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lokalizacjach na terenie całej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;udać się na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;(wirtualną)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spacer po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wielu miast&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zarówno duże, jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mniej znanych.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Możesz odwiedzić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;muzea,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiele atrakcji turystycznych&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, kościołów,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;uniwersytetów&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a nawet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wejść do środka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Sejmu,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;parlamentu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polskiego.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Strona jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świetnym sposobem na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odkrywanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowych miejsc i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;potencjalnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Planując pobyt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeśli znajdziesz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę czasu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ciągu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;okresu świątecznego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, to dlaczego nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spróbować&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na stronie jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wersja angielska&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, jak również.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Strona&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma mnóstwo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęć, filmów&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, galerie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Możesz odwiedzić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szkoły,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;centra handlowe, hale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miasta,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;restauracji.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Można&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wybrać się na spacer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po mieście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zobaczyć piękne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;budynki, ulice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ogrody.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;To jest rzeczywiście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bardzo fajne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;można naprawdę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poznać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;regionów.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po załadowaniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;strony,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wystarczy zmienić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;język na angielski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i za pomocą strzałek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do poruszania się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;każdego ekranu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o 360 stopni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table id="footer" style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; 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Today it's 19.5c inside but last night it was cold enough to sleep in long underwear and one of those old night caps would have been nice.&amp;nbsp; Amazing how long it takes to heat this place up to a comfortable level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We left at 11:30AM to meet with Z and exchange stories of our travels in America and his in Bulgaria. He went there to spend the holidays with his daughter.&amp;nbsp; He brought his laptop to show us some of the pictures he took while there.&amp;nbsp; He said it was still a very depressed country with some villages completely empty although where he stayed&amp;nbsp;the city was well populated and catered to English and German tourists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later we went to do a little food shopping for the week at our supermarket. It was packed with people, the main reason I hate to shop on Saturday but this time it was a necessity because we left no food in the house before our vacation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the right side of the blog is a From Poland with Love series of video's Rob Strybel, a journalist/writer, American ExPat living in Warsaw for a long time,&amp;nbsp;sent that's informative about modern day Poland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mieszkanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;temperatura&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powoli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rośnie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;19.5c&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w środku, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ostatniej nocy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było zimno&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wystarczy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spać w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;długim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bieliznę i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jednym z tych starych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czapki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nocy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byłoby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miło.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Niesamowite, jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;długo to trwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do ogrzewania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tego miejsca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;komfortowego poziomu&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wyjechaliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o 11:30&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na spotkanie z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i wymiany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;historie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podróży po Ameryce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Bułgarii.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pojechał tam&lt;/span&gt;, aby spędzić &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wakacje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze swoją córką.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Przyniósł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;swój laptop&lt;/span&gt;, aby pokazać nam &lt;span class="hps"&gt;część zdjęć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wziął&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;natomiast&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Powiedział, że to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wciąż bardzo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przygnębiony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kraju&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niektórych wsiach&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;całkowicie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pusta, chociaż&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gdzie przebywał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miasto było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobrze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zaludnione i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyżywieniem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla turystów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;angielskim i niemieckim.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Później&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poszliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zrobić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;małe zakupy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żywności&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tydzień w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszym supermarkecie&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pełen ludzi&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;główny powód&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nienawiści&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sklepu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w sobotę&lt;/span&gt;, ale tym razem &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był on koniecznością&lt;/span&gt;, bo &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zostawili&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żywności w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;domu, zanim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nasze wakacje&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po prawej stronie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tego bloga&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;with Love&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;serii&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Strybel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rob&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wideo&lt;/span&gt;, dziennikarz &lt;span class="hps"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pisarz,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Amerykanin mieszkający&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Expat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Warszawie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez długi czas&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wysłał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;informacje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;współczesnym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2364648799879233664?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2364648799879233664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2364648799879233664&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2364648799879233664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2364648799879233664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-shopping.html' title='Saturday shopping.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4760577763104024182</id><published>2012-01-06T07:44:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T07:47:06.144-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Home again.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ym2S8tLT5cw/Twb0RKhIr6I/AAAAAAAAd68/BmoMKo2r-Gk/s1600/IMG_9566.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ym2S8tLT5cw/Twb0RKhIr6I/AAAAAAAAd68/BmoMKo2r-Gk/s320/IMG_9566.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Joan and her kids, Karen and Joey&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j21RdcLQvxA/Twb0VGy3BtI/AAAAAAAAd7E/HG8z7FAg0ao/s1600/IMG_9570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j21RdcLQvxA/Twb0VGy3BtI/AAAAAAAAd7E/HG8z7FAg0ao/s320/IMG_9570.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JSUk8OfOLFM/Twb0YM2k2UI/AAAAAAAAd7M/NoT79ItD2oU/s1600/IMG_9573.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JSUk8OfOLFM/Twb0YM2k2UI/AAAAAAAAd7M/NoT79ItD2oU/s320/IMG_9573.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I was up early, 6AM so I could say another goodbye to the grandkids before they went to school. Joan slept in but I was ready to leave early although we didn't go to the airport until 230PM.&amp;nbsp; The flight didn't leave until 5:30PM but we had to be there early to go through customs and check in.&amp;nbsp; This flight was booked early enough that I was able to get seats by the emergency exit for extra leg room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The flight was uneventful and we arrived in Warsaw at 9:15AM, waited an hour for the plane to Poznań, took a cab home and discovered that our flat had no heat in it and it was 15F inside, rather cold.&amp;nbsp; I tried to restart the heating unit to no avail and had to call Zbyszek for assistance.&amp;nbsp; He called a man who services our type of heater and an hour and a half later he arrived to replace a defaulty relay switch.&amp;nbsp; The heat is on now but it will take some time to warm the flat.&amp;nbsp; We're walking around in coats and hats now until the temperature rises enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We unpacked everything, put it all away and now we'e just waiting for the heat to rise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are glad we decided to go to America for this Christmas and see our kids, grandkids, my sister&amp;nbsp;and a few friends. We should have stayed a week longer to give us more opportunity to see people but this morning Joan and I both agreed it would be nice to be back home again. We feel like we just woke up from a Christmas dream.&amp;nbsp; We left for Chicago in a gray foggy day and returned to a drizzly day in Poznań.&amp;nbsp; When we left Chicago it was 43F and sunny.&amp;nbsp; We had good weather the whole time we were there and in North Carolina.&amp;nbsp; Of course, we're going to miss everyone again and don't know when or if we'll make a return trip in our future, only time will tell.&amp;nbsp; The day I rented the car and drove to my sisters in Indiana was very nice driving on four lane highways again with people actually going the speed limits and not having to drive defensively all the time. It's good to have friends like Mike and Mary who drove 8 hours just to spend a day with us.&amp;nbsp; We hope that our plan to meet in Dublin works out for us all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's good to be back home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span title="I was up early, 6AM so I could say another goodbye to the grandkids before they went to school."&gt;Byłem rano, 6 rano, więc mogłem powiedzieć innym pożegnanie wnuki, zanim poszedł do szkoły. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9;" title="Joan slept in but I was ready to leave early although we didn't go to the airport until 230PM."&gt;Joan spał, ale byłam gotowa wyjść wcześniej, chociaż nie jechać na lotnisko do 230PM. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The flight didn't leave until 5:30PM but we had to be there early to go through customs and check in. This flight was booked early enough that I was able to get seats by the emergency exit for extra leg room."&gt;Lot nie opuścił aż do 17:30, ale musimy być tam wcześnie, aby przejść przez odprawę celną i sprawdzić w ten lot został zarezerwowany na tyle wcześnie, że udało mi się uzyskać miejsca przez wyjście awaryjne, na dodatkowych nogi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The flight was uneventful and we arrived in Warsaw at 9:15AM, waited an hour for the plane to Poznań, took a cab home and discovered that our flat had no heat in it and it was 15F inside, rather cold."&gt;Lot był spokojny i przyjechaliśmy do Warszawy na 09:15, czekali godzinę na samolot do Poznania, wziął do domu kabiny i odkryli, że nasze mieszkanie nie miał ciepło w nim i było 15F wewnątrz, a zimno. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I tried to restart the heating unit to no avail and had to call Zbyszek for assistance."&gt;Próbowałem restart urządzenia grzewczego bez skutku i musiałem wezwać Zbyszka o pomoc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="He called a man who services our type of heater and an hour and a half later he arrived to replace a defaulty relay switch."&gt;Nazwał człowieka, który usług naszego rodzaju grzejnika i półtorej godziny później przybył do zastąpienia defaulty przełącznik przekaźnika. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The heat is on now but it will take some time to warm the flat."&gt;Ciepło to jest na teraz, ale to zajmie trochę czasu, aby ogrzać mieszkania. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We're walking around in coats and hats now until the temperature rises enough."&gt;Mamy chodzić w płaszcze i kapelusze teraz aż temperatura wzrośnie na tyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We unpacked everything, put it all away and now we'e just waiting for the heat to rise."&gt;Rozpakowaliśmy wszystko, to wszystko złożyć się i teraz we'e tylko czekają na ciepło wzrasta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We are glad we decided to go to America for this Christmas and see our kids, grandkids, my sister and a few friends."&gt;Cieszymy się, postanowiliśmy pojechać do Ameryki na to Boże Narodzenie i na nasze dzieci, wnuki, moja siostra i kilku przyjaciół. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We should have stayed a week longer to give us more opportunity to see people but this morning Joan and I both agreed it would be nice to be back home again."&gt;Powinniśmy mieć pozostał tydzień dłużej, by dać nam więcej możliwości, aby zobaczyć ludzi, ale dziś rano Joan i zgodzili się, że miło być powrotem do domu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We feel like we just woke up from a Christmas dream."&gt;Czujemy się jak właśnie obudził się ze snu Bożego Narodzenia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We left for Chicago in a gray foggy day and returned to a drizzly day in Poznań."&gt;Mamy wyjechał do Chicago w szary dzień mglisty i wrócił do dnia drizzly w Poznaniu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="When we left Chicago it was 43F and sunny."&gt;Kiedy wyszliśmy z Chicago było 43F i słoneczny. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We had good weather the whole time we were there and in North Carolina."&gt;Mieliśmy dobrą pogodę przez cały czas byliśmy tam i w Północnej Karolinie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Of course, we're going to miss everyone again and don't know when or if we'll make a return trip in our future, only time will tell."&gt;Oczywiście, zamierzamy przegapić wszystkich ponownie i nie wiem kiedy i czy zrobimy powrót w przyszłości, czas pokaże. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The day I rented the car and drove to my sisters in Indiana was very nice driving on four lane highways again with people actually going the speed limits and not having to drive defensively all the time."&gt;Dnia wynająłem samochód i pojechałem do siostry w Indianie było bardzo miłe jazdy na czterech pasa autostrady ponownie z osób faktycznie będzie ograniczenia prędkości, a nie konieczności jazdy defensywnie cały czas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It's good to have friends like Mike and Mary who drove 8 hours just to spend a day with us."&gt;Dobrze jest mieć przyjaciół, jak Mike i Mary który jechał 8 godzin tylko na spędzenie dnia z nami. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We hope that our plan to meet in Dublin works out for us all."&gt;Mamy nadzieję, że nasz plan na spotkanie w Dublinie pracuje obecnie dla nas wszystkich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It's good to be back home."&gt;Dobrze jest wrócić do domu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4760577763104024182?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4760577763104024182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4760577763104024182&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7429621902602846169</id><published>2012-01-04T22:08:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:26:35.265-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Last Day in Chicago</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5E2vhmjU1GU/TwiN_F5SuwI/AAAAAAAAefg/4ujkY1BNPkw/s1600/IMG_9563.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5E2vhmjU1GU/TwiN_F5SuwI/AAAAAAAAefg/4ujkY1BNPkw/s320/IMG_9563.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HXksV9KnmOc/TwiOHBf_Y4I/AAAAAAAAefo/rFgtO25konM/s1600/IMG_9561.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HXksV9KnmOc/TwiOHBf_Y4I/AAAAAAAAefo/rFgtO25konM/s320/IMG_9561.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0l4futXaRwM/TwiOKgegByI/AAAAAAAAefw/dmAtb1SELSc/s1600/IMG_9559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0l4futXaRwM/TwiOKgegByI/AAAAAAAAefw/dmAtb1SELSc/s320/IMG_9559.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The last full day of vacation in Chicago was spent with Karen and the grandkids who took a day off from school to be with us.&amp;nbsp; After sleeping in until 11AM we went to one of our old favorite places, Baker's Square.d&amp;nbsp; It's a restaurant that is known for excellent pies as well as food.&amp;nbsp; We had breakfast/lunch there and pies for dessert afterward.&amp;nbsp; We went back to Karen's house where Joan's son, Joey, came to say goodbye to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 7PM I had a surprise call from my sister Tami who told me I had to come back to Indiana before I left because she was going through old boxes she had from our father and in them were dozens of photos we had never seen before.&amp;nbsp; She wanted me to come and take them but It wasn't possible now because there is no time left for such a trip.&amp;nbsp; She promised she would look through them and FEDEX the pictures to me back in Poland where I will scan them and then return the originals to her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is very exciting new for me because it finally opens up my fathers side of the family for me to explore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow we take the plane back to Poland with more mixed feelings then when we first left America four years ago. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ostatni pełny dzień urlopu w Chicago spędził z Karen i wnuków, którzy wzięli dzień wolny od szkoły, aby być z nami. Po spania, aż 11am poszliśmy do jednego z naszych starych miejsc ulubionych, Baker Square.d Jest to restauracja, która znana jest z doskonałych ciast, jak i żywności. Mieliśmy śniadanie / obiad i ciasto na deser później. Wróciliśmy do domu Karen, gdzie syn Joanny, Joey, przyszedł pożegnać się z nami.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;W godzina dziewiętnasta miałem połączenia niespodzianka od mojej siostry, która Tami powiedział mi, że musiałem wrócić do Indiany przed wyjazdem, bo przechodził przez stare pudełka miała od ojca, a na nich dziesiątki zdjęć nigdy wcześniej nie widziałem. Chciała, żebym i zabrać je, ale nie było możliwe, ponieważ teraz nie ma czasu na taki wyjazd. Obiecała będzie wyglądać za ich pośrednictwem i FedEx zdjęcia do mnie z powrotem w Polska, gdzie będę je skanować, a następnie powrót oryginały do niej.&lt;br /&gt;To jest bardzo ekscytujące dla mnie nowe, bo w końcu otwiera mojej strony ojców rodziny dla mnie do zbadania.&lt;br /&gt;Jutro bierzemy samolot powrotny do Polska z bardziej mieszane uczucia wtedy, kiedy pierwszy raz w lewo Ameryki cztery lata temu.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7429621902602846169?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7429621902602846169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7429621902602846169&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7429621902602846169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7429621902602846169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-day-in-chicago.html' title='Last Day in Chicago'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5E2vhmjU1GU/TwiN_F5SuwI/AAAAAAAAefg/4ujkY1BNPkw/s72-c/IMG_9563.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-9024693215886045926</id><published>2012-01-03T22:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T22:24:31.138-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Two visits.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QZb--2_PZw0/TwPReKjnbdI/AAAAAAAAdw4/jQSZerPGMy8/s1600/day6+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QZb--2_PZw0/TwPReKjnbdI/AAAAAAAAdw4/jQSZerPGMy8/s320/day6+006.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j1z0VEdRLSs/TwPRi0nZhSI/AAAAAAAAdxA/0cbwsgIL99Q/s1600/day6+028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j1z0VEdRLSs/TwPRi0nZhSI/AAAAAAAAdxA/0cbwsgIL99Q/s320/day6+028.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4R9ivMZpo5I/TwPRmsXCtTI/AAAAAAAAdxI/wUsTY6JVaN0/s1600/day6+030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4R9ivMZpo5I/TwPRmsXCtTI/AAAAAAAAdxI/wUsTY6JVaN0/s320/day6+030.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My sister, her husband and daughter.&lt;/div&gt;We had an excellent vist with our friends from Upper Michigan.&amp;nbsp; They arrived about 11AM and we went out to breakfast with them, talked about what has happened in the last four years for each of us and then went back to Karen's house for more coversation.&amp;nbsp; About 5PM they left for Wisconsin where they spent the night before going back to Michigan.&amp;nbsp; It was great seeing the again and we made a&amp;nbsp;tentative plan to meet in Dublin this year for a trip through Ireland and&amp;nbsp; Scotland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next morning we rented a car and drove to Indiana so&amp;nbsp;I could see my sister again after this four year absence.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way there I stopped at the family cemetery to see the graves of my Kazmierczak grandparents and to clear away the leaves.&amp;nbsp; It's a pity the way cemeteries are kept in this place.&amp;nbsp; The grave stones have sunk and no one is left here to care properly for them.&amp;nbsp; It's not at all like in Poland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My sister looked great and her daughter was home also so I got to see her again along with her father.&amp;nbsp; In true Polish form, as soon as we arruved she served lunch and then homemade pierogi's.&amp;nbsp; What a treat.&amp;nbsp; We talked forr a wille about our father and then we discovered a picture behind an old picture of my father that she didn't kniow was there.&amp;nbsp; It was just a duplicate copy but she didn't know it was there so she gave the second one to me to keep.&amp;nbsp; It was a nice surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A not so nice surprise was to find out how much the toll charges have gone up on road.&amp;nbsp; When we were last here it was 45 cents and now the&amp;nbsp; cost is $1.50.&amp;nbsp; Absolutely ridiculou9s.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-9024693215886045926?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/9024693215886045926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=9024693215886045926&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/9024693215886045926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/9024693215886045926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/two-visits.html' title='Two visits.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QZb--2_PZw0/TwPReKjnbdI/AAAAAAAAdw4/jQSZerPGMy8/s72-c/day6+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4874515381724250647</id><published>2012-01-02T08:22:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T08:25:20.053-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New Years Day-Chicago</title><content type='html'>So, New Year's eve passed quietly into the new year of 2012 and I made no resolutions for the coming year.&amp;nbsp; Whatever happens, happens!!!&amp;nbsp; Joan and I know what we&amp;nbsp; would like to do in this year and we'll just see if it is possible without making a resolution that is usually not kept anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day wasn't too bad, we did get the see the Bears finally win a game and the B ulls had a crushing defeat of their opponent so sports wise, it was a good day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary called and said they would arrive between 10 and 11 AM to visit with us.&amp;nbsp; We have known Mike and Mary for some 34 years when I first bought property in Michigan.&amp;nbsp; It's an 9 hour drive from Michigan to where we are staying so we really appreciate them taking the time and trouble to come and see us.&amp;nbsp; If we had stayed for another week, I would have gone back to the U.P. to visit for a few days but time doesn't allow it now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tak więc, w sylwestra przeszła spokojnie do nowego roku 2012 i nie zrobiłem uchwał na nadchodzący rok. Cokolwiek się dzieje, dzieje się! Joan i wiem, co chcielibyśmy zrobić w tym roku i musimy po prostu sprawdzić, czy jest możliwe bez rezolucji, która zwykle nie jest przechowywane w każdym razie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dni nie było tak źle, mieliśmy dostać zobaczyć Bears w końcu wygrać mecz i ulls B miał miażdżąca klęska przeciwnika tak sportowych mądry, to był dobry dzień.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maria, zwana i zapowiedział, że przyjazd pomiędzy 10 i 11 AM do odwiedzenia z nami. Znamy Mike i Mary za około 34 lat, kiedy pierwszy kupił nieruchomość w stanie Michigan. To 9 godziny jazdy od Michigan do miejsca, gdzie przebywają tak naprawdę doceniamy ich poświęcenie czasu i trudu, by przyjść i zobaczyć nas. Gdybyśmy zostali na kolejny tydzień, bym wrócił do UP odwiedzić na kilka dni, ale czas nie pozwala na to teraz.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4874515381724250647?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4874515381724250647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4874515381724250647&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4874515381724250647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4874515381724250647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-years-day-chicago.html' title='New Years Day-Chicago'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-8815946911380974823</id><published>2012-01-01T10:16:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T10:18:43.645-06:00</updated><title type='text'>2011 New Years Eve.</title><content type='html'>New Year's Eve was spent quietly at Karen's house.&amp;nbsp; We were going to go to a party but Karen and her son Joe are getting colds and not not feeling well enough to party so we stayed home with them.&amp;nbsp; It didn't stop Nikki from going because she was looking forward to it all week and couldn't be disappointed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier on this cold day, Karen, Joan and I went to Wal-mart, the super big store, to buy groceries, and other things.&amp;nbsp; While we were there I found 3 more pairs of blue jearns and they were on sale for ONLY$11 a pair.&amp;nbsp; I couldn't believe the price so I just had to buy them.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Imagine that, a pair of blue jeans for only $11&amp;nbsp; This store is so huge that it took me 45 mminutes to find Karen and Joan after we split up to do shopping seperately..&amp;nbsp; We should go back there once more before we leave so Joan can get some more clothes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After our shopping was done and lunch was had we went to the movies to see the new Tom Cruise "Mission Impossible". For me it was just another dumb movie with very little real acting and lots of "action" scenes.&amp;nbsp; The grandkids liked it so that was good enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow being Jan. 1st, we plan on watching a lot of American football on T.V. and most likely watching our Chicago Bears lose the last game of their 2011 season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sylwestra spędziłem spokojnie w domu Karen. Mieliśmy iść na imprezę, ale Karen i jej syn Joe stają się przeziębienia i nie nie czują się na tyle dobrze się bawić więc została w domu z nimi. To nie powstrzymało Nikki pisali, ponieważ była doczekać przez cały tydzień i nie mógł być zawiedziony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wcześniej na tej zimny dzień, Karen, Joan i udałem się do Wal-mart, super przechowywać duże, aby kupić artykuły spożywcze i inne rzeczy. Podczas gdy byliśmy tam znalazłem 3 więcej par niebieski jearns i były one w ofercie tylko 11 dolarów za parę. Nie mogłem uwierzyć, ceny, tak po prostu musiałem je kupić. Wyobraźmy sobie, że para jeansów tylko 11 dolarów Ten sklep jest tak ogromny, że zajęło mi 45 mminutes znaleźć Karen i Joan po tym jak się rozejdziemy do zakupów oddzielnie .. Musimy tam wrócić jeszcze raz przed wyjazdem tak Joan może trochę więcej ubrań.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Po naszych sklepów została wykonana i obiad był nie poszliśmy do kina, aby zobaczyć nowe Tom Cruise "Mission Impossible". Dla mnie to był tylko kolejny głupi film z bardzo mało realne działania i wiele "akcji" scen.Wnuki lubi to tak, że było wystarczająco dobre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jutro jest 01 stycznia, planujemy oglądać wiele futbolu amerykańskiego w telewizji i najprawdopodobniej oglądania naszej Chicago Bears przegrać ostatni mecz z ich sezon 2011.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-8815946911380974823?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/8815946911380974823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=8815946911380974823&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8815946911380974823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8815946911380974823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2012/01/2011-new-years-eve.html' title='2011 New Years Eve.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-220046247824666664</id><published>2011-12-31T09:08:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T09:10:06.437-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 1 Return to Chicago</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Kd4OR3aSr8/Tv8ikDUOdgI/AAAAAAAAdr0/AR5Z9oiX7eA/s1600/day5+chicago+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Kd4OR3aSr8/Tv8ikDUOdgI/AAAAAAAAdr0/AR5Z9oiX7eA/s320/day5+chicago+001.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vs1EczgRDgg/Tv8ilg1FNLI/AAAAAAAAdr8/c12zznwKYns/s1600/day5+chicago+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vs1EczgRDgg/Tv8ilg1FNLI/AAAAAAAAdr8/c12zznwKYns/s320/day5+chicago+002.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XrQaHY519IA/Tv8im0z0xtI/AAAAAAAAdsE/iyit8xzJFF8/s1600/day5+chicago+003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XrQaHY519IA/Tv8im0z0xtI/AAAAAAAAdsE/iyit8xzJFF8/s320/day5+chicago+003.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4MaBxYBRpXI/Tv8ioqMLJ2I/AAAAAAAAdsM/qIgKhe3uRyo/s1600/day5+chicago+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4MaBxYBRpXI/Tv8ioqMLJ2I/AAAAAAAAdsM/qIgKhe3uRyo/s320/day5+chicago+005.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-77dcEs9Oh7w/Tv8iqefaGnI/AAAAAAAAdsU/76hJ3WmQn-8/s1600/day5+chicago+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-77dcEs9Oh7w/Tv8iqefaGnI/AAAAAAAAdsU/76hJ3WmQn-8/s320/day5+chicago+006.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Up at 8AM to get ready to fly to Chicago, our last flighrt before we return home to Poland.&amp;nbsp; Eric was up makiing an omelet breakfast with potatoes and after we were done it was off to the airport for our 11:30 flight.&amp;nbsp; Saying goodbye to Eric was hard, I don't know when we'll see each other again but I hope it won't&amp;nbsp; be as long as before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The flight was only two hours long and we&amp;nbsp; returned to a rainy, foggy, damy and chilly weather in Chicago.&amp;nbsp; It was just the opposite two hours ago when we left North Carollina.&amp;nbsp; Karen picked us up at the airport, we picked up the grandkids and went to have lunch.