Joan, at the "supermarket"
A call to the American Consulate this morning told us that we wouldn't be going there today. She was on 3 weeks vacation and is spending the day catching up. We have an appt. for Friday morning at 10AM.So with that meetings postponed until Friday we decided it was a good day to do food shopping at the various stores we use. First we walked to King Cross mall to the large supermarket 3/4 of our food. Things like cereals, soup preps, sugar, salt, some veggies we can't find at the local veggie store and a few meats. After we came home and put those things away we walked to the meat store two doors away and bout kielbasa's, schab(pork chops), great ham and some bacon. We wanted 4 pork chops so the girl had to use a large meat cleaver to cu them up. It's looks almost like an axe...and dangerous. I think she enjoys it when we come in because of our language difference yet we always seem to communicate our needs. We walked two doors down what Joan calls the "purple store" because it is painted purple on the outside and that's where we buy dthe vegetables. We came back home, cooked up some fine little "Sląska" sausages and had lunch. We studied for about two hours, took a nap and went for a walk. The weather has gotten cool now, between 60-65 degrees and not to sunny for the last 5 days. Autumn's approaching quickly. I'm looking forward to see what colors the trees change to.
David,
ReplyDeleteI love hearing about your continuing discoveries on what it's like to live in Poland -- and the accompanying photos!!!
It's a highlight of my day, to check your site and find a new posting!
Keep those jottings and photos coming!
Lucie
Lucie,
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's enjoyable for me to make the postings and writing thoughts on the day. It's gray, cloudy and a little chilly here today. I found out our buildings heating system is turned on or off at the central power station that is just north of us, Once the steam is turned on we can control the temperature of each radiator in the different rooms. Once the heat is turned on...Oct. 15th. Until then it's sweaters and warm clothes :-(
Learned something new the other day about all of the flat complexes that were built in the days of Communisim. It seems you could buy a flat but still not actually own it. What you bought was the "right" to own the flat and you could sell that "right" to another person but the state still actually owned it. That practice is still going on today for those old buildings, of which there are many. The newer buildings that have been built are not like that. When you buy a flat, it is your property, just like buying a condo in the states. We rent a flat in a newer building so our landlady is the owner.