How we felt ... The plane showed up ... And off we went ...thru passport control
Where after supper Anna, our coordinator, explained the itinerary for the next few days.
But WE MADE IT
2 hour bus ride to Lublin, to a nice hotel
(And we had a brief class in speaking Polish.)
The first thing we did after arriving in Lublin was get a taste for the excellent Polish food. The hotel's restaurant served us chicken with some fruit sauce. I'm sure there is a Polish name for this dish, but there is no way that I would be able to spell or pronounce it :). We then attended Mass at the cathedral on KUL's campus. Fortunately, we stood throughout the Mass, which helped prevent jet lag from kicking in. We finished up the night with a quick lesson in the Polish language. It did not come too easily to me, but luckily some of my classmates picked up the slack.
ReplyDeleteThe Polish language lesson was a lot of fun -- the pronunciations were difficult for me to navigate, but I thought it was perfectly timed because it also functioned as a group bonding opportunity. At that point, we had just landed in Poland and still didn't know each other very well, but I think that language class was the start of our intergroup friendships. I was equally amused by all of our mistakes and impressed by our linguistic talent, and the phrases we learned were quite practical too.
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