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Dobie Zinnia
June 25, 2010

I have been trying to learn some Polish prior to my trip to Poland.  I got a wonderful set of CDs that I am using to learn what I can in a short amount of time.  They are right - it pays to learn a language when you are young!  When I was in my early teens, I asked my fathr to teach me some Polish and those few words and phrases are fairly easy for me to remember.  Anyway, good-bye (See you later) was a phrase I just could not seem to remember.  I don't think I learned that one when I was younger.  Here is what it looks like in Polish:  Do zobaczenia.  After having so much trouble remembering that phrase, I came up with a helper - Dobie Zinnia.  The Dobie is like the character Dobie Gillis from the TV show in the late 1950's - early 1960's and zinnia I had no problem remembering because I love gardens so much.  Well, do zobaczenia doesn't sound exactly like Dobie Zinnia, but it is close enough that I can now recall the phrase! 

So in closing today, I will say Dobie Zinnia!


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