10 October 2010

New course at University of Warsaw and I got a job

I completed course A2 and have now joined B1 in the regular course at the university.  This is a different sort of class with different students -- working students and the classes are twice a week for 2.5 hours each day.

The average age of the class has jumped from 19 to 29 and we have a more serious atmosphere.  Bruno (the Bolivian engineering Masters student) is with me again.  It's good, he's a nice guy and I've invited his girlfriend (a teacher at Polonicum) and him over for obiad.

Besides him we have a Russian lady, a Ukrainian girl, an Australian lady of Irani origin, a Vietnamese lady, a Vietnamese girl, a Romanian lady my age, a German girl (studying to become a Lutheran pastor -- now that's funny, I asked her why would a person come to study Lutheranism in this most Catholic of all countries and she said that the Lutherans here are far more religious than those in Germany.

Oh, and I got a job -- went for the interview a week ago and they asked me in this week again for a follow-up interview and I got an offer.  I'm going to take it and join on the 8th of November (we're going on a mini-vacation to Piwniczna from the 30th Oct to the 7th of Nov)

06 October 2010

Moving house to Zgrupowania Żmija -- moving the stuff

I must be crazy.  Wait, I am crazy.  I decided that since I've still not started my job, I can move our things from Kredytowa to Zgrupowania Żmija by public transport.  After all we have a direct tramway (35) from Świętokrzyska to Piaski and a nearly direct bus (180).

That was tiring -- we have a lot of things, makes me scared -- will we end up like our parents with a whole bunch of things?  Reminds me of the Jerome J Jerome bit in Three Men on a Boat where he talks about people loading their boats in the journey of life with way too much luggage and urging us to throw it all out and live free.

The furniture got delivered already and we had a send off for the sister in law who's off to Japan for a year.  Now the wife has plans to invite a new bunch of people each weekend to show off the house, ah, women.... :)