1 week away

Just when things are getting nice in Inowroclaw, Casey and I are about to depart for another adventure. That’s right, we are finishing up teaching this week, saying good-bye to friends and students and packing up our home that we lived in for 7 months. (I still have this habit of collecting things, so we will have to give a lot of things away to friends or donate them to the salvation army).

We are not actually leaving Poland right away, but we are taking a trip to the famous Polish mountains, the Tatras, for a week to do some hiking. And then we are hopping on the train to Romania, and will be helping out with a Christian organization in a remote village in the mountains by teaching English and helping out with some building projects. So we will be back in Canada on July 7, to enjoy a Manitoba summer.

As I type this I have mixed feelings, we have really been blessed in Poland with meeting alot of new friends, having good jobs and living in a different culture. Sure, the language barrier has given us a little grief, but it has given us the understanding of what many people deal with when moving to a different country. My perspective has changed a lot since the first day we set foot in Poland. The generosity of people has overwhelmed me, we have felt welcome here the entire time by people inviting us to their houses and taking us places. So, Casey and I have decided that we would like to find some Polish people in Winnipeg to keep us in touch with Poland.

These past few weeks we have been trying to see everything that we can around our area now that the weather has been nice. Friends of ours, they took us to Biskupin, a prehistoric settlement from about the 8th century.

We also had the opportunity to go to Malbork this past weekend with some other friends. It is biggest Gothic castle in all of the World built in the 1300s, it also had a tower so we climbed it.

Well, okay I better go and start packing up or at least thinking about it.
Chris.