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                                                    I knew I came to the right country.

This morning I had an apple and 1.5 carrots for breakfast.  I also left 45 minutes early for a supposed 10minute walk for the purpose of being anble to take pictures, and I knew I would get lost.  I got a lot of pictures of street views and of façades of buildings i liked in particular.  (Ones that showed age, or particular craftsmanship, or were hilarious for whatever reason.)

So the Polish people use the alphabet that we do, but tthe pronunciation rules are different. They have an L with a tilted hyphen through the stem that make our "w" sound, and then W is a V.  There are a few moreis a green-bely differences, but those (to me) are intuitive, so i wouldn't be able to point them out very well.  Especially not any better than any other basic phrasebook.

I mention this character because I live on a street with this character in it.  The name of the street means "long" street. And if you follow this street, it's a straight shot through the biggest market in central Europe (i think) to campus.  Campus, which is four flights of stairs (god help me) and today when i came out, i got lost.

Now, "lost" for most people means going completely off course and simply havingnto navigate back to where they were and return to the course they were on. For me, "lost" means stepping out of almost any building, or room, or out of anywhere.  Or it means dtiving down a street. Or very nearly looking out at anything at all.  I know my town in washington because i've lived there for 12 years. I know a little of bellingham because i've liver there a little over a year-- but i still can't recognize a one-way street in the dark in either place.

Is bad news bears.

So when I tell you I got lost today, I want to explain that there is a green-belt/park that encircles all of "old town" and that if you get lost, you can follow the park around and there is a buliding with a globe (oxidized copper green?) And it has gold oval on it.  Go towards that landmark, and you can find D'w'uga street.

But it's a big damn place, so even tho i kept seeing ladmarks i knew, for an hour or more there i still couldn't find the IMPORTANT ONE.

The Important One.