&amp;nbsp; Later in the evening we watched T.V. and I thought about my brief visit with my son and how much it was worth the price of this trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;W górę o 8 rano, aby przygotować się na lot do Chicago, nasz ostatni flighrt zanim wrócimy do domu Polska. Eric był do makiing śniadanie omlet z ziemniakami i po tym, jak zrobić to się na lotnisko dla naszych 11:30 lotu. Pożegnanie Eric było ciężko, nie wiem, kiedy będziemy się znowu, ale mam nadzieję, że nie będzie tak długo, jak wcześniej.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lot był tylko dwóch godzin i wróciliśmy do deszczowy, mglisty, Damy i chłodna pogoda w Chicago. Było wręcz przeciwnie dwie godziny temu, kiedy wyjechaliśmy Północnej Carollina. Karen zabrał nas na lotnisko, podniósł wnuki i udał się na obiad. Wieczorem oglądaliśmy TV i myślałem o mojej krótkiej wizyty z moim synem i ile to było warte ceny tego wyjazdu.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-220046247824666664?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/220046247824666664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=220046247824666664&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/220046247824666664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/220046247824666664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-1-return-to-chicago.html' title='Day 1 Return to Chicago'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Kd4OR3aSr8/Tv8ikDUOdgI/AAAAAAAAdr0/AR5Z9oiX7eA/s72-c/day5+chicago+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-3771070925641662445</id><published>2011-12-30T06:43:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:30:35.058-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Last day in N.C.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b0BA5C4ArMw/TwiPED6zeUI/AAAAAAAAef4/i5qvM_lvyDQ/s1600/IMG_9490.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b0BA5C4ArMw/TwiPED6zeUI/AAAAAAAAef4/i5qvM_lvyDQ/s320/IMG_9490.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--qrA8gEOlxk/TwiPK5_O58I/AAAAAAAAegA/UNtBIMS4SgQ/s1600/IMG_9491.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--qrA8gEOlxk/TwiPK5_O58I/AAAAAAAAegA/UNtBIMS4SgQ/s320/IMG_9491.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's the last day at my son's house. We spent it at home talking and watching Chef Eric make a delicioius filet mignon dinner.&amp;nbsp; The first time we've had a really good steak in years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The four days went by too quickly and now that's it's over it wasn't long enough.&amp;nbsp; We didn't do any sight seeing but that's OK because the only sight I really wanted to see was my son.&amp;nbsp; I have no idea when we will see each other again but I hope it will be possible in the future.&amp;nbsp; It was excellent meeting his partner Amy and her son, Ravedn.&amp;nbsp; He's 15 and going through the normal teenager things including changing his hair style which he did while we were here.&amp;nbsp; The finished product picture I will post tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the morning we will board our plane back to Chicago. I didn't have the chance to see cousin Duane but I talked with him on the phone for a little while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To ostatni dzień w moim synem w domu. Spędziliśmy go w domu, rozmawiać i oglądać Chef Eric dokonać deliccioius obiad filet mignon. Po raz pierwszy mieliśmy naprawdę dobry stek w roku.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cztery dni mijały zbyt szybko i teraz to już nad nim nie był wystarczająco długi. Nie robiliśmy żadnych zwiedzania, ale to jest OK, bo tylko wzrok naprawdę chciałem zobaczyć był mój syn. Nie mam pojęcia, kiedy zobaczymy się znowu, ale mam nadzieję, że będzie możliwe w przyszłości. To było wspaniałe spotkanie jego Amy partnera i jej syna, Raven. Jest 15 i przechodzi przez normalne rzeczy nastolatek w tym zmiana jego fryzury, które czynił, gdy byliśmy tutaj. Gotowy obraz produktu mogę napisać jutro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rano na pokład naszego samolotu do Chicago. Nie miałem okazję zobaczyć kuzyna Duane ale rozmawiałem z nim przez telefon na chwilę.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-3771070925641662445?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/3771070925641662445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=3771070925641662445&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3771070925641662445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3771070925641662445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/last-day-in-nc.html' title='Last day in N.C.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b0BA5C4ArMw/TwiPED6zeUI/AAAAAAAAef4/i5qvM_lvyDQ/s72-c/IMG_9490.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-5000450935730112098</id><published>2011-12-28T16:20:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T16:22:40.711-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 3-N.C.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HBR6fDd9h_Y/TvuUynCI2OI/AAAAAAAAdpU/mx2jAFeyTEc/s1600/Day+3-NC+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HBR6fDd9h_Y/TvuUynCI2OI/AAAAAAAAdpU/mx2jAFeyTEc/s320/Day+3-NC+001.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aO0JJANZGPk/TvuU2BGRoZI/AAAAAAAAdpc/0BPSMWyFUPg/s1600/Day+3-NC+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aO0JJANZGPk/TvuU2BGRoZI/AAAAAAAAdpc/0BPSMWyFUPg/s320/Day+3-NC+002.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YGqXfasj-KE/TvuU4-gj43I/AAAAAAAAdpk/2o_5lWl-Ssc/s1600/Day+3-NC+003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YGqXfasj-KE/TvuU4-gj43I/AAAAAAAAdpk/2o_5lWl-Ssc/s320/Day+3-NC+003.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BtDQ8vc6vAI/TvuU8ndfgpI/AAAAAAAAdps/ZW6GLhe1Yy0/s1600/Day+3-NC+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BtDQ8vc6vAI/TvuU8ndfgpI/AAAAAAAAdps/ZW6GLhe1Yy0/s320/Day+3-NC+004.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our third day in N.C. we spent talking more and doing a little shopping for food for dinner.&amp;nbsp; The weather is like spring, 50F, sunny and clear skies.&amp;nbsp; Finally I got some pictures taken of Eric and I and will do ore later on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I posted some pictures earlier of cousins who informed me they didn't want them on the internet so I have removed them.&amp;nbsp; Thank you Anna for telling me.&amp;nbsp; I should have asked before I posted them. Please excuse my error.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Trzeciego dnia pobytu w NC spędziliśmy więcej rozmawiać i robią małe zakupy żywności na obiad. Pogoda jest jak wiosna, niebo 50F, słoneczna. Na koniec mam kilka zdjęć zrobionych z Eric i ja i zrobi rudy później.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zamieściłem kilka zdjęć wcześniej kuzynów, którzy poinformowali mnie, że nie chcą ich w internecie, więc muszę usunąć je. Dziękujemy Anna za poinformowanie mnie. Bym poprosił zanim je zamieściły. Przepraszam mój błąd.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-5000450935730112098?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/5000450935730112098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=5000450935730112098&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5000450935730112098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5000450935730112098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-3-nc.html' title='Day 3-N.C.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HBR6fDd9h_Y/TvuUynCI2OI/AAAAAAAAdpU/mx2jAFeyTEc/s72-c/Day+3-NC+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-6376374472680089140</id><published>2011-12-28T07:27:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:33:27.030-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 2-N.C.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LbU4-x6vyj0/TwiPz5T2-vI/AAAAAAAAegI/bAdU44Wb6gM/s1600/IMG_9459.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LbU4-x6vyj0/TwiPz5T2-vI/AAAAAAAAegI/bAdU44Wb6gM/s320/IMG_9459.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--f5xh6AgOHs/TwiP2xdWD4I/AAAAAAAAegQ/taKAbde3uDc/s1600/IMG_9463.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--f5xh6AgOHs/TwiP2xdWD4I/AAAAAAAAegQ/taKAbde3uDc/s320/IMG_9463.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Spent most of the sitting in the flat and talking, watching T.V. and waiting for Amy's son, Raven, to get home.&amp;nbsp; It started raining early in the morning so not the best weather day although the temperature was about 40F so not cold at all.&amp;nbsp; Finally, about 5PM we decided to go to the Saigon restaurant in Charlotte for dinner.&amp;nbsp; We haven't had chinese food for some time and tonight Joan and I both had sesame chicken with egg rolls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a dog in the flat. They have a 7 month old Doberman and she is like a little baby that just want's to play all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's quite a feeling seeing our kids again after so many years apart.&amp;nbsp; Of course, we've all changed physically, gotten a little older, &amp;nbsp;but the way a parent feels about his/her child doesn't change.&amp;nbsp; At least, not for Jooan and I.&amp;nbsp; For me, I think this time it will be harder to leave again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spędził większość siedzi w mieszkaniu i rozmawiać, oglądanie telewizji i czeka na syna Amy, Raven, wrócić do domu. Zaczęło padać wcześnie rano, więc nie najlepszy dzień pogoda choć temperatura wynosiła około -40 nie tak zimno. Wreszcie, około godzina siedemnasta postanowiliśmy pojechać do Saigon restauracji w Charlotte na kolację. Nie mieliśmy chińskie jedzenie przez jakiś czas i dzisiaj Joan i ja się sezam z kurczaka z rolki jaj.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nie jest to pies w mieszkaniu. Mają 7 miesięcy stary Doberman, a ona jest jak dziecko, które po prostu chcą, by grać cały czas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jest to dość uczucie widząc nasze dzieci znowu po tylu latach od siebie. Oczywiście, wszyscy mamy zmienić fizycznie, zdobyć trochę starszy, ale sposób rodzic czuje się o jego / jej dziecka nie ulega zmianie. W dleast nie dla Jooan i I. Dla mnie, myślę, że tym razem będzie trudniej opuścić.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-6376374472680089140?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/6376374472680089140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=6376374472680089140&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6376374472680089140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6376374472680089140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-2-nc.html' title='Day 2-N.C.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LbU4-x6vyj0/TwiPz5T2-vI/AAAAAAAAegI/bAdU44Wb6gM/s72-c/IMG_9459.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-2317715612341107892</id><published>2011-12-27T08:23:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T16:10:37.094-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 1 in North Carollina</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fmEJ3eCl1AU/TvuTqX_t0yI/AAAAAAAAdo4/AjTakfcw7u8/s1600/DAY+1+nc+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fmEJ3eCl1AU/TvuTqX_t0yI/AAAAAAAAdo4/AjTakfcw7u8/s320/DAY+1+nc+006.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0iZ2SObGtC0/TvuTtC91c6I/AAAAAAAAdpA/y23fT7Cr10s/s1600/DAY+1+nc+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0iZ2SObGtC0/TvuTtC91c6I/AAAAAAAAdpA/y23fT7Cr10s/s320/DAY+1+nc+005.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZjHi7wcJNDE/TvuTwOD71aI/AAAAAAAAdpI/njYMMjvtaSk/s1600/DAY+1+nc+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZjHi7wcJNDE/TvuTwOD71aI/AAAAAAAAdpI/njYMMjvtaSk/s320/DAY+1+nc+004.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Day 1 in North Carolina started out in Chicago at 5AM getting up and making ready to go to the airport for our flight at 9AM.&amp;nbsp; We arrived at the airport at 7:30 and waited for our plane.&amp;nbsp; We dhad to fly to Georgia, change plandes and then a 30 minute flight to Charlotte.&amp;nbsp; We got in at 3PM and had a short wait for Eric to arrive to pick us up.&amp;nbsp; A short drive and we were in their apartment where dinner was made by Amy.&amp;nbsp; After dinner we sat and talked until 10:30PM and then went to bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_ajajqg="168" id="result_box" lang="pl" pc="null"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="106" pc="null"&gt;Dzień 1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="107" pc="null"&gt;w Północnej Karolinie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="108" pc="null"&gt;rozpoczęła się w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="109" pc="null"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="110" pc="null"&gt;o 5 rano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="111" pc="null"&gt;wstaje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="112" pc="null"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="113" pc="null"&gt;szykuje się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="114" pc="null"&gt;iść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="115" pc="null"&gt;na lotnisko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="116" pc="null"&gt;nasz lot&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="117" pc="null"&gt;od 9 rano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ajajqg="118" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="119" pc="null"&gt;Przyjechaliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="120" pc="null"&gt;na lotnisku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="121" pc="null"&gt;o 7:30 i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="122" pc="null"&gt;czekali na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="123" pc="null"&gt;nasz samolot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ajajqg="124" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="125" pc="null"&gt;Mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="126" pc="null"&gt;dhad&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="127" pc="null"&gt;lecieć do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="128" pc="null"&gt;Gruzji,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="129" pc="null"&gt;plandes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="130" pc="null"&gt;zmienić, a następnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="131" pc="null"&gt;30 minut lotu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="132" pc="null"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="133" pc="null"&gt;Charlotte.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="134" pc="null"&gt;Mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="135" pc="null"&gt;w co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="136" pc="null"&gt;godzina piętnasta&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="137" pc="null"&gt;i miał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="138" pc="null"&gt;krótki czas oczekiwania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="139" pc="null"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="140" pc="null"&gt;Eric&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="141" pc="null"&gt;przyjechać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="142" pc="null"&gt;odebrać nas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ajajqg="143" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ajajqg="144" pc="null"&gt;Minut jazdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="145" pc="null"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="146" pc="null"&gt;jesteśmy w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="147" pc="null"&gt;ich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="148" pc="null"&gt;mieszkaniu, gdzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="149" pc="null"&gt;obiad był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="150" pc="null"&gt;przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="151" pc="null"&gt;Amy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="152" pc="null"&gt;Po kolacji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="153" pc="null"&gt;siedzieliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="154" pc="null"&gt;i rozmawialiśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="155" pc="null"&gt;aż do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="156" pc="null"&gt;22:30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ajajqg="157" pc="null"&gt;, a następnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ajajqg="158" pc="null"&gt;poszedł do łóżka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ajajqg="159" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2317715612341107892?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2317715612341107892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2317715612341107892&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2317715612341107892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2317715612341107892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-1-in-north-carollina.html' title='Day 1 in North Carollina'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fmEJ3eCl1AU/TvuTqX_t0yI/AAAAAAAAdo4/AjTakfcw7u8/s72-c/DAY+1+nc+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4265774702816923280</id><published>2011-12-27T07:38:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-27T07:43:12.049-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 4 Christmas Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vsPcSYbPU-Q/TvnFdZuG44I/AAAAAAAAdW8/RlYIY3OV01w/s1600/day3+073.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vsPcSYbPU-Q/TvnFdZuG44I/AAAAAAAAdW8/RlYIY3OV01w/s320/day3+073.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Christmas day started off with present opening and it took a kong time.&amp;nbsp; The kids were woke up at 10AM and halk an hour later wee started with the presents.&amp;nbsp; AIt lasted until 11:30 when it was time to start cooking and getting dinner ready for 2PM.&amp;nbsp; Dinner was a combination of lasagnia and ham with potatoes, brocolli, green beans and three different kinds of pies for dessert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The grandkids other grandparents came for dinner as well as Joan's son Joey's girlfriend with her son so we had a total of twelve people for dinner.&amp;nbsp; After dinner conversations there were basketball and football games to watch later so we just spent the rest of the time talking during the games and then finally in the evening Joan and I prepared for our trip to North Carolina to see my son Eric and meet his lady, Amy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boże Narodzenie zaczął się z obecnego otwarcia i trzeba było czasu kong. Dzieci były obudził się o godzinie 10 i Halk godziny później wee rozpoczął się prezentuje. AIT trwał do 11:30, kiedy nadszedł czas, aby rozpocząć gotowanie i coraz obiad gotowy do godzina czternasta. Kolacja była połączeniem lasagnia i szynka z ziemniakami, brokuły, zielona fasola i trzy rodzaje ciasta na deser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wnuki innych dziadków na obiad, jak i dziewczyny Joan syn Joey'a z synem, więc musieliśmy w sumie dwanaście osób na kolację. Po rozmowach kolacji nie było koszykówki i piłki nożnej gier do obejrzenia później tak właśnie spędziłem resztę czasu na rozmowy w trakcie gry i wreszcie wieczorem Joan i ja przygotowaliśmy dla naszych podróż do Północnej Karoliny, aby zobaczyć mojego syna Erica i spotkać się z panią , Amy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4265774702816923280?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4265774702816923280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4265774702816923280&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4265774702816923280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4265774702816923280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-4-christmas-day.html' title='Day 4 Christmas Day'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9wA0oFviUuo/TvnFImj9hMI/AAAAAAAAdWQ/KtFvcDWCHEQ/s72-c/day3+075.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-3558642865359854817</id><published>2011-12-25T08:21:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:39:36.319-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 3 Christmas Eve.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rtvwzgZe0uY/TwiRIWBWxjI/AAAAAAAAego/oTPd_MFH1RQ/s1600/IMG_9374.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rtvwzgZe0uY/TwiRIWBWxjI/AAAAAAAAego/oTPd_MFH1RQ/s320/IMG_9374.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hgjgYOMWvqM/TwiRQxKFz0I/AAAAAAAAegw/28PPArVK9bo/s1600/IMG_9349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hgjgYOMWvqM/TwiRQxKFz0I/AAAAAAAAegw/28PPArVK9bo/s320/IMG_9349.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Christmas eve is over and I found myself with mixed emotions as is ended. &amp;nbsp;The day, itsself, was a good weather day but no snow was to fall for the Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Across the street from Karen's house a young soldier was coming back home from Iraq and there was a great celebration going on for the soldier from his friend and relatives. &amp;nbsp;What a great present for his parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen and Joan went early to shop for the food for Christmas day and stayed home to play with the grandchildren. &amp;nbsp;Well, not really play with the grandchildren as to watch them play on computer games while we talked. &amp;nbsp;I can believe how much they have changed since we last saw them because they are right here in front of me but it is still amazing to me. &amp;nbsp;Nikki, I think has changed the most. &amp;nbsp;Not in physical sense, although that is true too, but in the maturity sense. She is so warm and friendly and easy to talk with, engages in conversation easily and a pleasure to be with. &amp;nbsp;It's going to be hard to leave them again but we did have a conversation with their parents and they agreed to send them to Poland as a graduation present when they leave high school. &amp;nbsp;For Joseph, that's three and a half years and for Nikki, five and and a half years.l &amp;nbsp;I don't know if I can wait that long to see them again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all the shopping was done and everyone was home again, Joan and Karen starting preparing the evening meal and Nikki and I finished decorating the tree with ornaments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Standing alone in the living room with the tree and looking outside I couldn't &amp;nbsp;help myself from searching the sky for the first star although I knew tonight it would not have the same meaning for me as it did before. &amp;nbsp;Tonight would definitely not be a Poilsh Wigilia night and secretly, inside my heart, I missed that. &amp;nbsp;Spaghetti for Christmas eve is not quite the same as Wigilia. Nevertheless it didn't stop the feeling of Christmas, being with Karen, Virgil, Nikki and Joseph again so it was still special. &amp;nbsp;Later, after dinner when it was time to go to mass, Nikki changed clothes and wore a beautiful dress and looked great. &amp;nbsp;The mass was a Lutheran mass so a little different than we are use to and certainly all being in English, totally understandable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally back home at 12:30PM we just all said goodnight and went to bed to wait for Santa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Christmas eve is over and I found myself with mixed emotions as is ended."&gt;Boże Narodzenie jest ponad i znalazłem się z mieszanymi uczuciami, jak kończy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="The day, itsself, was a good weather day but no snow was to fall for the Christmas."&gt;Dzień, itsself, był dobry dzień pogoda, ale nie śniegu spadnie na Boże Narodzenie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Across the street from Karen's house a young soldier was coming back home from Iraq and there was a great celebration going on for the soldier from his friend and relatives."&gt;Po drugiej stronie ulicy od domu Karen młody żołnierz wracał do domu z Iraku i nie było wielkie święto trwa od żołnierza z jego przyjacielem i krewnym.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="What a great present for his parents."&gt;Co za wspaniały prezent dla swoich rodziców.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Karen and Joan went early to shop for the food for Christmas day and stayed home to play with the grandchildren."&gt;Karen i Joan poszła już do zakupów żywności na dzień Bożego Narodzenia i został w domu bawić się z wnukami.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Well, not really play with the grandchildren as to watch them play on computer games while we talked."&gt;No nie, naprawdę bawić się z wnukami, aby oglądać je grać na grach komputerowych, a my rozmawialiśmy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="I can believe how much they have changed since we last saw them because they are right here in front of me but it is still amazing to me."&gt;Mogę uwierzyć, jak bardzo zmieniły się od ostatniego widział ich, ponieważ są tu przede mną, ale wciąż jest dla mnie zadziwiające.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Nikki, I think has changed the most."&gt;Nikki, myślę, że zmienił się najbardziej.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Not in physical sense, although that is true too, but in the maturity sense."&gt;Nie w sensie fizycznym, chociaż to prawda też, ale w sensie dojrzałości.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="She is so warm and friendly and easy to talk with, engages in conversation easily and a pleasure to be with."&gt;Ona jest tak ciepły i przyjazny i łatwy w rozmowie z, angażuje się w rozmowie z łatwością i przyjemnością być.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="It's going to be hard to leave them again but we did have a conversation with their parents and they agreed to send them to Poland as a graduation present when they leave high school."&gt;To będzie trudne, zostawić je ponownie, ale mieliśmy rozmowy z rodzicami, a oni zgodzili się wysłać je do Polska jako prezent ukończeniu studiów, gdy opuszczają szkołę.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="For Joseph, that's three and a half years and for Nikki, five and and a half years.l I don't know if I can wait that long to see them again."&gt;Dla Józefa, trzech i pół roku i Nikki, pięć i pół years.l i nie wiem czy mogę się doczekać, aby zobaczyć je ponownie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="After all the shopping was done and everyone was home again, Joan and Karen starting preparing the evening meal and Nikki and I finished decorating the tree with ornaments."&gt;Po wszystkich sklepów stało i wszyscy do domu, Joan i Karen począwszy od przygotowania kolacji i Nikki i skończyłem zdobiące drzewa z ornamentami.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Standing alone in the living room with the tree and looking outside I couldn't help myself from searching the sky for the first star although I knew tonight it would not have the same meaning for me as it did before."&gt;Stojącego samotnie w salonie z drzewem i patrząc na zewnątrz nie mogłem się powstrzymać od szukania na niebie pierwszej gwiazdki, chociaż wiedziałem, dzisiaj nie byłoby takie samo znaczenie dla mnie, jak przed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Tonight would definitely not be a Poilsh Wigilia night and secretly, inside my heart, I missed that."&gt;Dziś z pewnością nie będzie Poilsh nocy Wigilia i skrycie, w moim sercu, brakowało mi tego.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Spaghetti for Christmas eve is not quite the same as Wigilia."&gt;Spaghetti na Boże Narodzenie nie jest to samo, jak Wigilia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Nevertheless it didn't stop the feeling of Christmas, being with Karen, Virgil, Nikki and Joseph again so it was still special."&gt;Niemniej jednak nie powstrzymało to uczucie Bożego Narodzenia, jest z Karen, Virgil, Nikki i Józef znowu tak było jeszcze specjalne.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Later, after dinner when it was time to go to mass, Nikki changed clothes and wore a beautiful dress and looked great."&gt;Później, po kolacji, kiedy nadszedł czas, aby przejść do masy, Nikki przebrałem i nosił piękną sukienkę i wyglądała świetnie.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="The mass was a Lutheran mass so a little different than we are use to and certainly all being in English, totally understandable."&gt;Masa była msza luterańska więc nieco inaczej niż jesteśmy do użycia i na pewno wszystko jest w języku angielskim, całkowicie zrozumiałe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Finally back home at 12:30PM we just all said goodnight and went to bed to wait for Santa."&gt;Wreszcie powrót do domu o 12:30 po prostu wszyscy mówili dobranoc i poszedł spać czekać na Santa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-3558642865359854817?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/3558642865359854817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=3558642865359854817&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3558642865359854817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3558642865359854817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-3-christmas-eve.html' title='Day 3 Christmas Eve.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rtvwzgZe0uY/TwiRIWBWxjI/AAAAAAAAego/oTPd_MFH1RQ/s72-c/IMG_9374.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7142414509591280738</id><published>2011-12-24T08:58:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:36:54.430-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 2-Chicago</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BABScgh65Vs/TwiQiNZzc1I/AAAAAAAAegY/ab2L8av_rRI/s1600/IMG_9327.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BABScgh65Vs/TwiQiNZzc1I/AAAAAAAAegY/ab2L8av_rRI/s320/IMG_9327.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-742oEOF7hBw/TwiQop3w9oI/AAAAAAAAegg/Y6JBtNtgrcI/s1600/IMG_9345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-742oEOF7hBw/TwiQop3w9oI/AAAAAAAAegg/Y6JBtNtgrcI/s320/IMG_9345.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;OK, I forgot to mention there is no snow in Chicago and it's unlikely before Christmas. &amp;nbsp;Also, the changes that were made to the Warsaw airport since four years ago are really nice. &amp;nbsp;You no longer have to walk outside to the International airport like before and the new facility is very modern with the usual amount of stores to buy anything you want before you leave Poland or to any city.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was shopping for clothes day so Joan, Karen, Nikki and I went to one of the huge shopping mall areas close buy to Joan's all time favorite store, J.C.Penny's to see what she could find. &amp;nbsp;I was happy to leave her in the care of her daughter and granddaughter and venture on my home to shop. It didn't take me long, in 45 minutes I had four pair of Levis, two pair of dress pants, 5 shirts, 3 pullovers and a new scarf. &amp;nbsp;The only thing I couldn't find were Isotoner gloves so maybe tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With her kids help, Joan found 3 Levis's, 3 tops, two skirts and a few other things she wanted so the day was a successful day of shopping for us both. &amp;nbsp;We had two Christmas presents to buy also and we found them with no problem. &amp;nbsp;Oh, and Joan found a new pair of shoes also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas eve we will spend at Karen's with her husband's sister coming over and then at 11PM we will go to church where Karen will also perform on the hand bells, Christmas Carols. &amp;nbsp;She has been a member of the hand bell group for about 6 years now and enjoys it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have had a great time with grand daughter Nikki and Joseph. &amp;nbsp;They have developed into such nice young adults and I really like the energy level of Nikki. &amp;nbsp;She took me to one of her favorites stores in the mall today, it sells Japanese candy and soft drinks and we bought both to try. &amp;nbsp;The soft drink has a lot of gas in it and too sweet because they use real sugar but it was a cool experience just sharing this with Nikki. &amp;nbsp;After that she said I just had to try her favorite food, a Pepperoni Pretzel. &amp;nbsp;It's a soft pretzel with pepperoni on it. &amp;nbsp;Sounds weird but it was good. &amp;nbsp;After we got home from shopping she and her mother wrapped some presents and I took these pictures of Day 2 in Chicago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="OK, I forgot to mention there is no snow in Chicago and it's unlikely before Christmas."&gt;OK, zapomniałem wspomnieć nie ma śniegu w Chicago i jest mało prawdopodobne przed świętami Bożego Narodzenia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Also, the changes that were made to the Warsaw airport since four years ago are really nice."&gt;Ponadto, zmiany wprowadzone do lotniska w Warszawie od czterech lat są naprawdę ładne.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="You no longer have to walk outside to the International airport like before and the new facility is very modern with the usual amount of stores to buy anything you want before you leave Poland or to any city."&gt;Nie trzeba już chodzić na zewnątrz do międzynarodowego portu lotniczego, jak i przed nowym zakładzie jest bardzo nowoczesna ze zwykłymi ilość sklepów kupić wszystko co chcesz przed wyjazdem Polska lub do miasta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Today was shopping for clothes day so Joan, Karen, Nikki and I went to one of the huge shopping mall areas close buy to Joan's all time favorite store, JCPenny's to see what she could find."&gt;Dzisiaj był dzień na zakupy ubrań tak Joan, Karen, Nikki i udałem się do jednej z ogromnych obszarów w pobliżu centrum handlowego kupić wszystkie ulubionego sklepu Joanny, JCPenny, aby zobaczyć, co udało jej się znaleźć.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="I was happy to leave her in the care of her daughter and granddaughter and venture on my home to shop."&gt;Byłem szczęśliwy, że ją zostawić pod opieką jej córki i wnuczki i venture w moim domu na zakupy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="It didn't take me long, in 45 minutes I had four pair of Levis, two pair of dress pants, 5 shirts, 3 pullovers and a new scarf."&gt;Nie trzeba było mnie długo, w 45 minut I miał cztery pary Levis, dwie pary spodni sukni, 5 koszulek, 3 swetry i nowy szalik.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="The only thing I couldn't find were Isotoner gloves so maybe tomorrow."&gt;Jedyną rzeczą, nie mogłem znaleźć były rękawice Isotoner więc może jutro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Withe3 her kids help, Joan found 3 Levis's, 3 tops, two skirts and a few other things she wanted so the day was a successful day of shopping for us both."&gt;Withe3 jej pomóc dzieciom, Joan znaleziono 3 w Levis, 3 szczyty, dwie spódnice i kilka innych rzeczy, chciała więc dzień był udany dzień na zakupy dla nas obu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="We had two Christmas presents to buy also and we found them with no problem."&gt;Mieliśmy dwa prezenty kupić też i znaleźliśmy je bez problemu.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Oh, and Joan found a new pair of shoes also."&gt;Aha, i Joan znalazł nowe buty też.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Christmas eve we will spend at Karen's with her husband's sister coming over and then at 11PM we will go to church where Karen will also perform on the hand bells, Christmas Carols."&gt;Wigilię spędzimy w Karen z mężem siostry przyjeżdżają, a następnie na godzina dwudziesta trzecia pójdziemy do kościoła, gdzie Karen przeprowadzi także na dzwonach strony kolęd.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="She has been a member of the hand bell group for about 6 years now and enjoys it."&gt;Była członkiem grupy dzwon strony przez około 6 lat i to cieszy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="I have had a great time with grand daughter Nikki and Joseph."