Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Interesting day

I saw my Auntie Blima today. We went for Vietnamese food. It was quite good and I enjoyed talking with her. She talked to me about the usual things, how much she admires me, and thinks I will be successful.

We also talked about the family. She talked about me getting married eventually and even suggested that she has the perfect girl in mind.

She gave me a watch much to my protestation. I saw her wearing a man's watch and asked if she had any others lying about. She didn't but said I should take that one. I guess it was one of those, my that watch looks nice, and then why don't you have it.

She told me a story which I found rather disturbing to say the least. It was 1945 or 46 in Poland and the Poles were throwing Jewish children from moving trains. Needless to say I was shocked. She also added that a priest saw the look on her childish face at the time and said "come here and sit down, or something like that".

She also mentioned Pope John Paul and how he acted to help jewish people while he was a young priest. She noted that she gets along well with Polish old ladies and that many of the Jewish old people she knows don't really appreciate that.

She also mentioned that she had a nanny as a young kid, so there was a kind of wealth at the time for her family. As usual she mentioned a kind of dislike for the woman my grandfather married before he passed away.

All in all though I have to say I'm impressed with how active she is for a women her age. She is 90 years old and she is still reading a learning about the world, going on trips, you name it.

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