Just wanted to give you an update on what's happening here in Poland. We celebrated Thanksgiving with our Polish friends yesterday on Sunday. We couldn't find pumpkin pie or cranberry sauce but I think the meal came out great anyway. We had turkey breasts/legs, mashed potatoes, homemade stuffing [since they don't have it in the stores], carrots, broccoli, cucumber salad and a dessert called "apple crunch" which I found online. This was the first time I have cooked for 15 people! Thank goodness for Bob's and Sebastian's help with peeling the cucumbers, apples, potatoes,etc....As some of you know, I have been terribly sick this past week [and had to start antibiotics near the end], so wasn't sure I'd feel better by this past weekend. But Saturday, I felt better and we decided to cook some of the meal ahead of time so we didn't have to rush after church the next day. Everybody seemed to like the "American-made" food!
See our link to the Picasa Web Album for other pictures and videos.
Last Friday we were able to go to visit Sebastian's family again. It was his youngest sister's 8th birthday. We gave her a Barbie with some ''accesories" like a walking dog. See video. She really liked it and never had a "real" Barbie before.
Sebastian has decided to go back to Florida and will be staying with a family friend in Panama City, FL. His cats are there with our friend, Diane so he is happy about seeing them again. He wants to get back to working and is going to try to find a job while he is there, do some fishing and also help Diane around the house with some projects. There just wasn't enough for him to do here in Poland. He found relearning the language was difficult and couldn't get a job unless he knew Polish. He did help the pastor's father-in-law do some outside projects at the Pastor's house and learned a lot doing that. Mietek and Krystyna, the pastor's wife's parents were very good to Sebastian. They knew a little English to get by and otherwise used a lot of ''sign" language. Some things Sebastian could guess what they were saying. It was funny to watch. Krystyna would cook the 2pm meal for her husband and Sebastian and it was always something good, starting with homemade soup every day! When the Pastor told the congregation that Sebastian was leaving, he thanked Krystyna and Mietek for "allowing" him to work with him for the last 6-8 weeks and teaching him everything. It about made me cry!
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