&gt;Miałem wielki czas z wnuczka Nikki i Józefa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="They have developed into such nice young adults and I really like the energy level of Nikki."&gt;Opracowali oni w takich ładne młodych dorosłych i bardzo podoba mi się poziom energii Nikki.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="She took me to one of her favorites stores in the mall today, it sells Japanese candy and soft drinks and we bought both to try."&gt;Zabrała mnie do jednej z jej ulubionych sklepów w centrum handlowym dziś, że sprzedaje japońskie słodycze i napoje bezalkoholowe i kupiliśmy zarówno spróbować.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="The soft drink has a lot of gas in it and too sweet because they use real sugar but it was a cool experience just sharing this with Nikki."&gt;Napój ma dużo gazu w nim i zbyt słodkie, ponieważ korzystają one prawdziwym cukrem, ale to było fajne doświadczenie sprawiedliwy podział ten z Nikki.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="After that she said I just had to try her favorite food, a Pepperoni Pretzel."&gt;Po czym powiedział, że po prostu musiałem spróbować jej ulubione jedzenie, Pepperoni Pretzel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="It's a soft pretzel with pepperoni on it."&gt;Jest to miękki precel z pepperoni na jej temat.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Sounds weird but it was good."&gt;Brzmi dziwnie, ale to było dobre.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="After we got home from shopping she and her mother wrapped some presents and I took these pictures of Day 2 in Chicago."&gt;Po powrocie do domu z zakupów z matką zapakowane prezenty i wziąłem te zdjęcia Dzień 2 w Chicago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7142414509591280738?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7142414509591280738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7142414509591280738&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7142414509591280738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7142414509591280738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-2-chicago.html' title='Day 2-Chicago'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BABScgh65Vs/TwiQiNZzc1I/AAAAAAAAegY/ab2L8av_rRI/s72-c/IMG_9327.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4312781633533075845</id><published>2011-12-23T08:21:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T07:36:05.003-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Day1 Chicago</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UHIcqI8jRvg/Tvxshd-Z6_I/AAAAAAAAdp4/HdgLYjXelh8/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UHIcqI8jRvg/Tvxshd-Z6_I/AAAAAAAAdp4/HdgLYjXelh8/s320/2.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iTf07PFds60/Tvxslo7Lc5I/AAAAAAAAdqA/gM_TWvxFW1E/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iTf07PFds60/Tvxslo7Lc5I/AAAAAAAAdqA/gM_TWvxFW1E/s320/3.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EqH_y5aI2Kg/Tvxsr51fepI/AAAAAAAAdqI/EmHELSYWOdU/s1600/day+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EqH_y5aI2Kg/Tvxsr51fepI/AAAAAAAAdqI/EmHELSYWOdU/s320/day+1.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Well, we finally made it here to Chicago.&amp;nbsp; We woke at 5:45AM, took the taxi to the airport arriving way too early but that is what they said we had to do.&amp;nbsp; So we sat and waited until 9AM for our one hour flight to Warsaw.&amp;nbsp; The fog in Poznan continued to Warsaw so we couldn't see anything from the air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 11 hours in the air we arrived in Chicago to wait another two hours to get through customs which was an absolute mess for everyoe.&amp;nbsp; I couldn't believe the line that was in front of us waiting.&amp;nbsp; There must have been 120 or more people in front of us waiting in the U.S. citizen line and 40 in the visitor line so I thought to go into the visitor line but that was a mistake because it took forever for the line to move.&amp;nbsp; After we finally got through customs we went to pick up ouir bags but Karen couldn't be found anywhere.&amp;nbsp; There was no way to contact her because our Orange phone doesn't work here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally I found an airport helper who called Karen on his phone and told her where we were so we could meet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We met and drove to her house to see the grandkids and it was great to see them again.&amp;nbsp; Nikki and Joseph have grown and changed so much in the last four years, I'm really sorry we missed it. Today Joan, Karen and Nikki are going shopping and I'm going also but alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cóż, w końcu to tutaj do Chicago. Obudziliśmy się 05:45, wziął taksówkę na lotnisko przybywających zbyt wcześnie, ale that4 jest to, co mówią mieliśmy do czynienia. Tak siedzieliśmy i czekaliśmy aż od 9 rano do naszego jedynego godzinę lotu do Warszawy. Mgła w Poznaniu dalej do Warszawy, więc nie mogliśmy nic zobaczyć z powietrza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Po 11 godzinach w powietrzu, którym przybył do Chicago czekać kolejne dwie godziny, aby dotrzeć celnego, który stał się absolutnym bałagan na everyoe. Nie mogłem uwierzyć, linii, która została przed nami czeka. Nie musi być 120 lub więcej osób przed nami czeka linii obywatel USA i 40 w linii gościem więc pomyślałem, aby przejść do linii gościem, ale to był błąd, ponieważ był zawsze dla lline przenieść. Po końcu dostaliśmy celną my wennt do poick do torby ouir ale Karen nie można znaleźć wszędzie. Nie było skontaktować się telefonicznie lub Oranrge ponieważ nie działa tutaj.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;W końcu znalazłem pomocnika lotniska, który nazwał \ Karen na jego telefon i powiedział tu, gdzie jesteśmy, abyśmy mogli sprostać.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spotkaliśmy się i pojechaliśmy do domu, aby zobaczyć wnuki i fajnie było ich znowu zobaczyć. Nikki i Józefa wzrastał i zmienił sso znacznie w ciągu ostatnich czterech lat, bardzo mi przykro przeoczyliśmy. Dzisiaj Joan, Karen i Nikki są zakupy i mam zamiar również, ale tylko&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4312781633533075845?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4312781633533075845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4312781633533075845&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4312781633533075845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4312781633533075845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day1-chicago.html' title='Day1 Chicago'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UHIcqI8jRvg/Tvxshd-Z6_I/AAAAAAAAdp4/HdgLYjXelh8/s72-c/2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-5472437913102821060</id><published>2011-12-21T06:19:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T19:56:32.656-06:00</updated><title type='text'>PADA ŚNIEG! PADA ŚNIEG!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2EJ7JZ7XJ-g/TvHGCY3e8EI/AAAAAAAAdFo/JfbtDvTovNg/s1600/IMG_9262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2EJ7JZ7XJ-g/TvHGCY3e8EI/AAAAAAAAdFo/JfbtDvTovNg/s320/IMG_9262.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ChGYo3vuuus/TvHGIO4H8KI/AAAAAAAAdFw/BLsfsVF7UJw/s1600/IMG_9263.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ChGYo3vuuus/TvHGIO4H8KI/AAAAAAAAdFw/BLsfsVF7UJw/s320/IMG_9263.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wnTSVU_IR0I/TvHGLE6PXwI/AAAAAAAAdF4/jSisRRYdlHM/s1600/IMG_9264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wnTSVU_IR0I/TvHGLE6PXwI/AAAAAAAAdF4/jSisRRYdlHM/s320/IMG_9264.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KQDAlrtNmtg/TvHGP8zErPI/AAAAAAAAdGA/-b3MUSIiKmg/s1600/IMG_9265.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KQDAlrtNmtg/TvHGP8zErPI/AAAAAAAAdGA/-b3MUSIiKmg/s320/IMG_9265.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0KkC0F8Pv3A/TvHGTb6ed9I/AAAAAAAAdGI/RYEE-qcRkj4/s1600/IMG_9268.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0KkC0F8Pv3A/TvHGTb6ed9I/AAAAAAAAdGI/RYEE-qcRkj4/s320/IMG_9268.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x737dh6eiw0/TvH074ZPHJI/AAAAAAAAdGk/k6ud1AvK5W0/s1600/IMG_9269.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x737dh6eiw0/TvH074ZPHJI/AAAAAAAAdGk/k6ud1AvK5W0/s320/IMG_9269.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Reflection of our Christmas tree&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Last night I was talking with cousin Andrzej about the lack of snow and said I would like some.&amp;nbsp; He was of the opposite opinion.&amp;nbsp; There was none in the forecast so it seemed unlikely.........but the miracle of Christmas took over during the night.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This morning&amp;nbsp;I sprang from my bed to see what had happened. Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the curtain and threw up the sash.&amp;nbsp; The day on the breast of the new fallen snow gave the lustre of midday to the objects below. When what to my wondering eyes should appear but snow on the ground and snow everywhere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Driving back from the bank, seeing the snow, I finally started to get&amp;nbsp;excited about our trip and spending the holidays with our kids and grandchildren.&amp;nbsp; The last two Christmas's haven't seemed that special. Last Wigilia we spent alone and the year before with acquaintances.&amp;nbsp; It's not what I remember of Wigilia.&amp;nbsp; This one will be special.&amp;nbsp; Of course it won't be a traditional Polish Wigilia but an American Christmas&amp;nbsp;with Joan's children and grandchildren, then on the North Carolina for four days with my son and when we return to Chicago a vist with my sister.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thursday night may be a little difficult to have time to write this blog until I set up Karen's computer but I will try to keep you informed about what's happening and, of course, pictures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wczoraj w nocy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmawiałem z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kuzynem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Andrzej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;braku śniegu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i powiedziałem, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak niektórzy&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeciwnego zdania&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie było nikogo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w prognozie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wydawało się mało prawdopodobne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;.........&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cud&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bożego Narodzenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przejął&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w nocy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś rano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zerwał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z łóżka&lt;/span&gt;, aby zobaczyć &lt;span class="hps"&gt;co się stało.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wyjeździe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do okna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poleciałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;flash,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zerwał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zasłonę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i rzucił&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skrzydła.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na piersi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śnieg&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;blask&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;południa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do obiektów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poniżej.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mi do oczu,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zastanawiając się&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powinien pojawić się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śnieg&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na ziemi i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śniegu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszędzie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wracając&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z banku&lt;/span&gt;, widząc &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śnieg&lt;/span&gt;, ale w końcu &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zaczął&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;denerwować się o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszej podróży&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spędza święta&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszych dzieci&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i wnuków.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dwa ostatnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Boże Narodzenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wydawało się, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;specjalne&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ostatnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wigilia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spędziliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rok wcześniej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze znajomymi.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie jest to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;co pamiętam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wigilia&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ten&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyjątkowy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oczywiście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie będzie to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tradycyjna polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wigilia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bożego Narodzenia&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Amerykanin&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z dziećmi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i wnuków&lt;/span&gt;, a następnie na &lt;span class="hps"&gt;North Carolina&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez cztery dni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z moim synem i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po naszym powrocie do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;vist&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z moją siostrą.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Czwartek w nocy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;może być trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trudno mieć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czas na pisanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tego bloga&lt;/span&gt;, aż &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skonfigurować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;komputer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Karen&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;postaram się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Was informować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o tym, co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się dzieje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i, oczywiście&lt;/span&gt;, zdjęcia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-5472437913102821060?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/5472437913102821060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=5472437913102821060&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5472437913102821060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5472437913102821060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/pada-snieg-pada-snieg.html' title='PADA ŚNIEG! PADA ŚNIEG!!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2EJ7JZ7XJ-g/TvHGCY3e8EI/AAAAAAAAdFo/JfbtDvTovNg/s72-c/IMG_9262.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-6104828329511662077</id><published>2011-12-20T08:51:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T15:58:08.312-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Piekarczyk's!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Władysław Piekarczyk, father of Włodzimierz and son of Franciszek Piekarczyk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Finally I have met relatives from my Piekarczyk side of the my family, my father's side.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Last night they arrived at our flat and with the help of our friend Zbyszek I was able to talk with them.&amp;nbsp; 1 week ago I was contacted by Włodzimierz Piekarczk and his wife, Anna, by email.&amp;nbsp; He said he was a cousin, connected to me because his grandfather, Franciszek, was a brother of my grandfather, Tomasz.&amp;nbsp; Our common great grandfather and mother were Piotr and Maryanna Piekarczyk. To verify it he also sent me another picture of Piotr that I had never seen before. For me this was great news, to have contact finally from a Piekarczyk but there was more interesting news to follow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;His wife Anna said they had been down in the area where my grandparents lived before they went to America.&amp;nbsp; They were searching for relatives themselves and thought the trip would be the best way to search.&amp;nbsp; What they found out was that when&amp;nbsp;my grandparents left to America they left behind four pieces of property and did nothing to maintain them.&amp;nbsp; Years ago the local government went to court to acquire the rights to those properties stating the owners could not be found and there were no relatives of them.&amp;nbsp; They didn't know anything about what happened to my grandparents other than they had gone to America so they knew nothing about descendents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;My "new" cousins had searched the archives for that area and found the deeds for the property with my grandfather and grandmothers names on them.&amp;nbsp; They thought that it&amp;nbsp; might be possible to recover those properties now that there was proof of a descendent and asked me if I was interested in that.&amp;nbsp; I told them them the most important thing for me was meeting relatives but the property might also be interesting and that I would see what, if any, possibility there was to recover those properties.&amp;nbsp; It seems unlikely but it is something I am not sure of so I can look into it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We talked for about an hour about the properties and because it was late they went to a hotel and I agreed to meet with them this morning and continue our discussion, this time without Zbyszek.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I met them at their hotel and we sat and talked for three hours about family connections.&amp;nbsp; Włodek showed me pictures of older relatives I didn't know.&amp;nbsp; This meeting was mainly about family histories and I was able, somewhat, to talk without the help of Zbyszek.&amp;nbsp; After the three hours it was time to go and they invited Joan and I to Elbląg where they live, in the north of Poland.&amp;nbsp; We also agreed to make a trip together in the Spring down to the area of our family and&amp;nbsp;continue our search for relatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;For me it was a great experience.&amp;nbsp; Both of them were extremely sincere, friendly, upbeat and enthusiastic about finally finding a new relative and I left them looking forward to our next meeting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span title="Finally I have met relatives from my Piekarczyk side of the my family, my father's side."&gt;W końcu spotkali się krewni z mojej strony Piekarczyk z mojej rodziny, mojego ojca. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9;" title="Last night they arrived at our flat and with the help of our friend Zbyszek I was able to talk with them."&gt;Wczoraj w nocy dotarli do naszego mieszkania i przy pomocy naszego przyjaciela Zbyszka udało mi się porozmawiać z nimi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="1 week ago I was contacted by Włodzimierz Piekarczk and his wife, Anna, by email."&gt;1 tydzień temu skontaktował się Włodzimierz Piekarczk i jego żona, Anna, przez e-mail. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="He said he was a cousin, connected to me because his grandfather, Franciszek, was a brother of my grandfather, Tomasz."&gt;Powiedział, że był kuzynem, podłączony do mnie, bo jego dziadek, Franciszek, był brat mojego dziadka, Tomasz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Our common great grandfather and mother were Piotr and Maryanna Piekarczyk."&gt;Nasz wspólny dziadek i matka byli Piotr i Maryanna Piekarczyk. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="To verify it he also sent me another picture of Piotr that I had never seen before."&gt;Aby sprawdzić, czy to on wysłał mnie również inny obraz Piotra, że ​​nigdy wcześniej nie widziałem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="For me this was great news, to have contact finally from a Piekarczyk but there was more interesting news to follow."&gt;Dla mnie to było wielkie wydarzenie, do kontaktowania się w końcu z Piekarczyk ale nie było bardziej interesujące nowości do naśladowania.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span title="His wife Anna said they had been down in the area where my grandparents lived before they went to America."&gt;Jego żona, Anna zadeklarowało, iż w obszarze, gdzie moi dziadkowie mieszkali przed udali się do Ameryki. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="They were searching for relatives themselves and thought the trip would be the best way to search."&gt;Szukali krewnych się i pomyślałem, że podróż będzie najlepszym sposobem wyszukiwania. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="What they found out was that when my grandparents left to America they left behind four pieces of property and did nothing to maintain them."&gt;Co odkryli, że gdy dziadkowie zostawili do Ameryki pozostawili cztery części majątku i nie zrobił nic, aby je utrzymać. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Years ago the local government went to court to acquire the rights to those properties stating the owners could not be found and there were no relatives of them."&gt;Lat temu samorząd poszedł do sądu w celu nabycia prawa do tych nieruchomości z podaniem właścicieli nie udało się znaleźć i nie było krewnych z nich. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="They didn't know anything about what happened to my grandparents other than they had gone to America so they knew nothing about descendents."&gt;Nie wiedzieli nic o tym, co się stało z moim dziadkowie innych niż oni poszli do Ameryki, więc nic nie wiedział o potomków.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="They didn't know anything about what happened to my grandparents other than they had gone to America so they knew nothing about descendents."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span title="They didn't know anything about what happened to my grandparents other than they had gone to America so they knew nothing about descendents."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span title="My &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; cousins had searched the archives for that area and found the deeds for the property with my grandfather and grandmothers names on them."&gt;Moje "nowych" kuzynów przeszukał archiwa dla tego obszaru i znaleźć czyny dla nieruchomości z dziadkiem i nazwy babcie na nich. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="They thought that it might be possible to recover those properties now that there was proof of a descendent and asked me if I was interested in that."&gt;Myśleli, że to może być możliwe odzyskanie tych nieruchomości teraz, że istnieje dowód potomka i zapytał mnie, czy jestem zainteresowany w tym. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I told them them the most important thing for me was meeting relatives but the property might also be interesting and that I would see what, if any, possibility there was to recover those properties."&gt;Powiedziałem im, ich najważniejszą rzeczą dla mnie było spotkanie krewnych, ale własność może być równie interesujące i że zobaczę co, jeśli w ogóle, istnieje możliwość odzyskania tych nieruchomości. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It seems unlikely but it is something I am no sure of so I can look into it."&gt;Wydaje się mało prawdopodobne, ale jest coś nie jestem pewien, więc mogę na nią patrzeć.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It seems unlikely but it is something I am no sure of so I can look into it."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span title="It seems unlikely but it is something I am no sure of so I can look into it."&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span title="We talked for about an hour about the properties and because it was late they went to a hotel and I agreed to meet with them this morning and continue our discussion, this time without Zbyszek."&gt;Rozmawialiśmy przez około godzinę na temat właściwości i ponieważ było już późno poszli do hotelu i zgodziłem się na spotkanie z nimi rano i kontynuować naszą dyskusję, tym razem bez Zbyszka.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I met them at their hotel and we sat and talked for three hours about family connections."&gt;Poznałem ich w ich hotelu i siedzieliśmy i rozmawialiśmy przez trzy godziny o powiązania rodzinne. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span title="Włodek showed me pictures of older relatives I didn't know."&gt;Włodek pokazał mi zdjęcia starszych krewnych nie wiem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="This meeting was mainly about family histories and I was able, somewhat, to talk without the help of Zbyszek."&gt;Spotkanie to było głównie o historii rodziny i byłem w stanie, nieco, rozmawiać bez pomocy Zbyszek. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="After the three hours it was time to go and they invited Joan and I to Elbląg where they live, in the north of Poland."&gt;Po trzech godzin to czas, aby pójść i zaprosił Joan i ja do Elbląga, gdzie mieszkają, na północy Polska. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We also agreed to make a trip together in the Spring down to the area of our family and continue our search for relatives."&gt;Zgodziliśmy się na rejs razem wiosną w dół do obszaru naszej rodziny i kontynuować nasze poszukiwania krewnych.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span title="For me it was a great experience."&gt;Dla mnie było to wspaniałe doświadczenie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Both of them were extremely sincere, friendly, upbeat and enthusiastic about finally finding a new relative and I left them looking forward to our next meeting."&gt;Oboje byli niezwykle szczery, przyjacielski, optymistyczne i entuzjastycznie ostatecznie znalezieniu nowego względne i odszedłem od nich doczekać następnego spotkania.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-6104828329511662077?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/6104828329511662077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=6104828329511662077&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6104828329511662077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6104828329511662077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/piekarczyks.html' title='Piekarczyk&apos;s!!!!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-8353402207579039653</id><published>2011-12-18T12:14:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T12:18:35.014-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Visits</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;At 12:30 cousin Krzysztof Kupiński arrived with his wife, Wiesia, daughter, Oliwia and son, Marcin. We talked for a little while about the interesting development on my Piekarczyk side of the family and then went into the dining room for coffee, tea and pastries.&amp;nbsp; It's always nice to get together with them, especially since Krzystof have a similar passion for geneology.&amp;nbsp; I showed him the progress I have made since our last visit since my wall chart has more names of relatives on it now.&amp;nbsp; They stayed for about an hour and a half and then started the drive to Koniń where they live.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joan and I&amp;nbsp; cleared off the table, put things away and then went to cousin Luka's house to give our presents to her daughter Rózia since yesterday was her 10th birthday.&amp;nbsp; We bought her three books, in English, for her to read.&amp;nbsp; She is in the second year of English but it already speaking in the language.&amp;nbsp; I always think of her in the picture I had taken of Rózia and I on our first trip to Poland in 2003 when her head did not even reach the top of the chair that you see Joan sitting in.&amp;nbsp; Now, as you can see in the picture, she is much taller. She is also playing piano and what's called the Irish whistle which is kind of like a recorder.&amp;nbsp; She played 3 Christmas carols for us and it was nice.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already at the house when we arrived were her grandmother and grandfather from her fathers side of the family.&amp;nbsp; We've met them several times before and it's a pleasure to talk with them because they don't speak English and I can practice my Polish. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had cake and tea and then Rózia showed me the historical story she wrote with the help of her mother and I of family history for school.&amp;nbsp; I was impressed with her writing abilities.&amp;nbsp; The writing was very easy to read, I mean the writing was very legible and I had no trouble reading the story.&amp;nbsp; I hope her interest in the history continues as she grows older.&amp;nbsp; This was a project she had to do for a school assignment and she received a 6 for it.&amp;nbsp; In Poland, grades are by numbers 1-6 not like in the U.S. where they use letters, A,B,C,D,F.&amp;nbsp; 6, in Poland, is the highest mark you can get.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span title="At 12:30 cousin Krzysztof Kupiński arrived with his wife, Wiesia, daughter, Oliwia and son, Marcin."&gt;O godzinie 12:30 kuzyna Krzysztof Kupiński przybył z żoną, córka Wiesia, Oliwia i syn, Marcin. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9;" title="We talked for a little while about the interesting development on my Piekarczyk side of the family and then went into the dining room for coffee, tea and pastries."&gt;Rozmawialiśmy przez chwilę o interesujący rozwój mojej stronie Piekarczyk z rodziny, a następnie udał się do jadalni na kawę, herbatę i ciastka. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It's always nice to get together with them, especially since Krzystof have a similar passion for geneology."&gt;Zawsze miło się razem z nimi, zwłaszcza, że ​​Krzysztof ma podobną pasję do genealogii. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I showed him the progress I have made since our last visit since my wall chart has more names of relatives on it now."&gt;Pokazałem mu postęp zrobiłem od naszej ostatniej wizyty, ponieważ mój wykres ściana ma więcej nazwisk krewnych na to teraz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="They stayed for about an hour and a half and then started the drive to Koniń where they live."&gt;Zostali przez około godzinę i pół, a następnie rozpoczął jazdy do Konina, gdzie mieszkają.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Joan and I cleared off the table, put things away and then went to cousin Luka's house to give our presents to her daughter Rózia since yesterday was her 10th birthday."&gt;Joan i ja wybita z tabeli, umieścić rzeczy od hotelu, a następnie udał się do domu kuzyna Luka, aby dać naszym przedstawia jej Rózia córka od wczoraj był jej 10. urodziny. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We bought her three books, in English, for her to read."&gt;Kupiliśmy jej trzy książki, w języku angielskim, dla niej czytać. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She is in the second year of English but it already speaking in the language."&gt;Ona jest w drugim roku po angielsku, ale już mówienie w tym języku. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I always think of her in the picture I had taken of Rózia and I on our first trip to Poland in 2003 when her head did not even reach the top of the chair that you see Joan sitting in. Now, as you can see in the"&gt;Zawsze myślałem o niej w zdjęcie wziąłem z Rózia i na naszej pierwszej podróży do Polska w 2003 r., kiedy głowę nawet nie dotrzeć do góry na krześle, które widzisz Joan siedzi w. Teraz, jak widać w &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="picture, she is much taller."&gt;obraz, jest ona znacznie wyższa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She is also playing piano and what's called the Irish whistle which is kind of like a recorder."&gt;Jest także gra na fortepianie i to, co nazywa irlandzki gwizdek, która jest trochę jak magnetofon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She played 3 Christmas carols for us and it was nice."&gt;Grała 3 kolędy dla nas i było miło.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Already at the house when we arrived were her grandmother and grandfather from her fathers side of the family."&gt;Już w domu, gdy dotarliśmy były babci i dziadka z jej strony ojców rodziny. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We've met them several times before and it's a pleasure to talk with them because they don't speak English and I can practice my Polish."&gt;Spotkaliśmy je kilka razy przed i to jest przyjemność z nimi rozmawiać, bo nie znają języka angielskiego i ćwiczyć Polska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We had cake and tea and then Rózia showed me the historical story she wrote with the help of her mother and I of family history for school."&gt;Mieliśmy ciastko i herbata, a następnie Rózia pokazał mi historycznej opowieści pisała z pomocą matki i historii rodziny do szkoły. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I was impressed with her writing abilities."&gt;Byłem pod wrażeniem jej umiejętności pisania. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The writing was very easy to read, I mean the writing was very legible and I had no trouble reading the story."&gt;Pismo było bardzo łatwe do odczytania, mam na myśli pismo było wyraźnie czytelne i nie miałem problemów z odczytywaniem historii. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I hope her interest in the history continues as she grows older."&gt;Mam nadzieję, że jej zainteresowanie historią nadal jak ona dorasta. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="This was a project she had to do for a school assignment and she received a 6 for it."&gt;Był to projekt miała zrobić dla zadania szkoły i otrzymała 6 dla niego. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="In Poland, grades are by numbers 1-6 not like in the US where they use letters, A,B,C,D,F."&gt;W Polska, klasy są za pomocą liczb nie 06/01 jak w USA, gdzie używać liter, A, B, C, D, F. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="6, in Poland, is the highest mark you can get."&gt;6, Polska, to najwyższy znak można dostać.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-8353402207579039653?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/8353402207579039653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=8353402207579039653&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8353402207579039653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8353402207579039653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/visits.html' title='Visits'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-39ceT1BrmPw/Tu4o47gb-fI/AAAAAAAAdDE/zWUqDKZdnFQ/s72-c/IMG_9218.