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I also later learnt that the phrase I was learning translated more into ‘best wishes’ or ‘all the best’ than happy birthday. I spent all the Friday and the car ride over on the Saturday getting Elly to coach me on that one phrase. I thought it’d be easier to learn the language and now I was going to be eternally connected with the place I had started to pay more attention to it. I wasn’t having a good time but I wasn’t the worst foreigner and at least now I was trying. We had rented a small green Fiat to go over to her Mum’s. It felt like a shed on wheels and shook when you got any kind of speed up on it. Elly was driving though and this was the car she chose. I had seen the Seat sedan and thought that it looked more comfortable and respectable. Elly didn’t want to show off. She dressed down for the occasion and made me wear a simple polo shirt and jeans. I kept telling her to calm down, I was fully confident that her family would love me. After all she was some village girl done good. She wasn’t sure. I wasn’t catholic. I was excited about going back to the UK and had arranged some flights for a few weeks later. I had even called up my old football club and booked their social room for the Friday night. I had sent a facebook request to my people in England and told my Mum that there would be a party and an announcement.
She got very tetchy when I told her she’d have to wait to hear what it was like everyone else. I think most other people would have guessed that it wasn’t a welcome home party or I’ve got a promotion party, which only left wedding or pregnant. My friends and family didn’t need a named excuse to have a drink though, as long as it ended in day, there was a reason to drink. As we left the offices and tower blocks behind and passed through the outlying area which was mainly warehouses and cheap motels Elly said nothing and remained focused. I kept pestering her about <strong>Polish</strong> and had bought a small book but the hardest thing was the pronunciation. Just like with many languages the key is training your eyes to see familiar letters then letting your brain spit them out in an unfamiliar sounding way. I was also hugely confused by how the endings of the words changed. I read about all the rules but none of that would stick and it all seemed very random. I stuck to learning simple phrases and trying my best with the harsh pronunciations. We got to a railway crossing where even when no trains were approaching everything was forced to slow down to a trickle as the quality of the road was so poor. A lot of people had commented about the roads but having been in Warsaw and Krakow they didn’t seem bad but as we ventured towards the wilderness I could see why people complained. <strong>The</strong> three lane super roads that were omnipresent in the capitol had given way to thin strips of concrete. If two cars approached each other, one or both of them had to eat a little dirt or there
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tried to gather my thoughts he recl
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He was a bearded God though. If onl
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Cathy was coming by tomorrow but I
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She strode through the rolling barr
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We didn’t really have any plans f
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“Where ever your promotion is.”
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How fucking insane would that shit
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Royce was whacking away to an escor
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We were interrupted by the arrival
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“I love the jaja.” She muffled.
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est of my life and more nervous abo
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A country manager’s job! Wait did
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She pulled an angry face at me but
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Every call went the same. I’d dia
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considered staying in bed all day w
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Elly was checking out the make-up i
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With that she kissed my cheek and t
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“I saw show about them.” She sa
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called it with a wall mounted flat
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I was awoken by Monika banging on t
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me there were mitigating circumstan
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There were about six, maybe more ar
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was soup. It didn’t look very edi
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and once I caught a tram I ended up
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Waking up with Elly’s drool was a
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“Can you put me one in as well pl
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We returned to the flat at 5 or 6 p
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We had watched a movie about vampir
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“You are big boss man. You make t
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potato. Everything got mashed toget
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“Yes.” Yes to what nimrod? “I
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I knew this was part of the job and
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The balloon turned out to be a bles
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customer service section. Monika fo
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I had planned a simple test. For ea
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worked. All the things we took for
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was now tugging on his belt and I c
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I rushed down the stairs in a very
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“Ok, bye.” I said to him roundi
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I hoped they had gone shopping or t
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Page 125 and 126: “We always were for me.” I said
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Chapter 23 I was minding my own bus
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“I have something else for you as
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I knew that it was a waiting game n
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They call it Disco-Pol and it is a
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might have been a desk jockey but m
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Nothing is as depressing as a depre
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went off, I understood what the cur
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“I’d rather have real builders
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had brought a blanket, some doggy t
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I remember thinking that it might n
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“No. I won the feature writer for
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I could have been nicer to the fema
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We continued but his leg was betwee
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From Elly’s side she invited Klau
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Monika and Aniesto snuck off somewh
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awake whilst simultaneously letting
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In the peace of the night with the
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took ourselves off to the black hol
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“It can’t be true anyway.” I
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joining the separate units together
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I was the one bleeding! I lifted he
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“He can’t do that to you. I won
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“I know. That’s why am doing it
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knock someone’s fucking block off
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“So what they want to wait until
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I sat there calmly thinking what to
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stood my ground and he regrouped. H
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him. He was bubbling over with jeal
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They weren’t triangulating his ce
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I continued to pelt him and he stop
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According to the police he was stil
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I had searched everywhere for what
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“What?” I said confused. I was
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We ended up agreeing that we’d go
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closer to a sixty hour week. After
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extremely close to accident. In tim
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enough as was driving on the opposi
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I had been invited to be a speaker
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etter reason, against evolution and
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that I had to piece together over t
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meeting didn’t last very long tho
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Elly had slowly learnt to cook and
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“How’s Elly and the bump?” Th
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“Here you are love, don’t forge
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What did that mean? Oh yeah that me
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“What about Poland?” I tried to
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We shook hands and I returned home,
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