One of the last activities Michal & I did in Wroclaw was visiting his family farm. I had no idea that Michal had farming skills in him. Nor did I know how fearless he is of animals on this farm. Normally Michal shies away from animals (especially birds) but on this farm, he was a natural! He helped bathe the horses, he gathered all the geese and chickens in for the night. He got the calf all taken care of. And he told me lots of childhood memories of coming here and helping out. The only thing that I did on this farm was help Zosia collect eggs from the chickens, and sneeze my head off. I felt really bad, but I guess since I'm allergic to hay - I get all puffy anytime I venture out into a farming area. I sure wasn't cut out to be a farmer, and I didn't think that Michal was either until our little excursion here.
I was incredibly impressed with how "handy" and knowledgeable everyone here was! I was stunned by how large the veggies were in Agnieszka's organic garden. And I was astonished at Zosia's fearlessness of catching a hen. I dared her to catch one, just to be funny. But she actually went ahead and did it. I would be terrified! This girl wasn't!
Zosia even showed me how courageous she was when she fell off her horse. She is learning to jump right now and this horse is a retired jumping horse. She is taking it slow, but I think that once she accidentally gave him the wrong signal and fell off the horse as he went one way and she leaned the other. This gave me quite a fright, but her dad wasn't worried and was proud of her for getting back up and jumping back on the horse and trying again.
Everyone here welcomed me like I was right at home and tried to feed me over a million meals (which is, of course, the Polish way). I had a blast and was grateful that I got to come here to experience this part of Michal's childhood. I feel like it helped me to get to know him a bit better.
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