Thank you for your patience as this has been a long week for us. Tuesday Dawid taught us how to open the shop. He let us run the place for awhile. We had one guest who ordered a Latte and Cheese Brule. He was so pleasant. He had been to the shop previously and we recognized him. He even spoke English! That afternoon we had our first Tutoring session. The weather was terrible, snow, hail, wind, rain. No one came, but we think that is why.
Wednesday was a day of rest for us. We were supposed to visit another local kindergarten but the director was uncomfortable with us coming. We found this out Tuesday night after no one came for tutoring so it was kind of a sad few days. However, Simona let me (Jordan) go with her to pick up Daniel and we also got some window decals for the shop. That night we spent at the shop creating a new drink menu.
Milky Way: white hot chocolate, chocolate ice cream, espresso, whip cream, and chocolate sauce.
Berry Blast: white hot chocolate, strawberry and blackberry ice cream, whip cream, and cherry sauce.
Lodopresso: espresso with vanilla ice cream.
Amaretto lodopresso: espresso with vanilla ice cream and amaretto syrup.
Caramel Mocha: chocolate sauce, caramel syrup, espresso, steamed milk.
We planned to preview the drinks at Friday nights poetry reading and guitar solo. It was so much fun letting our creative juices flow!
Thursday we opened the shop completely on our own and ran it until 3:30. No guests, but we did have 2 students come to tutoring! They even ordered hot chocolate. We just went through their textbook and helped them with grammar. We weren't sure we were actually being any help, but they were so thankful and asked if they could come back next week. They were also shocked and the room wasn't full. We asked them to tell their friends and they assured us they would bring people with them next week. Their names are Alex and Agatka, both girls about 15 years old.
Friday we went to the local preschool. It was officially the first day of spring and the poles have quite a tradition! All the children were dressed in bright colors and hats decorated for spring. We walked around outside, with noise makers and load voices to wake up spring. We also carried around lady winter (a scarecrow) and burned her in the creek. What a tradition! It was fun though to be with the kids.
That night we prepared the new menu board for our premiere. Several people came to the event. One ordered the Berry Blast and one an Amaretto lodopresso. The Berry Blast widened quite a few eyes and two more people got them! What a success!
Saturday was a slower day for us, but at 3:00 we made our way downtown to join Thea for her birthday celebration. We got on a train to Oliwa, a suburb of Gdansk. There is a beautiful park that we walked through and a Cathedral. We were going to a Jazz CLub for dinner but we made it a surprise party with reservations for 6pm. We stalled and went wandering way down the main street. We found a little grocery store to meander through and there was a really good salesman who sold Thea some nice perfume. We made it all the way back to the restaurant and Thea was surprised. Dawid, Simona, and Daniel were there and Ela and Marta from Thea's bible study group. The food was excellent and Thea got to sing up on stage. We were there for two and a half hours. She was so happy.
Today has been a more quiet day as well, but in a half hour we are heading to the shop for the Movie Discussion forum lead by the intern of the Methodist Church. Tonight's movie is The Truman Show with Polish dubbing and English subtitles. At least we'll know what's going on. The last Movie Discussion went very well so tonight should be good.
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