Garry is settled in his little apartment, in Novogard (opps I misheard the name before). There's three twin beds, a tiny fridge (it's the first white square countertop height in the photo) and no couch, or AC (not hot, yet anyway) or television, but they brought him a coffee maker. He said they're supposed to take away the bed in the main room and bring a couch. It's on the ground floor, and pretty new. Someone got his phone connected to a hotspot because he doesn't have WiFi.
He has been taking long walks around the lake in the center of the town early (5am) in the morning. It's more than eight kilometres, he's seen lots of people fishing, and enjoying the big trees. He had a free day yesterday and walked around the town for a while. Garry even found the McDonald's for breakfast Saturday morning. He said most stores were closed, except grocery stores. He avoided riding the bicycle after he rode a lot on Friday when he got it given to him. It's in the apartment. He's a little sore.
Friday he got to see what they do three days a week, handing out food and clothing to refugees. Today he was going to get picked up for breakfast and church. Next week he'll learn more about what he'll actually be doing. As you can see he took a few photos yesterday. In the evening he went for a walk and bought an ice cream cone. He was thinking the young people working there might speak English, but no luck. He can communicate with people over fifty because they learned russian in school!
I talked to him at midnight Manitoba time, he's seven hours ahead in Poland. He'd been up since five, he says it's light at four am.
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