As I told before, only a minority of people here speak english. Sometimes it's making life complicated when running errands. I can manage myself in most situations interacting with people in polish. But if after six months I can manage myself in the post office with no complications I will see that I have succeeded on my journey here. I have my package ready to send to Finland and the office just around the corner but first I have to prepare myself mentally. Still, speaking polish is really important to me and I'm improving everyday. After a while and a lot of repeating and double-checking I actually understood what the post office lady meant. It's just the situation that makes me nervous. I'm still trying to avoid them, but in the end it's impossible. The other day I was buying some credit for my phone and with that pani we both spoke english-polish-mix-sign-language and eventually we worked it out. And she was very miłe.
I rarely eat out but there's one place I have to stop by everytime I'm around. It's like a buffet, where the plate is weighed and you pay for what you eat. And the food is mostly very traditional style polish food. I never know what the foods actually include for the signs are only in polish (and for some reason I haven't still studied the food words in polish, even I think I probably should because this problem just keeps coming up over and over again) but everything I've tried so far has been amazing. And of course they serve my fauvorite -pierogi (>wiki<). There's all sorts of different kinds of pierogi, even sweet ones. We also cook them at home from time to time, they're easy and delicious.
A couple of things I love about polish food is their passion about meat and bread. Here it can be detected as several bakeries and butcher shops that all sell their unique products. Very different from Finland -you can't even find any meatballs or other "meat" -products here, even from the big shop. A lot of sausages oczywiście, and 95% of the meat you find fresh behind the meat counter. And if you happen to find some good freshly baked bread... it's heaven. You can just taste the love.
Yesterday at Euroweek they were dancing some traditional estonian dance that was called Oige ja vasempa. I love having an estonian around, for the language always makes me giggle (every finnish person will understand).

/edit Oh, and I have to add this; polish word that amuses me the most at the moment:
pingwin
I don't think it needs a translation. I'm not sure why, but this amuses me in many polish words that they are just written in the way that the english version of the word is pronounced in polish.
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