Back to the Mrówka
When we just arrived in Poland a couple of years ago, we had just had enough. The house where we could temporarily live was suddenly “gone,” as was the building where we would be doing some of our major projects. One year of preparations…gone. And for what? All our private belongings were unexpectedly in storage somewhere, we had no house to live in, and we were unexpectedly in a small room in a B&B somewhere. Not fun at all. To say the least.
And sleeping in a B&B seems nice? If it’s your holiday… but for us, it was anything but a holiday. From the bank to the town hall, from the town hall to an MOT station, from the phone shop back to the first bank that had messed things up again, from… you get the idea.
What was also not fun, we didn’t have our own stuff. Almost everything was in storage somewhere. Yes, we had a bag with clothes, the printer was with us (because if you’re going to do official things you need to be able to print…) but the rest… somewhere in Poland, no idea where, and no idea when we would see it again. And… we also didn’t have any pots and pans to cook with. Quite inconvenient when your budget is burning up like crazy, and you want to eat something..
On that day, in 2022, we bought one pan. At the Mrówka. A shop where they sell everything. Pans, paint, cleaning products, drill, clothes, lamps, a birdhouse, candy, detergent. You name it, they have it. And we… we were happy for a moment. They had a green pan with dots, it seems like nothing, but it gave us pleasure at the time!
Somewhere in the past few days, we went back to that shop again. Now a few years later, ready (or almost ready…) for our next adventure. Just to reflect on how it was back then and how it is right now.
Because let’s be honest… the projects we do on this side were running at full speed from day 1, literally helping hundreds if not thousands of people, every day was a surprise, every year 5 years older, but also every year see the result that are worth 10 years. Not for our own pleasure, but for God’s glory. Bye Mrówka, thanks for the pan.
