Sunday, December 16, 2007

Good and sad news.

I put four of my favorite YouTube Christmas videos on thesite to add a little music if you want while you read. Just click on the arrow. The one by John Denver is part of a series he did with the Muppets and I like the message. The other is still the best "pop" singing voice, Frank Sinatra. The third and fourth videos are classic Polish Christmas carol.

I was given a website to look at for car rentals. It was given to me by Zenon, a man who does family research as a business. It's not a chain car rental and it turns out to be the cheapest. We can rent a car for four days for 330 zl ($132) so if we don't get the Pesel soon that's what we'll do. We're not going to miss visiting relatives at this special time.

Good news on the dollar value. It's going up again and the "experts" say it will continue. A reader of the blog, Carol, told me she heard this news on CNBC and I've read the same in other publications.

A sad note today, the mother of our friend Agnieszka Fahland passed away today. Agnieszka and her husband John came to Poland to be with her during her illness. It was good she had this time with her mother.

We did our usual thing today, study, study, study. You would think that with all the studying we do we should be speaking Polish with no problem but, unfortunately, that's not the case. I am continuously amazed at the cousins here who speak two and three languages. I wish there was a "chip" I could just implant in my brain, like in the movie "The Matrix", and I could speak in Polish :-) But no, it's a long process learning and we have a ways to go.

I saw a few more decorated Christmas trees today. In front of our flat complex we have a tree now. I thought about buying a lot of decorations but then wondered if they have after Christmas sales like they do in the States where all Christmas items are sold at 50% off. I'll have to find out about that.


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Zobaczy艂em kilka wi臋cej dekorowanych choinek dzisiaj. Przed naszym p艂askim kompleksem mamy drzewo teraz. Pomy艣la艂em dooko艂a kupowanie du偶o ozd贸b ale w贸wczas zdumia艂y si臋 je偶eli oni maj膮 po sprzeda偶y Bo偶ym Narodzeniu jak oni robi膮 w Stanach gdzie wszystkie Bo偶e Narodzenie pozycje s膮 sprzedane o 50% precz. B臋d臋 musia艂 wynajdowa膰 dooko艂a tamto.