Garry's weekend

 Garry has less to do on the weekend, although he started his Saturday painting the outside of a container used to store stuff. It's going to be green with black trim he tells me. He hopes to finish it this week. He did say someone noticed he had paint on his elbow at church, and it's right across from the container. Friday night he went to a movie at a nearby theater and was excited to discover it was in English with Polish subtitles. 

 He did some biking on the weekend, watched some kids Motocross races on Saturday. Sunday after church he biked to some nearby places and found some old Protestant churches. He says that this part of Poland was part of Germany before WWII. He had a bit of excitement when he realised he didn't have his backpack at the second place he stopped. He rode fast back to McDonald's, where he'd had some lunch, and when he asked the non-English speaking staff, they went into the office and handed it to him.

Today he rode about fifty kilometres on the bike he said, saw some old churches and got a photo of the swan that attacked him, well ran at him, maybe it was hungry? He said he saw one with babies yesterday but didn't get a chance to take a photo.

Of course, today was a day they hand out food to Ukrainian families, he said there were a lot there today, because the weather had cleared up and it was sunny in the afternoon. The weather has been mostly cool and drizzling. There was lots of talk about a new policy that they will only give out twelve weeks of food to Ukrainian families, he said.

He only drives the van for work, mostly picking up the food that's given away. He has to turn the headlights on, even during the day (like in Ukraine) and he keeps forgetting to turn them off. Someone is supposed to make them automatic this week. He's also going to drive the van for a seaside excursion with some people from the church on Thursday.

This weekend he talked a bit in Russian with some of the Ukrainian families in his apartment building. One lady with two kids from near Kyiv said she hoped to return home after the summer so they can start school at home, if it seems relatively safe, their apartment is not damaged at this time.