Lublin This is what happens when you get other people to take pictures of yourself. These two girls had so much trouble trying to take this picture, and I tried to explain to them what I wanted, which was not much, but they spoke no English and we were not communicating. But we were laughing. I was trying to get them to not cut of the top of the Lublin castle. When this fiasco was done and they turned to leave I yelled back "Thank you!" in Polish. They both turned and looked at me like, "What?! You speak Polish after all that!?" I guess at least my Polish "thank you"s were getting convincing by now. The few words I set myself to learn in each country was "excuse me", "thank you", "yes", "no", "please", "hello" and how to count to three. Using my word list and then pointing or saying a proper name gets me pretty far, and I never needed anything more than 3. Table for 1, 1 ticket, 1 room, 2 or 3 nights, rarely more. These are the words that got jotted down in my pocket notebook I carried everywhere. But I still had great trouble remembering them. Such is me and languages! You are here...