ya! email time! wooo! I forgot my
list of stuff I was going to include in this email... so there will
be no email today!!!!
... żart!
Don't worry, there will be an email,
I may just have to fill in the gaps next week.
First of all, I have a gap to fill in
from last week, I forgot to tell you guys about the terrifying tram
ride Siostra Whiteley and I had last Tuesday. First off, there are
two types of trams here, there are the speedy, fancy ones that have
air conditioning and TV screens, from which we find out tommorrow's
weather. And then there are the tin cans on wheels... litterally,
they have no air conditioning, instead they have windows that you
can occasionally force open. We had just climbed into the death
tram that was going to take us 2 stops away to the senior couple
apartment. We went one stop, a few people got on with us, and then
the doors shut and the tram started inching away from the platform,
at literal inchworm speed. Suddenly the cabin started getting
really smokey, and no one could properly breath. A couple of us
tried to force open the windows, but they were stuck. The tram was
breaking down, but it was still moving, very slowly toward the next
platform. I couldn't help but think, as I was choking on the smoke,
"I should have known I'd die in one of these trams". When
we eventually reached the station and the doors finally opened
Siostra Whiteley and I practically exploded out of it. It was a
crazy situation, I'm sure it wasn't as bad as it seemed at the
time, because I think that tram is still in operation, but it was
pretty freaky nonetheless.
And now onto this week, it was pretty
chill, the most exciting thing that happened was that the Stumpfs
were here! They arrived on Wednesday, we first saw evidence of them
at our English class. Siostra Whiteley and I were preparing to
start when three people walked past the door. We only caught a
glimpse of them, but we knew right away that it was zee Germans! I
turned to Siostra Whiteley and mouthed "they're here!"
Poltergeist style. We didn't get to actually talk to them until
after English though. Stumpf's parents are super cool, they took us
out to get Indian food and we got to chat with them for a while.
His mom has almost no German accent, but his dad has a pretty thick
accent, his name is Johannes (we think, still not sure) and he is
an enigma!
Speaking of hipster stuff. at one
point, during out dinner with the Stumpfs, mama Stumpf (or Lady
Cathrine, as we've been calling her for the past month... not sure
why, her name is Marianne...) Asked if our parents are part of the
facebook group, Poland moms and dads (or something like that, not
sure if you guys are). She said you need to get an invite for it or
something and my response was "well, my dad is so hipster he
was probably already a member before I even opened my call"
lol, Siostra Whiteley, I laughed, I'm not sure if the others got it
though. We're not sure Stumpf quite understands our hipster jokes,
it might be a German thing...
We also had our Sport Saturday, which
Stumpf joined us for. Other than us missionaries, the only people
who showed up were Stumpf, Ola, and Cindy, so that was kind of
lame. But it was still pretty fun. Most of the group played
Basketball, and the rest of us (Whiteley, Owens, and I) played
Badminton. Eventually Stumpf and Ola joined us. The whole time we
were playing Badminton I kept pretending that the rackets were
light sabers, because they had blue and red ones. At one point it
was Me and Owens with blue rackets, against Whiteley and Stumpf,
with red rackets. I referred to them as Sith Lords and said
dramatically "I should have known all along that my Jedi
Master was really a Sith Lord!" Siostra Whiteley just laughed
and rolled her eyes, and Stumpf and I spun our rackets and made
light saber noises :)
Oh yeah, we taught more accents to
our English class, we taught them stuff like 'aks' and 'ya'll' and
'imma be' we taught them to leave off the 'is' and 'are' when they
want to sound street, example sentences - "you crazy!"
"where you at?" i tak dalej (etc.) We also taught them
how to speak with a Brooklyn accent, and various southern accents,
and valley girl, and a little bit about the Minnesota accent, but I
couldn't really do it justice. Our class is tons of fun. Also, on a
more serious note, we taught them how to make the 'th' sound. I
never realised until I had to teach it, that it is a weird sound,
it's really hard for people to make that sound when they are
learning English, it's totally normal to me, so I never even
thought about it, but it's a weird noise!
Anyway, this week we aren't teaching
English because we have legal work to finish in Warsaw. Siostra
Whiteley, Elder Owens and I are traveling to Warsaw tomorrow
morning and will be returning Wednesday night. It's another 2 Owens
days, woo! The week after, however, we are having our exchange. I
will be staying in Wrocław, and Siostra Whiteley is going to go be
with Siostra Petherbridge in Kraków for a day. Siostra Bąk, will
be coming here with me. She is in her first transfer, so I will be
senior companion... I'm only freaking out a little bit :) She's
from Minnesota though, and we will be teaching English together, so
I am excited to show them what a real Minnesota accent sounds like.
I had another cool language moment at
church yesterday. I had a conversation with Siostra Kuchno, like,
an actual one, not one where I just understood what she was saying
and responded by smiling, nodding, and saying "tak". I
understood what she was saying, understood the couple of times when
she asked me questions, and responded with multiple word answers!
Woo!!! So yeah, that was cool.
That was basically it for the week I
think. Not a whole lot happened this week other than our friends
from "zee fazzahland" stopping by for a visit.
Kocham Cię, & Keelah Selai
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