A Water and Firey Adventure

We began our first day as a Global Volunteers team as usual in Poland with a fine breakfast. And then we did the usual activity, determining team goals. Then Dorota shared we could go to the Fire Fighters' Museum with the German visitors who are also staying at Reymontowka. So we drove the 2 K to Kotun. The Fire Fighters' Museum is a branch of Siedlce's historical museum. We were give a great tour. We saw everything from old water pumps to the modern fire engines, along with drawings from a fire fighter's manual that was written in the 1920's.

The photos below come from photos in the brochure for the museum, for when we were preparing to leave I put my water bottle into my bag -- without the cover. Thus I had to quickly throw things into another bag and left my camera behind in my room.

The photo above is of many different types of sirens and alarms notifying others of a fire or the equipment moving about to a fire. Our guide treated us to the sounds of couple that had to be hand-operated, not powered by a battery or any other electrical source.

Reymontowka is one of my other "homes." I found familiar beautiful scenes:

The wedding party scene is still there.

Somehow, however, it looks different. Perhaps the trees and shrubbery are growing about the figures and changing the appearance. For anyone new to seeing this, these figures are 1.5- 2.0 meters tall. They are not tiny as it might appear in this photo.


Here is something I think is new -- or at least I don't remember from the last time I was here.

There are many other new wood carving since my last stay, so more pictures will appear later.

Reymontowka has been busy -- On Saturday evening there was a huge wesele (wedding reception), and those people had barely left the parking lot when groups for three First Communion parties appeared.

The German fire fighters left yesterday and today there are a group of elementary children from various nearby schools who have won a prize of coming here for an overnight stay during which they will be participating in an art day.

Meanwhile we are all trying to get ready for our classes which begin tomorrow. This is the hardest day, because one doesn't really know the students and one can only take a good guess about their abilities and interests. It gets easier after tomorrow when we've met the students.