Got the house! Moving in on 6th October

Finally got the Kredyt and everything done. That was a nightmare.  But it's done now and the Notariusz has done his initial stuff

I'm very pleased with the kurs intensywny.  Ja myślę że uczyłem się dużo w zeszłym miesiące.  And we're learning the Polonaise.  I just discovered how diverse the crowd of students are at the course -- we have lots of Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Belarussians, Romanians, etc. Europeans, plus lots of Japanese, a chinese girl, an Indian (me!), Bolivians, Ecuadorians, Americans, Australians, Canadians, Brits, even an Ethiopian.

The Polonaise is fun, very decorous.  I tried to learn the mazurka, but no, it's not for me!

Decided on a house, now to get the loan

We decided to get the Zgrupowania Żmija house and have bargained for the price and it's just in our affordable range.  The beauty is that we don't have to do any reconstructions -- the house already has all the fittings in the kitchen and bathroom.  All we need to do is paint, get furniture and get rid of the bidet in the bathroom (why do people have these things??).

Getting the kredyt from OpenFinance is crazy bureaucracy.  Luckily we have some cash in Bombay that I've transferred.  We'll need it to pay the deposit and the initial amoount, but the paperwork is still maddening.

Oh, and I took Niuniuś, our little chomik (hamster) out for a walk ;-P actually, just to drop him off at Ursynów as we are going to be in Toruń for the weekend of the 31st

The classes are going great.  We are learning quite a lot.  The movie selection seems strange -- very arty and I hate art films, especially the depressing ones that they are showing us which seem to give the impression that Poland is a horrible place and Warsaw is a den of violence, which is it not.

Searching for houses!

We are still looking for houses.  I've seen a dozen and I am fed up.  Only three look promising: the one at Zgrupowania Żmija which may be too far from town, then one at Generała Zajęczka (bathroom is too small) and one on ul. Tolwinskiego (not nice but cheap and close to ul Poli Gojawiczynskiego)

First day of Kurs intensywny na Uniwersytecie

The first day of the course.  We all packed into the Bibliteka Uniwerystecie on ul. Długa and the leading Prof called out the results.

I was pretty surprised that I wasn't in the beginners groups or indeed in the first 10 (they started with those who knew the least Polish).  I was in class 11 lead by Pani Dorota.

Quite surprised I was (to paraphrase Yoda!).  W mojej klasie jest Boliwijanczyk, dwa Rosjanki, jedna Hiszpańska, jedna Niemczyka, jedna Francuszka, jeden Włoczek i ja.

One of the Russian girls is the one that was copying during the test.  She seemed very lost during the lecture and kept asking everyone in Russian something!