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4874226754853273065</id><published>2011-12-17T11:41:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T19:58:17.954-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Czekamy!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Waiting for tomorrow's guests and a visit to cousin Rózia for her birthday(a little late)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Czekamy na gości jutro i wizty do kuzyna Rózia na urodzina( zbyt pożno)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4874226754853273065?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4874226754853273065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4874226754853273065&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4874226754853273065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4874226754853273065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/czekamy.html' title='Czekamy!!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-3932604377932818985</id><published>2011-12-16T08:23:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T08:24:48.563-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Visit</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GsecK9rvnL4/TutRkunapTI/AAAAAAAAc_I/OrrbzzqvKuE/s1600/16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GsecK9rvnL4/TutRkunapTI/AAAAAAAAc_I/OrrbzzqvKuE/s320/16.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;A dark and dreary day today in Poznań outside but inside light and happy.&amp;nbsp; I'm looking forward to meeting my Piekarczyk relatives for the first time next Monday.&amp;nbsp; Last night I talked with my sister and arranged a day for us to meet and see each other again.&amp;nbsp; Four years is a long time. I received her picture Christmas card yesterday but she never answered my snail mail letter so I figured it hadn't reached her yet.&amp;nbsp; It's only been two months since I mailed it so I thought I would call instead.&amp;nbsp; It was nice hearing her voice again and I can't wait to see her.&amp;nbsp; I realize now that two weeks in the U.S. isn't enough time to see everyone but we already have the flights booked so I'm not changing them now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We haven't started any preparations for our trip and probably won't until Tuesday.&amp;nbsp; We're not taking much with us because we plan on clothes shopping when we are there.&amp;nbsp; Clothing may be one of the few things in America cheaper than in Poland now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ciemne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i ponure&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Poznaniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na zewnątrz, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wewnątrz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lekki i szczęśliwy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie mogę się doczekać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na spotkanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;moich krewnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Piekarczyk&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po raz pierwszy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w najbliższy poniedziałek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wczoraj w nocy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmawiałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z moją siostrą i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zorganizował&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzień dla nas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spotkać się i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zobaczymy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Cztery lata&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to szmat czasu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Otrzymałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej zdjęcie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kartki świąteczne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wczoraj, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nigdy nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiedział na moje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pismo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pocztą tradycyjną&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc pomyślałem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dotarł do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej jeszcze.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tylko dwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miesiące od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wysłałam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;myślałem, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zamiast tego wywołanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Było miło&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;słysząc jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;głos&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponownie i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie mogę się doczekać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żeby ją zobaczyć.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zdaję sobie sprawę,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że dwa tygodnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w USA nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma wystarczająco dużo czasu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby zobaczyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystkich, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mamy już&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bilety lotnicze&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc nie jestem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zmieniając je&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozpoczęto&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żadnych przygotowań do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszej wyprawy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawdopodobnie nie będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do wtorku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bierzesz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dużo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nas, bo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;plan na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ubrania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zakupy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, kiedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tam jesteśmy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Odzież&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;może być jedną&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z niewielu rzeczy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Ameryce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tańsze niż w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-3932604377932818985?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/3932604377932818985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=3932604377932818985&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3932604377932818985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3932604377932818985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/visit.html' title='Visit'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GsecK9rvnL4/TutRkunapTI/AAAAAAAAc_I/OrrbzzqvKuE/s72-c/16.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7901764102557116346</id><published>2011-12-15T10:15:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T19:57:54.260-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Expensive day.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Started off the day with the car insuance man coming to our house and writing out the policy for the next year.&amp;nbsp; Total cost for full coverage was 1,542zl($500).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;After he left I had to take our car in for the annual safety inspection. It only took 15 minutes and I found this place was a lot closer to our flat than the dealer I use to go to. Cost for that was 99zl($30). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In the afternoon we went to Real for weekly food shopping and&amp;nbsp; the cost was 136zl($40) so all together it was an expensive day but owning a car is always an expense. Living the first&amp;nbsp; six months in Poznań we didn't have a car and used public transportation but we could only travel where busses or trains went to and we wanted to see more of Poland than that.&amp;nbsp; Often times I find the little small towns or villages of Poland are just as interesting than the bigger cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I just realized tomorrow is Friday and I haven't finished my homework yet.&amp;nbsp; I was too distracted with the latest family connection and so tonight I have to finish the work and send it quickly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zaczął się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z człowiekiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;insuance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;samochodów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przyjeżdżających do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszego domu i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wypisując&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polityki na następne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lata&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Koszt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pełnego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pokrycia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;1542&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;($ 500)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po opuszczeniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;musiałem podjąć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nasz samochód&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rocznej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kontroli bezpieczeństwa&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wystarczyło&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;15 minut i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znalazłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to miejsce było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o wiele bliżej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do naszego mieszkania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niż sprzedawcy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mogę używać&lt;/span&gt;, aby przejść do. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Koszt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tego był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;99zł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;(30 $)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po południu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;udaliśmy się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do Realu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cotygodniowe zakupy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żywności i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;koszt był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;136zl&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;($ 40&lt;/span&gt;), więc &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszyscy razem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drogie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzień, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;posiadaniem samochodu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zawsze jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kosztem.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Życie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pierwszych sześciu miesięcy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Poznaniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie mieliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i używanych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;środków transportu publicznego&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;możemy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podróżować tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gdzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;autobusy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pociągi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poszedł i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chcieliśmy&lt;/span&gt; zobaczyć &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więcej&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Często&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znaleźć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;małych miast&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wsi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są tak samo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;interesujące niż&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;większych miastach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zdałem sobie sprawę,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jutro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest piątek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jeszcze nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skończyłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeszcze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pracy domowej&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Byłem zbyt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozkojarzony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z najnowszymi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;połączenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodziny i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;muszę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dokończyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pracę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i wysłać go&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szybko&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7901764102557116346?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7901764102557116346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7901764102557116346&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7901764102557116346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7901764102557116346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/expensive-day.html' title='Expensive day.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-2021769715378610573</id><published>2011-12-14T01:42:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T19:57:29.325-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The ride.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:3}"&gt;The Cab Ride&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I walked to the door and knocked...Just a minute, answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me.  She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Would you carry my bag out to the car? ' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, and returned to assist the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb. She kept thanking me for my kindness. It's nothing', I told her...I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother to be treated. '&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Oh, you're such a good boy, she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address and then asked, 'Could you drive through downtown? 'It's not the shortest way, 'I answered quickly...'Oh, I don't mind, she said. I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. 'I don't have any family left', she continued in a soft voice...The doctor says I don't have very long. ....... I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What route would you like me to take I asked? For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing. As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, I'm tired. Let's go now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico. Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair. How much do I owe you she asked, reaching into her purse? Nothing, I said. You have to make a living, she answered. There are other passengers, I responded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. You gave an old woman a little moment of joy, she said, thank you. I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light.. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life...I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift?  What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life. We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID ~BUT~THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You won't get any big surprise in 10 days if you send this to ten people. But, you might help make the world a little kinder and more compassionate by sending it on and reminding us that often it is the random acts of kindness that most benefit all of us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9;" title="I arrived at the address and honked the horn."&gt;Przyjechałem na adres i zatrąbił w róg. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="After waiting a few minutes I walked to the door and knocked...Just a minute, answered a frail, elderly voice."&gt;Po odczekaniu kilku minutach podszedł do drzwi i zapukał ... Chwileczkę, odpowiedział słabych, starszych głos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I could hear something being dragged across the floor."&gt;Słyszałem coś przeciągane po podłodze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="After a long pause, the door opened."&gt;Po długiej chwili, drzwi otworzyły się. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="A small woman in her 90's stood before me."&gt;Mała kobieta w jej 90-stanął przede mną. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie."&gt;Miała na sobie sukienkę wydrukować i kapelusz bunkier z welonem przypięte na to, jak ktoś z filmu 1940 roku.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="By her side was a small nylon suitcase."&gt;U jej boku była małą walizką nylonu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years."&gt;Mieszkanie wyglądało na to, nikt nie mieszkał w nim od lat. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="All the furniture was covered with sheets."&gt;Wszystkie meble zostały pokryte arkuszy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters."&gt;Nie było zegary na ścianach, nie drobiazgi lub naczynia na liczniki. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware."&gt;W rogu był karton pełen zdjęć i wyroby ze szkła.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="'Would you carry my bag out to the car?"&gt;"Czy nosić torbę do samochodu? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="' she said."&gt;Powiedziała. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I took the suitcase to the cab, and returned to assist the woman."&gt;Wziąłem walizkę do kabiny, i wrócił, aby pomóc kobiecie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb."&gt;Wzięła mnie za rękę i szliśmy powoli do krawężnika. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She kept thanking me for my kindness."&gt;Trzymała dziękując mi za życzliwość. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It's nothing', I told her...I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother to be treated."&gt;To nic, powiedziałem jej ... Po prostu staram się traktować moje pasażerów drogą chciałbym mojej matki powinny być traktowane. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="'"&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="'Oh, you're such a good boy, she said."&gt;"Oh, jesteś taki dobry chłopak, powiedziała. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="When we got in the cab, she gave me an address and then asked, 'Could you drive through downtown?"&gt;Kiedy mamy w kabinie, dała mi adres, a następnie zapytał: "Czy możesz jechać przez centrum? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="'It's not the shortest way, 'I answered quickly...'Oh, I don't mind, she said."&gt;"To nie jest najkrótszą drogą", odpowiedziałem szybko ... "Och, nie mam nic, powiedziała. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I'm in no hurry."&gt;Jestem nie spieszy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I'm on my way to a hospice."&gt;Jestem na mojej drodze do hospicjum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I looked in the rear-view mirror."&gt;Spojrzałem w lusterko wsteczne. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Her eyes were glistening."&gt;Jej oczy lśniły. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="'I don't have any family left', she continued in a soft voice...The doctor says I don't have very long."&gt;"Nie mam żadnej rodziny w lewo", ona nadal w łagodnym głosem ... lekarz mówi, że nie bardzo długo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="......."&gt;....... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I quietly reached over and shut off the meter."&gt;I po cichu wyniósł ponad i wyłączyć miernik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="What route would you like me to take I asked?"&gt;Co trasy chcesz mnie do zapytałem? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="For the next two hours, we drove through the city."&gt;Przez następne dwie godziny jechaliśmy przez miasto. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator."&gt;Ona pokazała mi budynku, gdzie niegdyś pracował jako operator windy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds."&gt;Jechaliśmy przez okolicy, w której ona i jej mąż żył, gdy byli nowożeńcy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl."&gt;Miała mnie podjeżdżają składu mebli, które kiedyś sala balowa, gdzie poszła tańczyć jak dziewczyna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing."&gt;Czasami Pytała mnie zwolnić przed danym budynku lub w rogu i siedział wpatrując się w ciemność, nic nie mówiąc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, I'm tired."&gt;Jako pierwsza wzmianka o słońce bigowania horyzont, nagle powiedział, jestem zmęczony. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Let's go now."&gt;Przejdźmy teraz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We drove in silence to the address she had given me."&gt;Jechaliśmy w milczeniu, na adres dała mi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico."&gt;Był to niski budynek, jak małe sanatorium, z podjazdem, które przeszły pod portykiem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up."&gt;Dwóch sanitariuszy wyszedł do kabiny, jak tylko zatrzymał się. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move."&gt;Byli troskliwy i intencji, obserwuje każdy jej ruch. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="They must have been expecting her."&gt;Muszą być spodziewa się.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door."&gt;I otworzył bagażnik i wziął małą walizeczkę do drzwi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The woman was already seated in a wheelchair."&gt;Kobieta była już siedzącym na wózku inwalidzkim. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="How much do I owe you she asked, reaching into her purse?"&gt;Ile jestem ci winien zapytała, sięgając do torebki? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Nothing, I said."&gt;Nic nie powiedziałem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="You have to make a living, she answered."&gt;Musisz zarobić na życie, odpowiedziała. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="There are other passengers, I responded."&gt;Istnieją inne pasażerów, odpowiedziałem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug."&gt;Prawie bez myślenia, I pochylił i dał jej przytulić. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="She held onto me tightly."&gt;Ona trzymała mnie mocno. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="You gave an old woman a little moment of joy, she said, thank you."&gt;Dałeś staruszka trochę moment radości, powiedziała, dziękuję. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light.."&gt;I ścisnął jej dłoń, a następnie wszedł do słabym świetle rano .. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Behind me, a door shut."&gt;Za mną, a drzwi zamknięte. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="It was the sound of the closing of a life...I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift."&gt;To był dźwięk zamknięcia życia ... I nie podnieś więcej pasażerów, że zmiany. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I drove aimlessly lost in thought."&gt;Jeździłem bez celu zamyślony. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk."&gt;Na resztę dnia, nie mogłam mówić. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift?"&gt;Co zrobić, jeśli ta kobieta dostała zły sterownik, czy ten, który nie mógł się doczekać do końca jego zmiany? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?"&gt;Co zrobić, gdy odmówił wzięcia w biegu, lub nie zatrąbił raz, a następnie odjechał?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life."&gt;Na szybki przegląd, nie sądzę, że zrobiłem coś ważniejszego w życiu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments."&gt;Jesteśmy uwarunkowani, by myśleć, że nasze życie kręci się wokół wspaniałych chwil. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one."&gt;Ale wielkie chwile często nas złapać nieświadomych-pięknie opakowane w to, co inni mogą uważać małe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID ~BUT~THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL."&gt;Ludzie mogą nie pamiętam dokładnie co zrobiłeś, lub to, co powiedziałeś ~ ~ ALE BĘDĄ ZAWSZE Pamiętasz jak wówczas czuli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="You won't get any big surprise in 10 days if you send this to ten people."&gt;Nie będzie żadnych niespodzianka w 10 dni, jeśli wyślesz to do dziesięciu osób. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="But, you might help make the world a little kinder and more compassionate by sending it on and reminding us that often it is the random acts of kindness that most benefit all of us."&gt;Ale może pomóc uczynić świat trochę milsze i bardziej współczujący, wysyłając go i przypomina nam, że często jest to przypadkowe akty dobroci, że największe korzyści dla nas wszystkich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2021769715378610573?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2021769715378610573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2021769715378610573&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2021769715378610573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2021769715378610573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/ride.html' title='The ride.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-1140212608710733038</id><published>2011-12-13T10:15:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-13T10:16:53.252-06:00</updated><title type='text'>We're ready!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-smM3pWgoHAw/Tud3I-A_LRI/AAAAAAAAc9A/v_iT3c3YN8w/s1600/13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-smM3pWgoHAw/Tud3I-A_LRI/AAAAAAAAc9A/v_iT3c3YN8w/s400/13.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only four more days and cousin Oliwia will visit with her mother, father and brother. The flat is decorated and everything is ready except for the pastries which I will get on Sunday morning.&amp;nbsp; OH BOY!&amp;nbsp; Visitors.&amp;nbsp; A little snow would be nice but nothing is in the forecast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another development from my contact with a Piekarczyk relative but it's too soon to write about until I know more about it. I will be meeting him and his wife this coming Monday so it will be nice to see them in person in Poznań. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is the remembrance in Poland of the day Martial Law was imposed.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Fifty one percent of Poles believe that the decision to impose martial law on December 13, 1981 was justified with 27 percent holding an opposite view according to a poll taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cztery dni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kuzyna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oliwia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odwiedzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z matką,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ojcem i bratem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mieszkanie jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;urządzone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i wszystko jest gotowe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, z wyjątkiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, które&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dostanę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w niedzielę rano.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oh Boy!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Odwiedzających&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mało śniegu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byłoby miło,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale nic nie jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w prognozie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kolejna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z moich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kontaktów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ze względnym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Piekarczyk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zbyt wcześnie, by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pisać o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;aż dowiem się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więcej na ten temat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;I będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spotkanie z nim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jego żoną&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ten&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nadchodzący poniedziałek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miło zobaczyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;je osobiście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Poznaniu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzisiaj jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pamięć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stanu wojennego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;została nałożona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pięćdziesiąt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeden procent&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polaków uważa, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;​​decyzji o wprowadzeniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stanu wojennego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;13 grudnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;1981 r. był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;uzasadniony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;27 procent&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;posiadania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeciwny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pogląd, zgodnie z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podjętym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ankiety.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-1140212608710733038?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/1140212608710733038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=1140212608710733038&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/1140212608710733038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/1140212608710733038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/were-ready.html' title='We&apos;re ready!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-smM3pWgoHAw/Tud3I-A_LRI/AAAAAAAAc9A/v_iT3c3YN8w/s72-c/13.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-8840757876567450502</id><published>2011-12-12T10:10:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-12T10:18:25.168-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tree, picture.and lantern night.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e2yVXH3Qrq4/TuYmChlM-bI/AAAAAAAAc8M/oYm65_hTUgA/s1600/IMG_9210.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e2yVXH3Qrq4/TuYmChlM-bI/AAAAAAAAc8M/oYm65_hTUgA/s320/IMG_9210.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1OcxPRJjI70/TuYmEuoF2SI/AAAAAAAAc8U/6xn9hyfZOY8/s1600/IMG_9211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1OcxPRJjI70/TuYmEuoF2SI/AAAAAAAAc8U/6xn9hyfZOY8/s320/IMG_9211.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We spent all day finishing the cleaning and putting up the Christmas tree.&amp;nbsp; Of course, we also decorated the flat and made it very Christmassy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I heard again from my newest connection to my Piekarczyk family and received another picture of my great grandfather that I did not see before. He looks like he had a hard life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cDI2SxqvALo/TuYnGzHSlPI/AAAAAAAAc8c/bplfP5-mV0o/s1600/Piotr+Piekarczyk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cDI2SxqvALo/TuYnGzHSlPI/AAAAAAAAc8c/bplfP5-mV0o/s320/Piotr+Piekarczyk.jpg" width="219" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" lang="pl"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Spędziliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cały dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zakończeniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czyszczenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i stawiania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;choinki&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oczywiście,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;również&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;urządzone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszkanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;że bardzo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;narodzenia&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozległ się znowu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojej najnowszej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;związku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z moją rodziną&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Piekarczyk&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;otrzymał kolejne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęcie mojego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pradziadka&lt;/span&gt;, że &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie widziałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wcześniej.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wygląda, jakby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciężkie życie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools-r"&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Listen" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-listen-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Listen" id="gt-res-listen" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Read phonetically" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-roman-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Read phonetically" id="gt-res-roman" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Rate translation" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Rate translation" id="gt-res-rate"&gt;&lt;div aria-haspopup="true" class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button" role="button" tabindex="0" title="" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-outer-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-inner-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-caption" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-flat-menu-button-img gt-rate-icon jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Uo778wj6rvg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-8840757876567450502?