- Where'd the shampoo go? Ok, I'll get another bottle. Hm. Two choices. This one is green and has a leaf on it. This one is clear and has a turnip on it. Obviously, I HAVE to try the turnip shampoo. My Poland experience can't be complete without trying the turnip shampoo.
- I found a board game store! In Warsaw! In... the main train station? I asked the proprietor to recommend some uniquely Polish games so that I could have proper geek souveniers to bring home. I am now the proud owner of:
Mali Powstacy (Little Insurgents)
The players are child scouts delivering messages to the resistance fighters in Warsaw during the uprising! Every turn you will get new orders to deliver. If you can't sneak past the Nazi Stormtroopers in five turns, it's too late and the brave fighters at the front die because you failed them. The game ends when the Nazi's crush the resistance, burn the city to the ground, and kill everyone the players held dear. A children's game, ages 8 and up.
Kolejka (Queue)
The game of waiting in line! You are a grandmother in Warsaw, 1980. You have a shopping list. Maybe something on your list will actually be in a store today. Probably not. But you're going to gossip until you find out where it might be and then get in line and you're going to wait for it like a motherfucker.
- Early snows caught the trees in Warsaw by surprise, coating many of them while their leaves were still in flaming autumn shades. I had the University Botanical Gardens to myself, no footprints in the snow except for where I'd come from.. That's a memory to tuck away and keep.
- My flight back to the US has been cancelled. Lufthansa doesn't want to fly into Hurricane Sandy as she lands on New York, it seems. Pansies.
- I just realized that Lufthansa's name is probably a reference back to the Hansa Teutonica, the old trade syndicate that made the northern coast of Europe its bitch for a couple centuries.
