Christmas Eve was without a doubt the best one I can recall. We’ve never spent it with other people than the two grannies, so this year with my cousins and their families (about twenty people) was a big and very positive change. I found it just very cheerful and happy and less stressful than the usual craze of mom preparing all the food and organizing everything herself.
Apart from all of the fun in Warsaw, I also managed to get away fro two days and visit a former flatmate from Lisbon in Wroclaw aka Ms Keys. On the way there, I shared the compartment with a crazy depressed guy (who wouldn’t stop talking or bothering the rest of us), a cool vet and a relatively friendly 50+ woman, who looked as though she was one of the ever-so-well-known “mo-hairs”. For the readers who are less familiar with the Polish reality, there’s a loud and infamous part of the Polish society, that has a rather orthodox and narrow-minded way of looking at things, follows an anti-Semitic priest’s teachings, listens to a radio channel called Maryja and watches a TV channel Trwam (both publishing right-wing and xenophobic views). The vet and I ended up chatting all the way from Katowice to Wroclaw, once the nut and the mohair left the compartment.
Anyhow, back to Ms Keys. We hadn’t seen each other since my visit to pick up my stuff in June, but it felt like it had barely been a week since we met last time. Both of us have moved to Portugal because of a guy, both have been through a break-up and now she too is moving back NE. We spent the two days sightseeing in town – looking for dwarfs and visiting the beautiful university and panoramic painting exhibition. It was a blast seeing her again and I do hope that she moves to Warsaw as planned which would give us more opportunities to meet.