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/8840757876567450502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=8840757876567450502&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8840757876567450502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8840757876567450502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/tree-and-picture.html' title='Tree, picture.and lantern night.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e2yVXH3Qrq4/TuYmChlM-bI/AAAAAAAAc8M/oYm65_hTUgA/s72-c/IMG_9210.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-570955856422445319</id><published>2011-12-11T09:28:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:11:57.492-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tired but inspired.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZM11Tv09N1Q/TuTMj1FtzaI/AAAAAAAAc7s/HQYwgRb7XPg/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZM11Tv09N1Q/TuTMj1FtzaI/AAAAAAAAc7s/HQYwgRb7XPg/s320/7.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Man, I'm beat. All afternoon cleaning the house, washing windows, vacumning rugs and didn't get the tree up but we will tomorrow in the afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow morning I have to take the car in for the yearly inspection so the morning is shot.&amp;nbsp; I'm not taking it to the dealer because they are too expensive.&amp;nbsp; Instead I will take it to the shop that has been taking&amp;nbsp; care of the car when it needed something like tire changing and oil change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned today&amp;nbsp;that last night was the festival of lights that I wanted to attend but too late.&amp;nbsp; It's the event where they light up paper bags with candles and the heat of the candle gives off enough energy to lift the candles up into the air over the Warta river.&amp;nbsp; Last year there were thousands of them in the air at the same time and I wanted to see it in person but we missed it again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for the inspiration part. For the last four years I have tried, in vain, to find relatives from my fathers side of my family.&amp;nbsp; This was due mainly because they come from southern Poland and records are not in Poznań.&amp;nbsp; In the past I left messages on various genealogical boards searching for Piekarczyk. Two years ago we took a trip to the village of my grandfather but found no relatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, today a small miracle happened.&amp;nbsp; I received an email from a Piekarczyk telling me his&amp;nbsp; grandfather was also the brother of my&amp;nbsp;grandfather.&amp;nbsp; This man was born in the village of Babić which, for me, is a great coincdence because I had an uncle whose last name was Babic.&amp;nbsp; What is more, I had only one picture of my great grandfather, his wife and daughter which I attached to the messages I left.&amp;nbsp; In his email to me, this man said he had the exact same picture.&amp;nbsp; This is so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&amp;nbsp; I waited almost 8 years to find a picture of my grandfathers oldest sister and now, after four years, a new door has opened up on my family history which I will gladly pursue.&amp;nbsp; It is truly Christmas time!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Człowiek&lt;/span&gt;, jestem &lt;span class="hps"&gt;beat.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wszystkie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;południu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sprzątanie domu&lt;/span&gt;, mycie okien, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;vacumning&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dywany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sprawić, że drzewo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jutro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po południu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jutro rano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;muszę brać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;samochód&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla rocznych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kontroli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;strzał.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie biorę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go do sprzedawcy&lt;/span&gt;, ponieważ są one &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zbyt drogie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zamiast tego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zabiorę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do sklepu&lt;/span&gt;, który &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dba o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;samochód, gdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;potrzebował czegoś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak zmiana&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;opon&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wymiany oleju.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dowiedziałem się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ostatniej nocy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;festiwal światła&lt;/span&gt;, że chcę &lt;span class="hps"&gt;uczestniczyć&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;za późno.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jest to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wydarzenie&lt;/span&gt;, w którym &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świeci się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;worki papierowe z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świece&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i ciepło&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świecy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wydziela&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wystarczającej ilości energii&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;aby podnieść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świece&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w powietrze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nad rzeką&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wartą.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W ubiegłym roku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich tysiące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w powietrzu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w tym samym czasie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chciałam zobaczyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go osobiście&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;brakowało nam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go ponownie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Teraz czas na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;część&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;inspiracji.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ostatnich czterech lat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;próbowałem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bezskutecznie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znaleźć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;krewnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z mojej strony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ojców&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodziny.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Było to spowodowane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;głównie dlatego, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pochodzą z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;południowej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rekordy nie są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Poznaniu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W przeszłości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w lewo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiadomości na różne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tablice&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;genealogiczne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poszukiwania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Piekarczyk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dwa lata temu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wybrał się do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wsi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego dziadka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie znaleziono&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;krewnych.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Cóż, dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mały&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cud.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Otrzymałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;maila od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Piekarczyk&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;opowiadał mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziadek był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;również&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;brat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego dziadka.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ten człowiek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;urodził się w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miejscowości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Babić&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, która&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla mnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest wielkim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;coincdence&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miał wujka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, którego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nazwisko było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Babic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Co więcej,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miałem tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jedno zdjęcie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pradziadka,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jego żona i córka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, którą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dołączony do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiadomości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyszedłem.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W swoim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;e-mail&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do mnie,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ten człowiek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powiedział, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dokładnie ten sam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak niesamowite,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Czekałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawie 8 lat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby znaleźć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęcie mojego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziadka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;siostra&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;najstarszych i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po czterech latach,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowe drzwi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;otworzyła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na mojej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodzinie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, która&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chętnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wykonywać.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jest to naprawdę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czas Bożego Narodzenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-570955856422445319?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/570955856422445319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=570955856422445319&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/570955856422445319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/570955856422445319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/tired.html' title='Tired but inspired.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZM11Tv09N1Q/TuTMj1FtzaI/AAAAAAAAc7s/HQYwgRb7XPg/s72-c/7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-5364924105412100460</id><published>2011-12-10T09:50:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-10T09:55:17.756-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sculpture, cousin and palace.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D9rK7xc87EE/TuOAwd_cIsI/AAAAAAAAc68/C8952tUo2K8/s1600/IMG_9192.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D9rK7xc87EE/TuOAwd_cIsI/AAAAAAAAc68/C8952tUo2K8/s320/IMG_9192.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-beCQx0gmI68/TuOAzap-97I/AAAAAAAAc7E/yhNQn2TYhnY/s1600/IMG_9164.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-beCQx0gmI68/TuOAzap-97I/AAAAAAAAc7E/yhNQn2TYhnY/s320/IMG_9164.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5hA64W95SV8/TuOA2ZPu-eI/AAAAAAAAc7M/C86Q8Hx5Kdo/s1600/IMG_9204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5hA64W95SV8/TuOA2ZPu-eI/AAAAAAAAc7M/C86Q8Hx5Kdo/s320/IMG_9204.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A nice morning talking with two people and then we headed to the rynek to view the ice sculptures.&amp;nbsp; At first we didn't see them and I thought maybe I had the wrong information but as we rounded one corner where the Christmas kiosks were set up I saw two small sculptures and some men carrying another one to put in place.&amp;nbsp; As I was photographing them I heard my name being called and to my surprise it was cousin Paweł Mejer.&amp;nbsp; He was standing inside one of the kiosks selling coffee grounds from different countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We walked up and talked with him and he made us a sample of one of the coffees he had for sale.&amp;nbsp; It was very good, tasty and just the thing for a cold day.&amp;nbsp; We talked for a little while but he became busy with customers so we said goodbye and continued to walk around the rynek.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In front of the town hall stood the city Christmas tree and next to it was the stage where the ice sculptures were being made so naturally I took pictures.&amp;nbsp; Just around the next corner was a fenced area you could enter and inside of it were the more intricately carved figures of lions, reindeer, a sleigh, a bus and a chair.&lt;br /&gt;After taking pictures we headed for the Cacao Republik to have some hot chocolate with chili powder but before we got there we passed the palace in the square that is for sale now.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, the Republik was too full of people so we just went home instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miłe&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;rano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w rozmowie z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwóch osób,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;a następnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;udaliśmy się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rynek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;aby zobaczyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rzeźby z lodu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na początku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich nie widział,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i pomyślałem, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;złe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;informacje, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zaokrąglone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jednym rogu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, gdzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kioski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bożego Narodzenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zostały utworzone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;widziałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwa małe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rzeźby i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niektórych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mężczyzn niosących&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;innym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do wprowadzenia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;fotografowanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;usłyszałam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po imieniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i ku mojemu zdziwieniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kuzyn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Paweł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mejer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Stał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się w jednej z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kiosków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sprzedających&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;fusy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z różnych krajów.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Szliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmawialiśmy z nim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zrobił&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nam próbkę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jednego z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kawy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na sprzedaż.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To było bardzo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, smaczne i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;właśnie dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zimny dzień&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rozmawialiśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez chwilę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zajęty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z klientami&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, pożegnaliśmy się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i kontynuował&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spacer po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rynku.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Przed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ratuszem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miasta&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;choinka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;a obok niego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;etap, w którym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lodowe rzeźby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;były&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wykonane tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naturalnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;robił zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tuż&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;za rogiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ogrodzony teren&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;można&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wejść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wewnątrz niego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;były&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bardziej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;misternie rzeźbione&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;figury&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lwów,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;renifery,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, autobus&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i krzesła.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po zrobieniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;udaliśmy się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Cacao&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Republika&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieć trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gorącej czekolady&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chili w proszku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale zanim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tam dotarliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeszliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pałacu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na placu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, który jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na sprzedaż&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Niestety,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Republik&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;była zbyt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pełna ludzi,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc po prostu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wrócił do domu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zamiast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-5364924105412100460?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/5364924105412100460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=5364924105412100460&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5364924105412100460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5364924105412100460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/sculpture-cousin-and-palace.html' title='Sculpture, cousin and palace.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D9rK7xc87EE/TuOAwd_cIsI/AAAAAAAAc68/C8952tUo2K8/s72-c/IMG_9192.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-253561120546621899</id><published>2011-12-09T16:07:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T16:08:58.164-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Cleaning?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ITuFSyuf2Xc/TuKEnb6BACI/AAAAAAAAc0U/vf_4osCvoJ0/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ITuFSyuf2Xc/TuKEnb6BACI/AAAAAAAAc0U/vf_4osCvoJ0/s320/6.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thought seriously about cleaning our flat today but fortunately I was too busy with conversations to actually do it.&amp;nbsp; Tomorrow we'll go to the rynek to see the ice sculptures, also talk with a few people, so it looks like Sunday will be cleaning day and putting up the Christmas tree.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;December 7th, Ancestry.com had free access to military records and I was able to find records for my father, my uncles, Chester and Adam and was surprised to find draft registration cards for my grandfather Adam for World War II.&amp;nbsp; Amazing how much information is available over the internet for genealogical studies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myśli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poważnie o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czyszczenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszego mieszkania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale na szczęście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byłem zbyt zajęty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rzeczywiście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to zrobić.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jutro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;idziemy na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rynek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby zobaczyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rzeźby z lodu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a także&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;porozmawiać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z kilkoma osobami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wygląda na to,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niedziela ma być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzień sprzątania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i stawiania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;choinki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;7 grudnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ancestry.com&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miały swobodny dostęp do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wojskowej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ewidencji i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;udało mi się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znaleźć rekordy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego ojca,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wujków&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, Chester&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Adam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;była zdziwiona,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;karty rejestracyjne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;projekt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla mojego dziadka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Adama&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;II wojny światowej.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Niesamowite, jak wiele&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;informacji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest dostępna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez Internet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;badań genealogicznych&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-253561120546621899?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/253561120546621899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=253561120546621899&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/253561120546621899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/253561120546621899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/cleaning.html' title='Cleaning?'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ITuFSyuf2Xc/TuKEnb6BACI/AAAAAAAAc0U/vf_4osCvoJ0/s72-c/6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-2267193879127346803</id><published>2011-12-08T09:53:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T03:31:48.700-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New people.</title><content type='html'>Today I had conversations with two new people on the Exchange.&amp;nbsp; Both were very interesting to talk with and I think will be beneficial to my learning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-52HKx5kb2mk/TuDdaNolNNI/AAAAAAAAc0M/ogRDCr6Vblo/s1600/tomteninstadt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-52HKx5kb2mk/TuDdaNolNNI/AAAAAAAAc0M/ogRDCr6Vblo/s320/tomteninstadt.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The first was with a woman teacher from the Bezczady region and a teacher of Polish.&amp;nbsp; She wanted to use the exchange to have more contact with a native speaker of English and I think I qualify as that.&amp;nbsp; Since she is a Polish teacher I think I can learn a lot from her about the language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second was from a native Pole who is living in New York for the next few months working on her Phd. Both of these ladies are speaking to me in English and I reply in Polish although I'm sure it is harder for them because my level of Polish is not equal to their level of English and they correct me far more than I correct them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Poznań today is was windy and cold but we only had to go outside once to do our weekly shopping for food.&amp;nbsp; This week it cost 124 zl for what we needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two weeks from today we will land in Chicago and Christmas will begin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" lang="pl"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś miałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmowę z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwóch nowych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ludzi na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ecxhange&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oba były&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bardzo interesujące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozmawiać i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;myślę, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie korzystny dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojej nauki&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pierwszy był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z nauczycielem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kobieta&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bezczady&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;regionu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i nauczyciel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;języka polskiego.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chciała&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skorzystać z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wymiany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieć więcej kontaktów z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;native speaker&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;języka angielskiego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i myślę, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przysługuje mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Od kiedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polski nauczyciel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślę, że mogę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się wiele nauczyć od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;temat języka&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Druga była&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodowitym Polakiem&lt;/span&gt;, który &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszka w Nowym Jorku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilka miesięcy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pracuje nad&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;doktoratem&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Obie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;panie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówią&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do mnie po angielsku&lt;/span&gt;, a ja &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiedź&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w języku polskim&lt;/span&gt;, chociaż &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jestem pewien, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;im trudniej&lt;/span&gt;, ponieważ mój &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poziom polskiego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest równa ich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poziom znajomości języka angielskiego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawidłowe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bardziej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niż ja&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich poprawiania.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;W Poznaniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było wietrznie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zimno, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieliśmy tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyjść na zewnątrz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;raz do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszych cotygodniowych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zakupów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żywności.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W tym tygodniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kosztuje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;124&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zł za&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to, czego potrzebowaliśmy&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dwa tygodnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziś będziemy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ziemi w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i Boże Narodzenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozpocznie&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="spell-place-holder" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools"&gt;&lt;div id="gt-src-tools-l"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools-r"&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Listen" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-listen-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Listen" id="gt-res-listen" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Read phonetically" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-roman-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Read phonetically" id="gt-res-roman" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Rate translation" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Rate translation" id="gt-res-rate"&gt;&lt;div aria-haspopup="true" class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button" role="button" tabindex="0" title="" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-outer-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-inner-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-caption" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-flat-menu-button-img gt-rate-icon jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2267193879127346803?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2267193879127346803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2267193879127346803&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2267193879127346803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2267193879127346803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-people.html' title='New people.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-52HKx5kb2mk/TuDdaNolNNI/AAAAAAAAc0M/ogRDCr6Vblo/s72-c/tomteninstadt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-696997296256973926</id><published>2011-12-07T04:16:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T04:17:48.661-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Dec 7, 1941</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-22eMLNvs54w/Tt88t8dKaKI/AAAAAAAAczs/k3FJu3jFh3I/s1600/HARBOR-articleLarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="176" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-22eMLNvs54w/Tt88t8dKaKI/AAAAAAAAczs/k3FJu3jFh3I/s320/HARBOR-articleLarge.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pearl Harbor.................."A day that will live in infamy".&amp;nbsp; It is slowly fading into the history books with the passing of generations and soon it will be like&amp;nbsp;the Boston Tea Party or the War for Independece, just something you read about in a history book.