We are back in the City of Lakes. Our luggage is still in Chicago. It's leaving shortly, but we will be sleeping when it arrives, since it's the middle of the night "our time."
Warsaw: it rained or snowed nearly every day. The streets were sloppy with sand and mud and every bit of trash dropped since it started to snow last fall. Blocks are large, with large modernist apartment blocks plopped in the middle of them. There is a fair amount of graffiti. The proportion of historic/cultural/artistic tourism spots is quite small for a European capital. Everyone there speaks Polish, dammit.
I met or talked with a lot of good potential contacts, and learned a lot. What will come out of it remains to be seen: I didn't get the scholarship that would have enabled me to continue with Polish.
Well, I'll have to sort this out later. When I am not exhausticated. Till tomorrow...
Posted by otto0114 at March 19, 2005 08:59 PMWelcome back! Sorry to hear you didn't get the scholarship.
Posted by: Winter in the Cities at March 20, 2005 11:02 PM