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One last plate, with a closeup.

More plate patterns.  With each pattern there are matching smaller plates, bowls, platters, tea pots, creamers and on and on.

What follows over the next three days are six pictures of plate patterns.  The pattern we decided on is marked “chosen”

Nighttime at the Stare Miasto (old city).  Am not sure if the Christmas tree is just late coming down and there year-round.

I am at the Pioneer Theater with a colleague.  The Pioneer is the oldest movie theater in the world, first operating in 1907.  This is the original theater room, small, with people sitting at tables.  We watched Jackie”

This is how grades are done in Poland.  Every student has and maintains a little book for each class, that has assignments done and grades given (with each page signed by the professor).  At the end of the semester, students turn in the book to the professor.  This is a stack of such books for one class.  Seems like an inefficient system, as there are a lot of things for the prof to sign, and there is the assumption that the students will take their education seriously enough to not lose the book, or try to make any changes to it.  The system apparently works well enough.  I am much impressed with the caliber and knowledge of most students here.

A Columbus Coffee is opening near my office.  Exciting News.

Just a picture of some of us drinking beer.  Left to right are scientists from France, US (me), Poland, China and France again.

National Donut (pączek) Day – Poland loves to cerebrate.  Some members of our department eating donuts.

Poland has just come out with 200 and 500 złoty paper currency (the 500zł is worth about $125).  The 500 note shows Jan Sobieski, King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and military leader who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683.  In the second picture you will note that larger denominations come in larger sizes.  Coinage is done for denominations less than 10 zł.