"A multitude of impressions!" That's what Michael Blake used to say in my 3rd year Russian textbook Русский язык в диалогах [ Russian Language in Dialogues ]. And that's the way I'm feeling. Overwhelmed. But in a good way. Colloquially we might say: "Impression overload!" When I was at Middlebury Russian School in the 80s, my fellow students and I loved to make fun of Michael Blake and the idiotic things he used to utter in our textbook -- his experience of Moscow ice cream, his commentaries on 1970s architecture ("In England we too now frequently build using concrete and glass!"), his visit to the barbershop where the barber spritzed his neck with cologne and gave him a little massage. But I guess that's what life in a foreign country is: daily new impressions. We are counting down our last days here in Warsaw, and we have many more things on our "to do" list -- places to see, walks to take, restaurants to try, even a ...
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