I have an address! ('Mam adres!') I got the email this morning giving me details of the flat, and I now have an address, phone number, and fitted kitchen. All I need now is a map to find out whether it really exists. Unfortunately internet map tools aren't very well suited to streets in Poland, so my searches for ul.Ogińskiego have run into problems of scale. I know it exists, because I found it on a map of how to get to a building company. The problem is, I've no idea where it is because its impossible to fit that map into the larger map of Gorzow. Apart from that though, all I need now is someone else to be around today who I can be excited with about everything.
The main surprise for me, when I heard about the flat, was how much bigger it sounds than what I had been thinking of. Having spent the past two years in an attic in a student house, and the year before that in a broom cupboard, it came as a massive shock to me to hear that I will have two bedrooms, a living room, bathroom, kitchen and a hall, all to myself. I'm not sure what I expected (maybe another broomcupboard?) but it's reminding me very insistantly that I'm now in the real world and I'd better be very good at teaching. Almost as exciting as having two bedrooms and an address is that I've got satellite tv and all furniture and utensils. For someone moving out of a house where the bath plug empties down the electric light of the room below, this has come as something of a shock.