&amp;nbsp; For more than half a century, members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association gathered there every Dec. 7 to commemorate the attack by the Japanese that drew the United States into World War II. Others stayed closer to home for more intimate regional chapter ceremonies, sharing memories of a day they still remember in searing detail.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="articleBody"&gt;But no more. The 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack will be the last one marked by the survivors’ association. With a concession to the reality of time — of age, of deteriorating health and death — the association will disband on Dec. 31.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pearl Harbor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;.................."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzień&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie mieszkać w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;hańby "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powoli odchodzą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do historii&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pokoleniach&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wkrótce będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Boston Tea&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Party&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Wojnie o Niepodległość&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;coś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeczytać w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;książce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;historii.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Przez ponad&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pół wieku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, członkowie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pearl Harbor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Survivors&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Stowarzyszenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zebrało się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;07 grudnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z okazji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ataku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez Japończyków&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że zwrócił&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Stanów Zjednoczonych do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;II wojny światowej.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Inni pozostali&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bliżej domu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bardziej kameralnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;uroczystości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;regionalnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozdziału,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzielenia się wspomnieniami&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dnia ciągle&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pamiętać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;piekący&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szczegółów.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ale nie więcej.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;70. rocznica&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pearl Harbor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;atak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ostatni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oznaczone&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez stowarzyszenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodzinne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;koncesji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na rzeczywistość&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czasu -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;życia,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdrowia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pogarsza się i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;śmierci&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;- stowarzyszenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozwiązać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;31 grudnia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-696997296256973926?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/696997296256973926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=696997296256973926&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/696997296256973926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/696997296256973926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/dec-7-1941.html' title='Dec 7, 1941'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-22eMLNvs54w/Tt88t8dKaKI/AAAAAAAAczs/k3FJu3jFh3I/s72-c/HARBOR-articleLarge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7258373146658710281</id><published>2011-12-06T10:10:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T12:06:18.553-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sw. Mikolaj!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zxogSI81ki4/Tt5ZZDTIzcI/AAAAAAAAczg/L2wNoJMy0do/s1600/387700_10150456635027893_376101312892_8760744_2011704087_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zxogSI81ki4/Tt5ZZDTIzcI/AAAAAAAAczg/L2wNoJMy0do/s320/387700_10150456635027893_376101312892_8760744_2011704087_n.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Christmas tree in our rynek&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nBvc77IzyOc/Tt5AhxMk5lI/AAAAAAAAczY/_WLIOz1D0hk/s1600/15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nBvc77IzyOc/Tt5AhxMk5lI/AAAAAAAAczY/_WLIOz1D0hk/s320/15.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The feast of St. Nicholas is December 6th. On this day, Sw. Mikolaj would visit the homes of people in the village, dressed in his bishop's robes. When Sw. Mikolaj visited the children, he gave them a gift for being good and to remind them of the gifts given to the Christ Child by the Three Kings. Celebrating the feast day of Sw. Mikolaj remains popular with Polish people living all over the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the Christmas customs celebrated today are a result of the early visits made by St. Nicholas. For example, the candy cane given during the Christmas holidays is a simple treat symbolizing the shepherd's staff, which is carried by a bishop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sw. Mikolaj is called the "Father of Christmas", known to children in America as "Santa Claus".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;W święto św&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mikołaj jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;6 grudnia.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W tym dniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Św.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mikołaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odwiedzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;domy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszkańców wsi&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ubrany w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szaty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;biskupa&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kiedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ul.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mikołaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odwiedził&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzieci&lt;/span&gt;, dał im &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bycia dobrym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przypomnieć im o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;darami&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzieciątka Jezus&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Trzech Króli.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Obchody&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w święto&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Św.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mikołaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pozostaje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;popularny wśród&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polskich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ludzi żyjących&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na całym świecie&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wiele&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chrześcijańskich zwyczajów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są wynikiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pierwszych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wizyt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Św.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na przykład,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;candy cane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podany podczas&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świąt Bożego Narodzenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest proste&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;traktować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;symbolizujące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pracowników&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pasterza,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest przenoszony przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;biskupa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Św.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mikołaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nazywany jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;"Ojcem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Boże Narodzenie&lt;/span&gt;", znane &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzieciom&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Ameryce, jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;"Santa Claus"&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7258373146658710281?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7258373146658710281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7258373146658710281&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7258373146658710281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7258373146658710281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/sw-mikolaj.html' title='Sw. Mikolaj!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zxogSI81ki4/Tt5ZZDTIzcI/AAAAAAAAczg/L2wNoJMy0do/s72-c/387700_10150456635027893_376101312892_8760744_2011704087_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-2094455145448172930</id><published>2011-12-05T03:30:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-05T10:53:06.509-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New train station.</title><content type='html'>The old train station is being replaced by this new one in the video below. However, the opening date is more likely November 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry, earlier in the day there was a video but it dissappeared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-_SSFE8xzwc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2094455145448172930?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2094455145448172930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2094455145448172930&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2094455145448172930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2094455145448172930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post.html' title='New train station.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/-_SSFE8xzwc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4516914008340968034</id><published>2011-12-04T10:05:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T10:08:02.475-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas past.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DdzHSgxECqI/TtuMnNYJfnI/AAAAAAAAczE/C4b_jR757cY/s1600/31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DdzHSgxECqI/TtuMnNYJfnI/AAAAAAAAczE/C4b_jR757cY/s320/31.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Another night of żurek for dinner, my favorite soup.&amp;nbsp; Earlier I wrote about how I hoped there would be some snow in Chicago for Christmas because it seems strange without it at that time.&amp;nbsp; When I was growing up we always had snow so I relate that with Christmas.&amp;nbsp; Of course, times have changed and so snow in never a certainty now for Christmas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;As a young boy growing up in a housing project called Columbia Center, there was always snow at that time.&amp;nbsp; The sidewalk in front of our house went downhill and the hill was used by a lot of kids for sledding.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately there was a not so nice man who lived at the bottom, Mr. Whitaker, and occassionally he would take the ashes from the coal stove that heated houses and throw them on the bottom of the hill to stop the sleds. A few time my mother argued with him about that but it didn't stop him from doing it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We had two coal stoves in our house, one for heating the house and a smaller one for heating water when we needed it for bathing or doing dishes.&amp;nbsp; There wasn't any shower in those days so we had to use a bathtub on the second floor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;On the first floor was a kitchen, dining room, living room and closet.&amp;nbsp; On the second floor were two bedrooms, one for my mother and one for my brother and I.&amp;nbsp; When we didn't have enough coal for the night my mother would take the rugs off the floor and put them over us as we slept to keep us warm.&amp;nbsp; The heating stove was also good for stringing picked mushrooms and drying them out for future use.&amp;nbsp; For people in my age at that time, 10-14 years old, coal was also a source of income for us because when the coal was delivered in front of someones house it had to be carried from the street and put into the coal bin that was attached in front of the house.&amp;nbsp; Older people couldn't do that so for five dollars for a half ton of coal we would move the coal and make a little money.&amp;nbsp; In the summer we could earn money by cutting the grass of the elderly people's houses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Of course, Christmas eve was the most special time, waiting for that first star to appear, then Wigilia with cousins, aunts, uncles and family.&amp;nbsp; There weren't many presents but each one was special, sometimes handmade and then outside for a snowball fight with cousins.&amp;nbsp; 11:00 always meant getting ready to go to midnight mass and then back home to bed to wait for Christmas morning to see what Santa brought. I miss those times, I just can't seem to find that feeling anymore about Christmas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9;" title="Another night of żurek for dinner, my favorite soup."&gt;Kolejna noc z żurek na obiad, moja ulubiona zupa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Earlier I wrote about how I hoped there would be some snow in Chicago for Christmas because it seems strange without it at that time."&gt;Wcześniej pisałem o tym, jak miałam nadzieję, że będzie trochę śniegu w Chicago na Boże Narodzenie, ponieważ wydaje się dziwne, bez niego w tym czasie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="When I was growing up we always had snow so I relate that with Christmas."&gt;Kiedy dorastałem, zawsze mieliśmy śniegu, więc opowiem, że z Bożym Narodzeniem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Of course, times have changed and so snow in never a certainty now for Christmas."&gt;Oczywiście, czasy się zmieniły i tak śniegu nie pewności teraz na Boże Narodzenie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="As a young boy growing up in a housing project called Columbia Center, there was always snow at that time."&gt;Jako młody chłopiec dorastający w osiedlu o nazwie Columbia Center, zawsze był śnieg w tym czasie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The sidewalk in front of our house went downhill and the hill was used by a lot of kids for sledding."&gt;Chodniku przed domem poszedł w dół wzgórza i był używany przez wiele dzieci na sankach. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Unfortunately there was a not so nice man who lived at the bottom, Mr. Whitaker, and occassionally he would take the ashes from the coal stove that heated houses and throw them on the bottom of the hill to stop the sleds."&gt;Niestety nie było nie tak miły człowiek, który mieszkał na dole, pan Whitaker, i od czasu do czasu zabierze popiół z pieca węglowego, które ogrzewa domy i wrzucą ich w dolnej części wzgórza, aby zatrzymać sanki. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="A few time my mother argued with him about that but it didn't stop him from doing it."&gt;Kilka czasie moja matka argumentował z nim o tym, ale nie przeszkodziło mu to robić.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="We had two coal stoves in our house, one for heating the house and a smaller one for heating water when we needed it for bathing or doing dishes."&gt;Mieliśmy dwa piece węglowe w naszym domu, jeden do ogrzewania domu i mniejszy do podgrzewania wody, gdy potrzebowaliśmy go do kąpieli lub przy przyrządzaniu potraw. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="There wasn't any shower in those days so we had to use a bathtub on the second floor."&gt;Nie było prysznic w tamtych czasach musieliśmy korzystać z wanny na drugim piętrze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="On the first floor was a kitchen, dining room, living room and closet."&gt;Na pierwszym piętrze była kuchnia, jadalnia, pokój dzienny i szafy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="On the second floor were two bedrooms, one for my mother and one for my brother and I. When we didn't have enough coal for the night my mother would take the rugs off the floor and put them over us as we slept to keep"&gt;Na drugim piętrze są dwie sypialnie, jedna dla mojej matki i dla mojego brata i I. Gdy nie ma wystarczającej ilości węgla na noc moja matka brała dywaniki z podłogi i umieścić je na nas, jak spaliśmy do utrzymania &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="us warm."&gt;nas ciepło. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="The heating stove was also good for stringing picked mushrooms and drying them out for future use."&gt;Piec był również dobry dla sznurka zbierane grzyby i suszenie ich na przyszłość. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="For people in my age at that time, 10-14 years old, coal was also a source of income for us because when the coal was delivered in front of someones house it had to be carried from the street and put into the coal bin that"&gt;Dla ludzi w moim wieku w tym czasie, 10-14 lat, węgiel był także źródłem dochodów dla nas, bo gdy węgiel był dostarczany przed czyimś domu trzeba było ją z ulicy i umieścić w pojemniku węgla, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="was attached in front of the house."&gt;został dołączony w przedniej części domu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Older people couldn't do that so for five dollars for a half ton of coal we would move the coal and make a little money."&gt;Starsi ludzie nie mogli tego zrobić tak przez pięć dolarów za tonę pół węgla moglibyśmy przenieść węgla i zarobić trochę pieniędzy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="In the summer we could earn money by cutting the grass of the elderly people's houses."&gt;W lecie możemy zarabiać na cięcia trawy domów osób starszych.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Of course, Christmas eve was the most special time, waiting for that first star to appear, then Wigilia with cousins, aunts, uncles and family."&gt;Oczywiście, Wigilia była najbardziej szczególny czas, czekając, że pierwsza gwiazda pojawi się, to Wigilia z kuzynów, ciotek, wujków i rodziny. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="There weren't many presents but each one was special, sometimes handmade and then outside for a snowball fight with cousins."&gt;Nie było wiele, ale każdy z nich prezentuje się specjalne, czasami ręcznie, a następnie na zewnątrz do walki na śnieżki z kuzynami. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="11:00 always meant getting ready to go to midnight mass and then back home to bed to wait for Christmas morning to see what Santa brought."&gt;11:00 zawsze oznaczało przygotowuje się do do pasterki, a następnie z powrotem do domu spać czekać na Boże Narodzenie rano, aby zobaczyć co w Santa przyniósł. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="I miss those times, I just can't seem to find that feeling anymore about Christmas."&gt;Brakuje mi tych czasów, po prostu nie wydaje się znaleźć uczucie, że już o Świętach Bożego Narodzenia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4516914008340968034?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4516914008340968034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4516914008340968034&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4516914008340968034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4516914008340968034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-past.html' title='Christmas past.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DdzHSgxECqI/TtuMnNYJfnI/AAAAAAAAczE/C4b_jR757cY/s72-c/31.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-5161528292101357539</id><published>2011-12-03T08:50:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T09:15:20.088-06:00</updated><title type='text'>LED or no?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qpEsqMCdwY/Tto88IRIr8I/AAAAAAAAcyw/KdO4WeL2nRw/s1600/weekpics-12211-2-600x405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qpEsqMCdwY/Tto88IRIr8I/AAAAAAAAcyw/KdO4WeL2nRw/s320/weekpics-12211-2-600x405.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a2CP1hgf600/Tto65wa1PaI/AAAAAAAAcyo/adISvjCiew0/s1600/378168_2338161332314_1198308927_32021266_488877327_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a2CP1hgf600/Tto65wa1PaI/AAAAAAAAcyo/adISvjCiew0/s320/378168_2338161332314_1198308927_32021266_488877327_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;First snow in Michigan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OUb-lJZN8xA/TtoxQkGOa-I/AAAAAAAAcyg/5i3bgazyqaQ/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OUb-lJZN8xA/TtoxQkGOa-I/AAAAAAAAcyg/5i3bgazyqaQ/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The day passed without a lot of activity.&amp;nbsp; We did go to the Plaza and buy a few presents for the grandkids and butterscotch candy for Joan.&amp;nbsp; We went to Lidl looking for Lindt chocolate with chili powder in it but didn't find it at the one we went to.&amp;nbsp; It must be in another of their stores. We've have hot liquid chocolate with chili powder in it at the Cacao Republic and it was delicious.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;After Lidl we had to make a stop to buy kabanosa for tomorrow's żurek and a little ham for sandwiches during the week.&amp;nbsp; We also checked out LED christmas lights for the tree but they are so expensive. 140 lights on one string cost 119zl.&amp;nbsp; The conventional kind cost 15 zl for 100 lights. Of course, the conventional kind are a problem when one light burns out because they all turn off but at the difference in price it's cheaper to just replace the whole line.&amp;nbsp; The problem with that is when the tree is decorated and a line goes out, it's hard to remove it from under all the decorations.&amp;nbsp; I guess next week will be the time to put up the tree and enjoy it before our trip.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzień minął&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bez większych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;działań.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mieliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;udać się na Plaza&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kupić kilka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prezentów dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wnuków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i cukierki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;toffi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Poszliśmy do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Lidl&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szukasz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Lindt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czekolada z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chili&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w proszku&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie znalazł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jednej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poszliśmy&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Musi być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w innym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sklepów.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieć gorące&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;płynna czekolada&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chili w proszku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w nim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Cacao&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Republika&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było pyszne&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Lidl&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do zatrzymania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kupić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kabanosa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na jutrzejszy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żurek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szynki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na kanapki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ciągu tygodnia.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mamy również&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyrejestrowany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;LED&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Boże Narodzenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla drzewa&lt;/span&gt;, ale są tak &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drogie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;140&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świateł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na jednej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;koszt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;119zl&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;łańcuch.&lt;/span&gt;Konwencjonalnych &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodzaju&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cenie 15&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zł&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do 100&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świateł.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oczywiście&lt;/span&gt;, konwencjonalne &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodzaju są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;problemem, gdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jedno światło&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pali&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponieważ wszystkie one&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyłączyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;różnica w cenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;taniej jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po prostu zastąpić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;całej linii.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Problem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z tym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt;, gdy drzewo jest &lt;span class="hps"&gt;urządzone i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;linii&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wychodzi&lt;/span&gt;, trudno &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go usunąć z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pod&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystkie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dekoracje.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślę, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w przyszłym tygodniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czas, by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się na drzewo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i cieszyć się nim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszą podróż&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-5161528292101357539?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/5161528292101357539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=5161528292101357539&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5161528292101357539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5161528292101357539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-passed-without-lot-of-activity.html' title='LED or no?'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qpEsqMCdwY/Tto88IRIr8I/AAAAAAAAcyw/KdO4WeL2nRw/s72-c/weekpics-12211-2-600x405.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7294623233614422301</id><published>2011-12-02T04:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-02T04:08:38.196-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Memory!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQaAdXlIa14/TtigqbhCiuI/AAAAAAAAcx0/ulzby3v6B_A/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQaAdXlIa14/TtigqbhCiuI/AAAAAAAAcx0/ulzby3v6B_A/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This picture reminds me of Christmas in the U.P. when we had so much snow but no electricity outside and no neighbors houses within sight. One time, for New's Years eve we had a party at our house and I came up with the idea of making large candles to light the way to our house.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I took five gallon buckets, filled them with water in the morning and put them outside. By the afternoon they were almost completely frozen but before they froze I made a hole in them to drain out the remaining water.&amp;nbsp; Instead of having a solid ice form I had a shell of the form and in this form, at the bottom, I put a candle that reflected light through the shell.&amp;nbsp; I think I made about 20 of them in all and lined our road with the lights when it got dark in the evening.&amp;nbsp; The snow banks were already high from previous snowfalls so the lights were rather high in the air. I liked the idea very much and all of our guests commented on how great it looked at the approached out&amp;nbsp;house.&amp;nbsp; We were using battery power at the time so the Christmas tree was lit&amp;nbsp;up and visible from the road.&amp;nbsp; It was a good party and after midnight, with a bright moon to show the way, some of us went for a little ski trip around our property. It's a good holiday memory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7294623233614422301?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7294623233614422301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7294623233614422301&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7294623233614422301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7294623233614422301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/memory.html' title='Memory!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQaAdXlIa14/TtigqbhCiuI/AAAAAAAAcx0/ulzby3v6B_A/s72-c/2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-3478835896858390741</id><published>2011-12-01T10:14:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T10:17:23.293-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Opening Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ogZUqldfg_E/TteobcsK6NI/AAAAAAAAcxs/YyqX0cDvHKc/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ogZUqldfg_E/TteobcsK6NI/AAAAAAAAcxs/YyqX0cDvHKc/s320/3.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KQ1r5xk_6bE/TtenHcYkFTI/AAAAAAAAcxU/Rcm_UcN4myU/s1600/390116_10150445703912893_376101312892_8727690_2138529803_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KQ1r5xk_6bE/TtenHcYkFTI/AAAAAAAAcxU/Rcm_UcN4myU/s320/390116_10150445703912893_376101312892_8727690_2138529803_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oHNtvahkTR8/TtenNcrwifI/AAAAAAAAcxc/ZLjX0B94KkY/s1600/383277_10150445703647893_376101312892_8727688_236996849_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oHNtvahkTR8/TtenNcrwifI/AAAAAAAAcxc/ZLjX0B94KkY/s320/383277_10150445703647893_376101312892_8727688_236996849_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cSw9fudnUqY/TtenRNtTgRI/AAAAAAAAcxk/Eu8_MOYlTRI/s1600/383665_10150445703792893_376101312892_8727689_1389884146_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cSw9fudnUqY/TtenRNtTgRI/AAAAAAAAcxk/Eu8_MOYlTRI/s320/383665_10150445703792893_376101312892_8727689_1389884146_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The big news of the day is the final opening of the motorway A2.&amp;nbsp; This is a big thing, folks.&amp;nbsp; It allows you to drive on a superhighway from Poznań to Berlin and elminiates stopping in every little village along the way like the old road did.&amp;nbsp; Two hours to Berlin, or less, can be the travel time instead of 3 to 3 1/2 hours like before.&amp;nbsp; It was such a big event that the President of Poland gave the&amp;nbsp;opening day address.&amp;nbsp; It's 197 km from Poznań to Berlin and the average minimum speed will be 120 so you could be in Berlin two hours. It takes me one hour and 10 minutes to drive 80 km to Golina on the old highway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wielkim wydarzeniem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dnia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest ostatnim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;otwarcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;autostrady A2.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jest to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wielka rzecz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ludzie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pozwala na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dysk, na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;autostradzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z Poznania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do Berlina i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;elminiates&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zatrzymania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w każdej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiosce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po drodze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;starej drogi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dwie godziny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do Berlina,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lub mniej,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;może być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czas podróży&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zamiast 3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;1 / 2 godziny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, jak poprzednio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wielkie wydarzenie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że Prezes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska dała&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;adres&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dniu otwarcia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;197 km&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z Poznania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do Berlina,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;a średnia prędkość&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;minimalna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wyniesie 120&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więc można&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Berlinie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dwie godziny.