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As I'll have to give a speech today, I thought a few opening words in Polish would be nice and had asked someone to translate them for me so I could practice, but whe I tried them out yesterday on my main contact in Krakow, he looked horrified and declared I sounded like the Pope (the current one, not the last one, whose image is everywhere in this country, btw) which I must not. I could have protested that while me might both be from the German South, he's a Bavarian and I'm a Franconian and so the accent is totally different, but instead I asked for a redraft and some more practice, and so I hope I'll be able to say hello without sounding too papal.

Thursday had a learning theme anyway. You'll see what I mean.

Colleges, Pendulums and the Mines of Moria )
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The working part of my time in Poland starts on Friday, with some preliminaries happening today on Thursday, so we walked as much as we could through the city at the river Weichsel, Poland's old capital. With several origin stories, but I must say the one which charmed me most was the one about the dragon. Who was menacing the area until a brave shoemaker named Krak tricked it into eating a sheep stuffed with sulfur, which made the dragon with more fire in its belly than it was comfortable with, which made it want to quench its thirst at the river, which in turn made it drink so much it exploded. Krak became king and the city was named after him.

Behold the city in question )

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