mixed mixed feelings

i was a little unfair last time when i wrote about warsaw. now i've come to appreciate it much more, but still there's a lot of 'buts'. my mood changes every fifteen seconds from loving warsaw deeply and never wanting to leave to missing everyone and everything that is not in warsaw...

warsaw's grown a lot. it's all new and really beautiful (esp now with all the blossoming trees). there's a few new buildings, renovated streets, metro stations --- but the new buildings are huge shopping malls, expensive condos, all in glass and steel. is this warsaw that i want?

there's a lot going on. film festivals, concerts, arts --- but there's not much variety. now that salsa and modern dance are so trendy, it's really hard to find a jazz dance class

it's good to be among friends and know everything and everyone --- but since i came back, i haven't been to a coffeshop where i wouldn't meet by accident a friend or two. it's nice but feels claustrophobic. and still it's 99% white middle-class catholics and not much space to discover and learn.

but there're some just good things :)
..i'm living with pyzia, karol and two other friends and it's sweet.
..efte (our brilliant non-profit) is doing great and growing in power quickly. soon we'll take over the world:)
..some exciting trainings are coming up
..i'm leaving soon



and now some picts.

pyzia in the morning

welcome at the airport (with the garfield that was drawn on the day of my birth:))

and efte linien bag from our action in supermarkets.
it's a bag made from polish lininen, manufactured in a resocialization
program and printed in a print cooperative in warsaw