Hello one and all! Just wanted to post a question/comment request out to everyone. I think there are only a few of us that are going to be in the same locale on Thanksgiving day, but I talked with Jenni, and her and Danny will be in Utah the weekend before. So we were thinking that we should have a Currit feast that weekend before Thanksgiving and hopefully catch some people before they leave town (namely me and Rilee...).
Since we will be having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner on the actual day, we were thinking that maybe this dinner could be the non-traditional Thanksgiving we have always talked about. Like who actually likes turkey? Who would rather have honey-baked ham, or duck, or huge mountains of slowly cooked ribs? Huh? Huh?
Anyway, I thought this would be a good format to start giving suggestions on what we could have at this dinner. So start posting what you would want!
Or say its a dumb idea.
Travis and Agata, feel free to post as well!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Pictures from a Polish wedding in Poznan
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| Przemek and Iwona Wedding |
The first ones are of our trip to a friend's dzialka.
Possibly there will be a slideshow below this:
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Happy Birthday Dawn!
Tomorrow (the 24th) is Dawn's birthday. She wants a day off to read a book and eat dinner with Tyler and to nap. So I'm tending the girls until bedtime. They are a full time job. Happy birthday, Dawn! We love you so much and hope you have a wonderful time.
Fotos
Here's a link to some photos I put up on Picasa.
http://picasaweb.google.com/travcurrit/LodzAndKrakow?authkey=Gv1sRgCKP5tqSI59vgnAE&feat=directlink
Monday, September 20, 2010
Checking in
Just saw that Mom put an APB out for me on the blog a month ago. Sorry if I've been uncommunicative. Please everyone feel free to chat me up if you see me online on Gchat or Skype. I'd love to hear bits from all of you.
Congratulations Danny on the 50 mile run!! That's spectacularly awesometastic. I enjoyed the details in his blog post. I think I would feel like puking after eating all that green goo, too.
I saw the pictures from the Labor Day trip up Brisky Canyon. Those are the things you miss most when abroad. It was fun to talk to y'all while you were there. Grandma and Grandpa have a huge fan in Barbara. They started sending her the Currit Chronicles, and she makes us translate every word, even the parts about flowers or people she doesn't know.
We went to Krakow last weekend to meet up with friends from the History department at UW. One was in Lithuania doing research, the other in Prague on vacation. I'd been the Krakow a couple times already, but always for real quick, sort of in-transit visits, so I decided I'd take the chance to go again. Agata and I took the train down on Friday morning from Lodz, and then I dragged her and one of my visiting friends to Auschwitz, for what was supposed to be just a short look to cross it off my to-do list, but ending up being about as nasty as a trip to a concentration camp sounds. It was a strange combo: to get there, we had to take a half-full bus that meandered through every village on the way, doing 70 kilometers in about 20 hours. Once there, there were Disneyland-size crowds everywhere. We did the tour in reverse to avoid having to hire a guide. Auschwitz II - Birkenau is striking in its immensity, giant fields of barb-wire, guard towers and barracks. The main camp actually looks like a pleasant little town. Except the buildings are full of human remains and gas chambers. Very disturbing.
On the way back, about 100 people were in line for the 30 spots on the second-to-last bus out of there. We decided to throw delicacy aside and push our way through to the front. Agata led the way. She can be quite the fighter.
Krakow itself is straight out of a fairy-tale, an extremely charming medieval European city. I had somehow missed that before, probably because I had insisted we head out to the post-war Socialist-built districts. We had a great time just doing touristy things with my friends, visiting churches and museums, stopping frequently in quirky cafes and bars, and eating delicious pierogi. We stayed in a hostel that had the benefit of costing only 10 dollars a night and being located right in the old town, and the downside of being located right above a karaoke bar. We didn't get much sleep.
We're back in Lodz now, trying to buckle down to work. I'm trying to wrap my head around doing a dissertation, make connections and explore archives, apply for future funding, improve my Polish, and study for my exams. In reality the days seem to blow by before I get through a tenth of that agenda. Agata is plowing through her dissertation, making steady progress in my opinion, but frustrated a bit herself. On Friday we will head to Poznan for our friend's wedding. I'm quite excited to see a real Polish wedding. It's going to be in a castle of some sort. We'll also have a bit of time to see Poznan itself, which is supposed to be quite nice.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Happy Birthday Jenni!
Happy Birthday to Jenni on the fifteenth of September. What a summer she has had! She is now the glad owner of an upright piano of good quality. Ask her about the classes she took in Canada. It's all very interesting. We enjoyed seeing she and Danny and the boys last weekend. We love you Jenni! You are a special, one-of-kind, unique, fantastic person.
End of Summer
What a concept! Summer is about over. We had a sudden change in the weather in Washington and followed it all the way home. I was just getting into the heat! I wore shorts and flip flops, enjoyed the cooler evening, went on water slides at Cowabunga Bay twice. I had at least three more months of summer in me.
I'm writing this to inform anyone reading this month's Currit Chronicles that Dennis and I were on the trip over Labor Day, and we are still breathing, talking, making some sort of impact, at least on each other. We were there.
Agata sent some pictures of their apartment. It was very modern and nice. I can't tell the size, but the layout looked good. It might be a hard place to leave. But they must. We are looking forward to Christmas (and Thanksgiving).
The kitchen remodel is going well. The work of measuring and imagining it is in full progress. Once we get to the destruction-construction stage, we have to know what we are doing.
No more daily Deseret News!! How will I ever eat my breakfast? What has happening to my life? Half the folks don't have land-line telephones, no daily paper, nothing to watch on tv. Deseret News will be on line and delivered or mailed once a week. It's not the same.
Jak started school. He has a friend name Amir. He likes his teacher. Things are going well.
l will post more news later. Love you all!
Mom
Family in September
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