Animals

458m from the shore the sea was full of jellyfish. They were moving very slowly, like suspended in the thick air. It was a very relaxing picture. Especially with the sun warming up my back.

- He's such a pet! - I commented when a small yorkshire terrier was looking at an old lady, asking her to take him to her arms.
- Yes, he doesn't want to let me go, like I was his mummy - answer the lady carrying the York. He seemed very happy to be able to see the views on the sea from up there.

The stairs in the forest. In the corner of my eye I noticed something white moving very quickly. 'A pigeon?' I thought. But well, I have not seen a white pigeon hidding in a burrow in the middle of a forest. The second thought was "a rat", but it seemed the same unbeliveable. I decided to wait a moment and see if it will go out again. I noticed some rotten apple - it must have been its lunch. After few seconds I saw some whiskers, small pink nose and black eyes. The rat smelled me and hide quickly again. I mede few steps away so he tried again. Now I saw a whole, pretty female rat, white with a grey hood. It was funny but on another hand I was sure that someone must have throw it away from home. Laboratory rats are not living in the wild. And white is not a safe colour to have, among the red and brown leaves...

- And I dreamt that I had a monkey - I said to my mum but she didn't hear me. Surely she wouldn't be interested much but anyway vacuum cleaner was eating my words together with ladybirds. They must have gotten crazy, we can't get rid of them in any other way. There are hundreds of them on the windows and net curtains. Flying slowly and heavily they crush into the ceiling or die accidentaly under a foot.
- I don't know what to do with all those ladybirds! - said my grandma angrily on the other side of the phone line.
Well, seems that the nature is taking a revenge... ;D

just complaining

My grandma is always very interested in talking with me. Just miraculously our converastion always ends up with me saying nothing...

- So what else will you tell me?
- Err I don't know...
- Did you do a lot of sightseeing?
- Er... yeah, quite a lot.
- Did you went to the theater?
- No. Why? Why do you ask?
- No, nothing... just that when we went to Russia we went to the theater... We've seen a lot on that trip...


- Whate else can I give you? I can make you pancakes!
- No grandma, please, I don't want anything else. I will just eat the cake, ok?
- OK... hm... and what do they eat there, in England?
- What shall they eat? The same as we do. You know grandma, now we have globalization... They have even a Polish Shop there. You can buy "pierogi".
- Oh! Maybe I will make you dumplings?!

Spain

Spending hot, sunny days indoors does not seem crazy to me anymore. Just the opposite...
We went for a short walk yesterday afternoon I felt like I have made a terrible mistake. I could barely keep my eyes open (no exaggeration), like in a very tiring dream. Nobel prize for the inventor of sunglasses!
While in my house in Poland it´s so nice to open all the windows and feel the fresh air, here is better to close all of them and turn on the cooling system.

For me the coolest thing during sumer was to spend all days outside, coming home just to eat. Here I naively hoped to do the same. I realised very quickly that I should rather forget about the past and adapt to the andalusian way of living ;)

I understood all the things that used to be odd to me.

So I get up around noon, enjoy air conditioning during the afternoon, eat dinner at 11 in the evening and go to sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning.Nowhere else it seems more appropriate.
And I like very much just sitting and talking in the balcony, looking at the lights of the city...

Pieśń kosmosu

I was walking next to the sports field and looking at the small hill on the other side of it. It used to look so huge to me. Every winter, as soon as the snow had fallen down, I was running there with my sledges and got crazy with other kids. Going up and ride down hundred times a day. Every lunch tasted delicious afterwards.
At the top of the hill is a metal sculpture from the 70'. It's name is "The outer space's song" and it still makes me feel a bit frightened. Especially when it's dark and the wind is moving the upper part of the sculpture, making a scary noise.
Today I looked at the hill and the word "hill" sounded completely inadequate. It looked rather plain to me.
Did I grow up?
But I'm still overwhelmed by the forest. It's deep green, big and thick, old trees, darkness in the middle of a sunny day... There I'm still just a little girl.

Whatever

I've never been thinking about popularity of tv series. Some of them I liked some, some not. Some of them I found completely stupid, some interesting. Like everyone. Lately I have stopped watching almost all of the ones I used to like. But today, I got a little sad, I was reading a book and thinking what to do next. The only thing that came to my mind was to watch another episode of "The Sopranos". I didn't feel much like watching a movie, just a serial.
So I came to a conclusion that I didn't want to see something new, something that will make me think too much. I wanted to see something familiar. I have already "get to know" the characters and now I just wanted to "meet" them again.
I guess old ladies, who spend their days alone at home feel better when they "know" some tv family for years.They are always there, on the tv screen, and they will never turn their backs on those ladies.
Some may show them life they always wanted to live but had no chance.
eeerr... nevermind.

babies

I walk P. home yesterday. Her baby was sleepy and thus whiny, so she was carrying him in her arms. I was just pushing the stroller.
- Look, Igorek, who is there? Grandpa? Look there!
- Hey! Igorek! Hey hey!
Igor didn't look at him anyway.
- Good morning! - I said.
- Watch out, it maybe contagious! - said P.'s father in law with a smile under his moustache.
So what is contagious? Having a baby? Come on Liv, be a nice girl.
- Hehe, no...
- Well, you should be already pregnant after the tournament!
Do I look like a whore?!
Another guy in my list with a bad sense of humour.

looking for the summer

I feel the green all around.
Grass is green.
Trees are too.
So am I.
Happy.