A little Polish travelogue
Posted by David on Friday, April 23, 2004 at 12:10 PM.
An apparently homesick Maciej has posted a rather lovely travelogue about his native Poland which includes a recipe for "Highlander Tea" and instructions on how to smuggle Polish grain alcohol into the US. As well as a bunch of cultural information, oh and some memoir, too, I guess.
If you think of Poland as shaped like home plate, the Tatra mountains run just along the country's southern tip, right where the catcher would be if the catcher were Slovakia (and Hungary were the umpire). I understand that baseball metaphors may be lost on some of my readers, but chances are anyone unfamiliar with baseball comes from a country that does a decent job teaching European geography. No harm is done.
Robert Jahrling, on Friday, April 23, 2004 at 2:06 PM:
That would be "a decent job teaching post-1993 European geography." I bet nobody in Soviet-controlled Eastern European nations learned a thing about any "Slovakia" in school.
Alternatively, perhaps it should be "...anyone unfamiliar with baseball comes from a country that does a decent job teaching European geography, and remembers their lessons." I had a good geography class, but all I remember from it is that I had a crush on a girl in the front row and that the teacher threw erasers.
And to me it looks like the Ukraine is more in the catcher's position. Slovakia can be the little brush the umpire uses to clean off Poland.
Michelle, on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 12:55 AM:
My father runs into the eraser-throwing teacher once in awhile. My sister was in his class at Punahou. His daughter is now 16 and he and his wife have a 2-year old adopted from China. Yes, we are getting old...