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zajmuje mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;godzinę i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;10 minut&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jazdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;80 km&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do Goliny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na starej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;autostrady.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-3478835896858390741?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/3478835896858390741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=3478835896858390741&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3478835896858390741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/3478835896858390741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/12/opening-day.html' title='Opening Day'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ogZUqldfg_E/TteobcsK6NI/AAAAAAAAcxs/YyqX0cDvHKc/s72-c/3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-2263674490267992852</id><published>2011-11-30T11:01:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T11:13:39.008-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Three weeks.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qv2LsEd07_M/TtZkMboVDkI/AAAAAAAAcxA/aj-IVTAXmjI/s1600/beatles-christmas-song-wallpapers-1024x768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qv2LsEd07_M/TtZkMboVDkI/AAAAAAAAcxA/aj-IVTAXmjI/s320/beatles-christmas-song-wallpapers-1024x768.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Three weeks to go and we're on our way to Chicago. It's gonna feel a little strange being in an English speaking environment again and to see the changes that&amp;nbsp;have occured in the past four years.&amp;nbsp; Looking forward to see the Christmas lights everywhere, that's something I miss&amp;nbsp;during Christmas.&amp;nbsp; We debated about whether or not we should even put a tree up this year since we won't be here for Christmas but decided to do it anyway so it's here before we go and when we return.&amp;nbsp; Maybe we'll do it this weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read the most ridiculous story yesterday.The grandson of Joseph Stalin has launched a libel suit against one of  Russia's leading liberal newspapers, accusing it of lying in an article which  stated Stalin had killed Soviet citizens.is petitioning the Russian government to ask for an apology.&amp;nbsp; Liberal critics say that the drive to rehabilitate Stalin has official  backing, with the Kremlin keen to glorify Russia's Soviet past and make Russians  proud of their history, while glossing over Stalin's crimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na trzy tygodnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jesteśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na drodze do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chicago.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czuć się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę dziwnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;języku angielskim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;środowiska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówiąc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponownie i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zobaczyć zmiany&lt;/span&gt;, jakie zaszły w &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciągu ostatnich czterech lat&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Patrząc w przyszłość&lt;/span&gt;, aby zobaczyć &lt;span class="hps"&gt;światła Bożego Narodzenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszędzie,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest coś, czego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przegapić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w czasie Bożego Narodzenia&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dyskutowaliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o tym, czy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt;, czy też powinniśmy &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeszcze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;umieścić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drzewa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w tym roku&lt;/span&gt;, ponieważ &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie będziemy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tutaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na Boże Narodzenie&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;postanowiłem zrobić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to tak&lt;/span&gt;, więc jest to &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tutaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zanim pójdziemy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po powrocie&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zrobimy to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ten weekend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Czytałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;najbardziej śmieszne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wnuk&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;yesterday.The&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;historia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Józefa Stalina&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozpoczęła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zniesławienie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeciwko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jednej z wiodących&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gazet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;liberalnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Rosji&lt;/span&gt;, oskarżając &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o kłamstwo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;artykule, który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stwierdził,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Stalin&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zabił&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;radziecki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;citizens.is&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;petycje do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rządu rosyjskiego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z prośbą o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeprosin.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Liberalni krytycy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówią&lt;/span&gt;, że dążenie do &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rehabilitacji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Stalina&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;oficjalnego wsparcia&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chętnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kremla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do gloryfikowania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeszłości sowieckiej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rosji i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rosjan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dumni ze swojej historii&lt;/span&gt;, a &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tuszowanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zbrodni stalinowskich&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2263674490267992852?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2263674490267992852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2263674490267992852&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2263674490267992852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2263674490267992852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/three-weeks.html' title='Three weeks.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qv2LsEd07_M/TtZkMboVDkI/AAAAAAAAcxA/aj-IVTAXmjI/s72-c/beatles-christmas-song-wallpapers-1024x768.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-6738662563511939494</id><published>2011-11-29T10:41:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T10:43:54.624-06:00</updated><title type='text'>A real family Thanksgiving dinner!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7C1--d6rsEI/TtUJXKmzh-I/AAAAAAAAcwI/JBUd6ZFj4MY/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="290" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7C1--d6rsEI/TtUJXKmzh-I/AAAAAAAAcwI/JBUd6ZFj4MY/s320/11.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0stwGGnSiCQ/TtUJYqPLnUI/AAAAAAAAcwQ/3Q_bp9H9KyE/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0stwGGnSiCQ/TtUJYqPLnUI/AAAAAAAAcwQ/3Q_bp9H9KyE/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8gQyY3_u7cc/TtUJZ_GeSxI/AAAAAAAAcwY/F_ua_T5H9S0/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8gQyY3_u7cc/TtUJZ_GeSxI/AAAAAAAAcwY/F_ua_T5H9S0/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;family of Genevieve Rajewski continues to amaze me when it comes to special occassions to celebrate.&amp;nbsp; Genevieve is the oldest member in Michigan of the Rajewski side of my family. My great grandmother was Ludwika Rajewski Kazmierczak.&amp;nbsp; Every time I see pictures of these dinners and how all of the relatives come together, daughters, sons, aunts, uncles, children, grandchildren, it lets me know it is possible for a large family to be together and concerned about each other.&amp;nbsp; At this dinner, 55 people were there to celebrate Thanksgiving.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rodzina&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Genevieve&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rajewski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nadal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zadziwia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mnie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, jeśli chodzi o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;specjalne okazje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do świętowania.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Genevieve&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest najstarszym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;członkiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Michigan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;strony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rajewski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojej rodziny.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Moja&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prababcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;była&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ludwika&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rajewski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Kaźmierczak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Za każdym razem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;widzę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z tych obiadów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystkie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodziny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;spotykają się,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;córki,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;synów,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciotek, wujków&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, dzieci, wnuki,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pozwala mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiedzieć, że jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to możliwe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dużej rodziny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby być razem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zainteresowanych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o sobie nawzajem.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tej kolacji&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, 55&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;osób zostało&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świętować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziękczynienia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-6738662563511939494?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/6738662563511939494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=6738662563511939494&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6738662563511939494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6738662563511939494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/real-family-thanksgiving-dinner.html' title='A real family Thanksgiving dinner!'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7C1--d6rsEI/TtUJXKmzh-I/AAAAAAAAcwI/JBUd6ZFj4MY/s72-c/11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-6072940927603834457</id><published>2011-11-28T04:44:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-28T04:47:43.135-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Riding</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xme0G9P__jA/TtNiMp5A6eI/AAAAAAAAcs8/BmJ3jlls__0/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xme0G9P__jA/TtNiMp5A6eI/AAAAAAAAcs8/BmJ3jlls__0/s320/3.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HOeZuZn1XLs/TtNimQvlk3I/AAAAAAAActE/SVqDkdb1LuI/s1600/65.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HOeZuZn1XLs/TtNimQvlk3I/AAAAAAAActE/SVqDkdb1LuI/s320/65.bmp" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cMKuEYD-RIc/TtNituwXmzI/AAAAAAAActM/BQSKgogYHYk/s1600/56.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cMKuEYD-RIc/TtNituwXmzI/AAAAAAAActM/BQSKgogYHYk/s320/56.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E6Klhe9NdK8/TtNjHJMYb_I/AAAAAAAActs/fPmHhTeOE5w/s1600/128.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E6Klhe9NdK8/TtNjHJMYb_I/AAAAAAAActs/fPmHhTeOE5w/s320/128.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horses have always played an important part in Polish history. From the early days of Poland until now, horses have been important.&amp;nbsp; We have in our family, from our Rajewski side, a young cousin who has this feeling about horses in her blood and is doing something about it.&amp;nbsp; Thanks to the internet world I've been able to watch her progress and see pictures as she has developed into a good competitive rider in the state of Michigan where she lives with her parents. She is already winning awards for her&amp;nbsp;capabilty to ride and last week she won another, the Queen's Award. It's one that she can add to her collection of many others that she has already won, including blue ribbons in competitions.&amp;nbsp; I've always wanted to be a rider and seeing her gives me motivation to try next year, even at age 67. So I just wanted to say congratulations to you Bree, you are my riding hero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Konie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zawsze odgrywały&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ważną rolę w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;historii Polski.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Od pierwszych dni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do tej pory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, konie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;były ważne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w naszej rodzinie,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z naszej strony&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Rajewski&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, młodego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kuzyna, który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma się wrażenie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o koniach&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w jej krwi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;robi coś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na ten temat.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dzięki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świata&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;internetu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;byłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w stanie oglądać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;postępy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zobacz zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak ona&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stała się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobrym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zawodnikiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;konkurencyjnej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w stanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Michigan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, gdzie mieszka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z rodzicami.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ona już&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdobywa nagrody&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;capabilty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do jazdy i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ubiegłym tygodniu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdobyła&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drugiego,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Królowej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Award.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To jedno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;może dodać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do swojej kolekcji&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wielu innych&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;już wygrał&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, w tym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niebieskie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wstążki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w konkursach.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zawsze chciałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zawodnikiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i widząc ją,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;daje mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;motywację&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby spróbować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w przyszłym roku,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nawet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;67 lat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;chciałem po prostu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powiedzieć,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gratulacje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, jesteś moim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bohaterem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jazdy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-6072940927603834457?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/6072940927603834457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=6072940927603834457&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6072940927603834457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/6072940927603834457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/riding.html' title='Riding'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xme0G9P__jA/TtNiMp5A6eI/AAAAAAAAcs8/BmJ3jlls__0/s72-c/3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-1456310005348670990</id><published>2011-11-27T01:30:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-27T01:34:26.964-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Story</title><content type='html'>Posted on the right side is another untold story of Poland.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-1456310005348670990?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/1456310005348670990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=1456310005348670990&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/1456310005348670990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/1456310005348670990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/httpwww.html' title='Story'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-9001100021748523240</id><published>2011-11-26T10:22:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T12:21:24.311-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sołacz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ezK19Xh_o4c/TtESPwCOR6I/AAAAAAAAcs0/pNYL83U0q9I/s1600/240PX-%257E1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ezK19Xh_o4c/TtESPwCOR6I/AAAAAAAAcs0/pNYL83U0q9I/s1600/240PX-%257E1.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In today's Głos Wielkopolska paper was a nice pull-out magazine about Sołacz park and&amp;nbsp;neighborhood. It told how it was planned in 1886 but didn't actually start being built until 1906 by a different architect. There were stories of the famous (locally) families built there houses there including one aristocratic family from the Czartoryski bloodline. We have a friend who lives there so we are familiar with the park but it was nice to see this article about it's history.&amp;nbsp; I'm going to be brave and try to translate it into English for myself as a little homework project assigned by me. It's going to take a while since it's about ten pages in length with many words I don't know yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;W dzisiejszym&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Głos&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wielkopolski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;papier&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był miły&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wysuwaną&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;magazyn o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Sołacz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;parku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i okolicy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Opisywał, jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;planowano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w 1886 roku&lt;/span&gt;, ale nie &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zacząć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;budowane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;1906 roku przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;innego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;architekta.&lt;/span&gt; Tam było o&lt;span class="hps"&gt;powieści o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;słynnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;(lokalnie)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodziny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wybudowano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tam domy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w tym jeden&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;arystokratycznej rodziny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Czartoryskich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rodu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przyjaciela, który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieszka tam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobrze znamy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;parku, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miło było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znaleźć w tym artykule&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o jego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;historii.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zamierzam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;być odważny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i spróbuj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to przetłumaczyć na angielski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla mnie jako&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mały projekt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;domowe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przypisane przez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mnie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trochę potrwać&lt;/span&gt;, ponieważ jest to &lt;span class="hps"&gt;około dziesięciu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stron długości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wielu słów,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie wiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeszcze&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-9001100021748523240?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/9001100021748523240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=9001100021748523240&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/9001100021748523240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/9001100021748523240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/soacz.html' title='Sołacz'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ezK19Xh_o4c/TtESPwCOR6I/AAAAAAAAcs0/pNYL83U0q9I/s72-c/240PX-%257E1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4142652026947398389</id><published>2011-11-25T22:57:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T23:01:39.044-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Progress, pie and ink.</title><content type='html'>Yes, the apple pie was delicious and still have some left for today. Hard to eat dinner when you know there is still pie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sunny day for a change and fairly warm, almost 10c, so a good day for a walk after our Polish lessons. I got an early start on next weeks homework and have it almost finished so that's out of the way and I'll have mroe time to study other phases of the language. I had three people tell me this week that my Polish was getting better and maybe it is but it's hard to tell for me.&amp;nbsp; I still struggle getting out the sentences and although my vocabulary has expanded I find myself using too many of the same words when I know others. I've been here four years and four year olds speak better than I so I guess I'm like a three year old :-)&amp;nbsp; No..........even they speak better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My printer ran out of ink today so I had to go buy a new print cartridge at Media Mart and the cost of ink is high.&amp;nbsp; My (black only) cartridge cost 309 zl and get this..........the cost of a new printer like I have is 249zl.&amp;nbsp; So, basically, it's almost better to buy a new printer than just a cartridge.&amp;nbsp; How wierd is that.&amp;nbsp; Talk about a disposable society!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tak,&lt;/span&gt; szarlotka &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było pyszne i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeszcze trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na dziś.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Trudno&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kolację, kiedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiesz, że istnieje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeszcze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciasto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Słoneczny dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na zmianę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dość&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciepły, prawie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;10c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobry dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na spacer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lekcjach polskiego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wczesny start&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na następnej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pracy domowej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tygodni i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawie gotowy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z drogi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i będę miał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więcej czasu na studia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;inne fazy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;języka.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Miałam trzy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ludzie mówią mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w tym tygodniu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mój polski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;coraz lepszy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to jest, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trudno&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powiedzieć,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla mnie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jeszcze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;walki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wychodzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i mimo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego słownictwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozszerzył&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;znalazłem się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zbyt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiele tych samych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;słów, gdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiem, że inne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jestem tu od&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czterech lat i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czterolatków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lepiej niż ja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc myślę,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jestem jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trzylatka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;:-)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;No&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;.........&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nawet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówią&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lepiej.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mój&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drukarce zabrakło&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;atramentu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc musiałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;iść kupić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nową kasetę drukującą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Media&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a koszt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;atramentu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest wysoki.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mój&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;(tylko w czerni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;) koszty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wkładu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;309&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zł i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;otrzymaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;..........&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;koszt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowej drukarki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak mam&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;249zl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tak w zasadzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to prawie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lepiej kupić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nową drukarkę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niż tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kasety.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziwne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest to, że&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dyskusja na temat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;społeczeństwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jednorazowego użytku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4142652026947398389?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4142652026947398389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4142652026947398389&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4142652026947398389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4142652026947398389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/progress-pie-and-ink.html' title='Progress, pie and ink.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4036777802796910166</id><published>2011-11-24T08:19:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T10:42:04.418-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanksgiving day in Poland.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1eNDTskIQ4Y/Ts5zrpHHWOI/AAAAAAAAcsQ/fP91oQT4ImY/s1600/IMG_9152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1eNDTskIQ4Y/Ts5zrpHHWOI/AAAAAAAAcsQ/fP91oQT4ImY/s320/IMG_9152.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DueIBfveD_o/Ts5zt2xxhqI/AAAAAAAAcsY/12zN6_BmvIA/s1600/IMG_9153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DueIBfveD_o/Ts5zt2xxhqI/AAAAAAAAcsY/12zN6_BmvIA/s320/IMG_9153.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vg6HsfAWWws/Ts5zvu9a18I/AAAAAAAAcsg/DXwdztAY-GA/s1600/IMG_9156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vg6HsfAWWws/Ts5zvu9a18I/AAAAAAAAcsg/DXwdztAY-GA/s320/IMG_9156.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rUsJy9rWvj0/Ts5zyBShckI/AAAAAAAAcso/if93sUMN4UU/s1600/IMG_9157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rUsJy9rWvj0/Ts5zyBShckI/AAAAAAAAcso/if93sUMN4UU/s320/IMG_9157.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So, here it is ...Thanksgiving day and we did our weekly shopping for food then returned home to unclog the shower drain that has been building up for the last week or so.&amp;nbsp; Sent out e-cards to everyone for the day and got a few replies telling me what they were eating today and who was visiting with them.&amp;nbsp; All the food is well known to me from my years living in the U.S. so there were no surprises.&amp;nbsp; Tonight we'll have pork rolada's, salad, potatoes and Joan is in the kitchen now making an apple pie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched the film I told you I put on the blog about the 303rd fighter squadron in England and learned a little more about Polish victories against the Germans. The saddest part was at the end when Poland was betrayed by England and the U.S.