Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

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 next day met the realtor and saw three apartments, the third day signed a lease, and the fourth day moved in.  We’re living in Stary Mokotow (Old Mokotow), a very nice area of Warsaw, in a 2 bedroom apartment.  Within walking distance is a great vegetarian restaurant as well as many shops; the metro entrance is just a stone’s throw from our building.

A few days ago, we left Warsaw for Torun where we are doing a 10 day orientation with other Poland Fulbrighters.  There are a whopping 57 of us, the vast majority grad students either teaching English here or conducting their own research.  There are 7 or so core Fulbrighters and, interestingly, many of them are on their second Fulbright (like me).  We are studying Polish and getting lectures from scholars at the Nikolas Copernicus University here on Polish literature and history.  Yesterday afternoon was a 3 hour (!) walking tour of the old city district which dates from medieval times, including ruins of a Teutonic Knights castle.  Very cool.  Will post some pictures once I have time and can figure out how to.

Gotta go eat (doing a lot of that) and then off to a morning of Polish language classes.  Do widzenia! (Goodbye!)