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This first week of March has been a bit trying.  Both Sarah and I have been sick with colds/flu for the past week – and still the illness lingers.  We both had flu shots months ago, too.  We are doing … Continue reading →

From the fourth floor of our apartment building, I can look out the window and see the shopping area (for lack of a better English word) below.  In Polish, it is a bazarka, a collection of small – one might … Continue reading →

It’s COLD here!  The past few days have been in the teens (Fahrenheit, for all  you folks back home) and tomorrow night’s low is supposed to be below zero.  The snow, which is blanketing everything now, is nice to view … Continue reading →

I thought it might be interesting to post about my week.  Last week was busier than most, so writing about it will give me a chance to show both the typical and the atypical parts of life in Warsaw. A … Continue reading →

“Alas! that journals so voluminously begun should come to so lame and impotent a conclusion as most of them did! I doubt if there is a single pilgrim of all that host but can show a hundred fair pages of … Continue reading →

It’s hard to believe I’ve been in Poland over a week and haven’t had a chance to post ANYTHING to this blog.  Life has been incredibly busy. The day Sarah and I arrived we arranged to meet a realtor, the … Continue reading →

With just two days until I leave for my sabbatical in Warsaw, I am filled with excitement but also anxious to finish all of my preparations for leaving home.  I have been generously given a Fulbright Core Award to teach … Continue reading →