&amp;nbsp; This is hard to understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tak&lt;/span&gt;, tutaj jest &lt;span class="hps"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Święto Dziękczynienia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;staraliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;cotygodniowe zakupy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żywności&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;następnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wrócił do domu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odetkać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpływ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prysznic&lt;/span&gt;, który został &lt;span class="hps"&gt;budowę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla ostatniego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tygodnia.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wysłany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;e-kartki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla wszystkich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na dzień&lt;/span&gt;, ale &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiedzi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mówią mi, co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jedli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziś i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;który odwiedził&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z nimi.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wszystkie potrawy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;są&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobrze znane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mi z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lat mieszkał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w USA&lt;/span&gt;, więc nie &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było żadnych niespodzianek&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będziemy mieli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wieprzowiny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rolada&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;, sałatka, ziemniaki i &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest w kuchni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;teraz co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szarlotka&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oglądałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;film&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Powiedziałam ci, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;umieszczone na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;blogu o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;303-ci&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dywizjon myśliwski&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Anglii i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dowiedziałem się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nieco więcej o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polskich zwycięstw&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przeciwko Niemcom.&lt;/span&gt;Najsmutniejsze &lt;span class="hps"&gt;było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na końcu, kiedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska została zdradzona&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przez Anglię&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i USA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trudne do zrozumienia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4036777802796910166?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4036777802796910166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4036777802796910166&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4036777802796910166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4036777802796910166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-day-in-poland.html' title='Thanksgiving day in Poland.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1eNDTskIQ4Y/Ts5zrpHHWOI/AAAAAAAAcsQ/fP91oQT4ImY/s72-c/IMG_9152.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-5996122061344807240</id><published>2011-11-23T14:07:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T14:24:21.972-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanksgiving.</title><content type='html'>A very interesting story on the right side of the blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow is turkey day in America, one of Joan's favorite holidays because it has no connection to memorials, tragedies or religion.&amp;nbsp; Just a time to be thankful for what you have and enjoy time with your family..&amp;nbsp; We don't celebrate it here in Poland, of course, because it's not a Polish holiday. I do miss having a good turkey dinner with dressing, cranberries and pumpkin pie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bardzo interesujący powieść na prawo stronie blogu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jutro&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;indyka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Ameryce&lt;/span&gt;, jeden z &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ulubionych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;świąt&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dlatego, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie ma związku z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pomników,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tragedii&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czy religii.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tylko&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;raz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;być wdzięczni za&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to, co masz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i ciesz się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;razem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z rodziną&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;..&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nie obchodzimy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;go tutaj&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt;, oczywiście, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bo to nie jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wakacje.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tęsknię&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobry&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obiad indyka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z sosem&lt;/span&gt;, borówki &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ciasto z dyni&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-5996122061344807240?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/5996122061344807240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=5996122061344807240&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5996122061344807240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5996122061344807240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving.html' title='Thanksgiving.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-5416644399291890610</id><published>2011-11-22T10:09:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T21:17:24.320-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday feels like Monday.</title><content type='html'>Trying to get a good grasp of the differences between imperfective and perfective verbs in Polish is not an easy concept to absorb. I've been asking all of my Skype correspondents about it&amp;nbsp;but most have no clue or very little.&amp;nbsp; Guess it's just a matter of using one or the other, making mistakes and then learning from them. Why can't I just plug a Polish language chip into my neck like in the movie Matrix.&amp;nbsp; It would be so much easier and quicker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned today that starting next year there will be a tax credit for people using the internet in their homes in order to boost the amount of usage.&amp;nbsp; Good idea!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also learned that some friends of ours from the "old days" in the U.P will drive down to Chicago so they can visit with us during&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;second half of our trip.&amp;nbsp; That's nice. They would definitely fit into the classification of przyjaciele in Polish. They sent a picture of themselves taken in the same place they took a picture of Joan and I some 25 years earlier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3zvGdrcIqYM/TsvIwykZMQI/AAAAAAAAcr8/-ulwRhTFdoA/s1600/Doug+%2526+Muffie+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3zvGdrcIqYM/TsvIwykZMQI/AAAAAAAAcr8/-ulwRhTFdoA/s320/Doug+%2526+Muffie+005.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mary and Mike.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_6xA5MMtaQk/TsvIyOZPpTI/AAAAAAAAcsE/39A0oRTU2AE/s1600/IMG_9151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_6xA5MMtaQk/TsvIyOZPpTI/AAAAAAAAcsE/39A0oRTU2AE/s320/IMG_9151.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Dave and Joan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Próbuje uzyskać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dobre zrozumienie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;różnic pomiędzy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;niedokonany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;czasowników&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w języku polskim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie jest łatwe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do przyjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;koncepcja&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Byłem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prosząc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wszystkich moich&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;korespondentów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Skype&lt;/span&gt;, ale większość &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie mają pojęcia,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;albo bardzo niewiele&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Domyślam się, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to tylko kwestia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zastosowania jednej lub&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drugiej&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="hps"&gt;popełniania błędów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;uczenia się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od nich.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dlaczego nie mogę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;po prostu podłącz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;układ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;języka na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojej szyi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jak w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Matrix&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;filmu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Byłoby&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o wiele łatwiej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i szybciej.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dowiedziałem się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od przyszłego roku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ulga podatkowa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla osób&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;korzystających z internetu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w swoich domach&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w celu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zwiększenia ilości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zużycia&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dobry pomysł!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Dowiedziałem się też&lt;/span&gt;, że niektórzy &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nasi przyjaciele&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;"dawnych czasach"&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;UP&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pozwoli obniżyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt;, aby mogli &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odwiedzić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z nami&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w drugiej połowie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszej podróży.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To miłe.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Oni&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na pewno&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pasuje do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;klasyfikacji&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;przyjaciele &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w języku polskim.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wysłali&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich obraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;podjętych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w tym samym miejscu&lt;/span&gt;, wzięli &lt;span class="hps"&gt;obraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i ja&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jakieś 25 lat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wcześniej.&lt;/span&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-5416644399291890610?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/5416644399291890610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=5416644399291890610&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5416644399291890610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/5416644399291890610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesday-feels-like-monday.html' title='Tuesday feels like Monday.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3zvGdrcIqYM/TsvIwykZMQI/AAAAAAAAcr8/-ulwRhTFdoA/s72-c/Doug+%2526+Muffie+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-2357581737654732040</id><published>2011-11-21T12:39:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T12:40:51.378-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Almost done.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So, today we decided &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;on the presents for the grandkids and know they will be happy with them. Only four more to get and then we are done.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Heard the sad news today that the Chicago Bears quarterback sustained a fractured thumb in the last game and is probably out for the rest of the season. His backup will fill in for him but unlikely he will perform as good.&amp;nbsp; Oh well...........................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="result_box" lang="pl"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tak,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdecydowaliśmy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prezenty dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wnuków&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wie, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z nich zadowolona.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Tylko cztery&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;więcej, aby uzyskać&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;skończymy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Heard&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;smutna wiadomość&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dzisiaj, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Chicago Bears&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozgrywający&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;trwałego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;złamania&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kciuka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w ostatnim meczu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;prawdopodobnie nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do końca&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sezonu.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Jego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kopia zapasowa będzie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wypełnić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla niego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, lecz prawdopodobnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie wykonywał&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak dobrze.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;No cóż&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;...........................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="spell-place-holder" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools"&gt;&lt;div id="gt-src-tools-l"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="gt-res-tools-r"&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Listen" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-listen-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Listen" id="gt-res-listen" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Read phonetically" aria-pressed="false" class="trans-roman-button goog-toolbar-button" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Read phonetically" id="gt-res-roman" role="button" style="display: none;" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div aria-label="Rate translation" data-tooltip-align="t,c" data-tooltip="Rate translation" id="gt-res-rate"&gt;&lt;div aria-haspopup="true" class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button" role="button" tabindex="0" title="" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-outer-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-inner-box" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;div class="goog-inline-block goog-toolbar-menu-button-caption" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;span class="goog-flat-menu-button-img gt-rate-icon jfk-button-img" unselectable="on"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-2357581737654732040?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/2357581737654732040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=2357581737654732040&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2357581737654732040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/2357581737654732040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/almost-done.html' title='Almost done.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-4972292712499826291</id><published>2011-11-20T10:21:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T10:23:00.711-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Presents?</title><content type='html'>Sunday morning and off we went to Browar for a few things Joan needed to make Date Bars for dessert tonight.&amp;nbsp; It was also an opportunity to look though the stores for ideas of what to take as presents for our grandchildren.&amp;nbsp; The problem of course is what do you buy for a&amp;nbsp;twelve year old girl and a fourteen year old boy. We thought about clothes but then decided it's a problem if they don't fit. Do they fly 5000 miles to Poland to exchange them? I don't think so.&amp;nbsp; They will be packed in our suitcases so it can't be any breakable.&amp;nbsp; So...........I wrote an email to their mother and will wait for answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we got back home it was such a nice day outside we decided to go for a walk and have a closer look at the building that is now almost blocking our view of the new church.&amp;nbsp; It's another apartment complex started earlier this year and now getting close to completion.&amp;nbsp; It's kind of sad in a way because the outside of the new, big church has been finished for some years but there hasn't been enough money to complete the inside so it stands empty and everyone has to go to a small little square block building used as the church. Except for the few statues, pictures and altar inside it has the atmosphere of a cold garage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;W niedzielę rano&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i poszliśmy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Browaru&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilka rzeczy,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Joan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;potrzebne do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Bary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Data&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dziś&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;deser.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Była to również&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;okazja do spojrzenia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;choć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sklepach&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;idei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, co do podjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na prezenty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dla naszych wnuków&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Problemem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest oczywiście&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to, co&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kupujesz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na okres dwunastu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lat dziewczyna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w czternastu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;letniego chłopca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myśleliśmy o&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ubrania, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;potem zdecydowałem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że jest to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;problem, jeśli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie pasują&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Czy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;lecą&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;5000 mil&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do wymiany&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Myślę, że nie.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zostaną one&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zapakowane w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;walizki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, więc nie może&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;być&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;żadnych&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;łamliwe.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Więc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;...........&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;napisałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;maila do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;swojej matki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;będzie czekał na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;odpowiedź.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Po&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;powrocie do domu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to był taki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miły dzień&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;poza&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdecydowaliśmy się&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pójść na spacer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przyjrzeć się bliżej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;budynku, który&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest już prawie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;blokowanie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;naszym zdaniem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowego kościoła&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To kolejny&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kompleks apartamentów&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rozpoczął&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na początku tego roku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, a teraz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zbliżamy się do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zakończenia.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;To trochę&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;smutne,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w sposób,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponieważ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na zewnątrz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nowe,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;duży&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kościół&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;był&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;gotowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;od kilku lat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie było&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wystarczająco dużo pieniędzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby zakończyć&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wewnątrz tak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;stoi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pusty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;i każdy musi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;iść&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;do małego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;placyku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;budowy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;bloku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;używana jako&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kościół&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Z wyjątkiem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;rzeźb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, obrazów i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ołtarz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w środku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ma atmosfery&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zimnej&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;garażu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-4972292712499826291?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/4972292712499826291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=4972292712499826291&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4972292712499826291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/4972292712499826291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/presents.html' title='Presents?'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-8878409370580509360</id><published>2011-11-19T09:23:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T09:23:12.256-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The grays..............</title><content type='html'>The news of increasing the retirement age in Poland has a lot of people talking about it, not many are happy with it, especially the younger ones. Of course, it doesn't matter to us, we already made that time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was another of those gray days and now we're just hanging around the house waiting for M Jak Miłość to start. Funny how you get involved with such a trivial thing as a soap opera and continue to follow it.&amp;nbsp; I started out watching it because it had English subtitles and I thought that would help with learning but now I watch it just to see what happens next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also heard the news today that Poznań will have a new cemetery soon..............a&amp;nbsp;pet cemetery.&amp;nbsp; Yes, that's right folks, not only some Americans are crazy about their pets. A pet cemetery in Poznań, holy cow!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-8878409370580509360?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/8878409370580509360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=8878409370580509360&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8878409370580509360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/8878409370580509360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/grays.html' title='The grays..............'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-7029783817755029860</id><published>2011-11-18T23:45:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T00:01:14.180-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Like father, like son.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XgF6lotcML8/TsdBWKx6vMI/AAAAAAAAcrM/RtMuWhgJTxI/s1600/1214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XgF6lotcML8/TsdBWKx6vMI/AAAAAAAAcrM/RtMuWhgJTxI/s320/1214.jpg" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RsacAHxS2UY/TsdBg8SVg6I/AAAAAAAAcrU/7ecDqv7oPF0/s1600/ESP+11-18-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RsacAHxS2UY/TsdBg8SVg6I/AAAAAAAAcrU/7ecDqv7oPF0/s320/ESP+11-18-11.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A picture of long hairs.&amp;nbsp; My son Eric's hair is considerably longer now. The picture is from yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obraz &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;długich włosów&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Włosy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mojego syna&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Erica&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest znacznie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dłuższa&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Obraz jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z wczoraj.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dWAlqMPADqQ/TsdF_LspKjI/AAAAAAAAcrc/wj96fJ6qrVo/s1600/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="254" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dWAlqMPADqQ/TsdF_LspKjI/AAAAAAAAcrc/wj96fJ6qrVo/s320/Capture.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KhhU-1hHWts/TsdGDpUPwlI/AAAAAAAAcrk/qCJv86Qy1Eg/s1600/Capture2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KhhU-1hHWts/TsdGDpUPwlI/AAAAAAAAcrk/qCJv86Qy1Eg/s320/Capture2.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In less than two weeks the A2 motorway to the border with Germany will be officially opened. The concrete surface on the entire, more than 100 kilometer long part of the motorway is ready &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-7029783817755029860?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/7029783817755029860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33728243&amp;postID=7029783817755029860&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7029783817755029860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33728243/posts/default/7029783817755029860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/2011/11/like-father-like-son.html' title='Like father, like son.'/><author><name>David and Joan Piekarczyk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08765346132870127606</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSrHxpSFlcE/Tmq7zIkLYOI/AAAAAAAAaqA/GGz_8G7kLaI/s220/12.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XgF6lotcML8/TsdBWKx6vMI/AAAAAAAAcrM/RtMuWhgJTxI/s72-c/1214.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33728243.post-473276179599576113</id><published>2011-11-17T01:07:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T01:09:09.632-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tires</title><content type='html'>It's that time of the year again when it's necessary to change the summer tires to the winter tires.&amp;nbsp; Still seems strange to have two sets of tires but that's the way it is in Poland so, when in Rome..............&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Installed the new FTM 2012 and don't see a big difference between the 2010 and 2012 version. Finally know how to import a family tree and retain the pictures I had in the old file.&amp;nbsp; In the past, everytime I imported a file the pictures wouldn't come over but instructions from FTM have helped me to know how to do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last couple of days have been gray and dreary but that's normal for this time of year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, że&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pory roku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponownie, gdy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest to konieczne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, aby zmienić&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;opony letnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;na&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;opony zimowe.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nadal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wydaje się dziwne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;mieć dwa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;komplety opon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak właśnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;jest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Polska&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tak, to kiedy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w Rzymie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;..............&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Instalacji nowego&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;FTM&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;2012 i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;widzę dużej różnicy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;między&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;2010 i 2012&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wersji.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;Wreszcie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, jak zaimportować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;drzewo genealogiczne i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zachować&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęcia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;miałem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;w starym pliku&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;W przeszłości&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;za każdym razem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przywoził&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pliku&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;zdjęcia nie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;przychodził&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;instrukcje&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;z&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;FTM&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;pomogły mi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;wiedzieć, jak&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to zrobić.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Ostatnie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;kilka&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;dni były&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;szare i&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;ponure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, ale&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;to normalne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;o tej porze&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;roku.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33728243-473276179599576113?l=david-polanddavid.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://david-polanddavid.blogspot.com/feeds/473276179599576113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=337
