i_love_detroit: Lukasz says hello...

Hi,
well, i've been on the site for a while, but have not introduced myself yet. I am very busy lately so i post very few posts. My name's Lukasz, i love to travel, recentely I lived in North America however soon i'll move back to Europe, most likely Germany fo vacation and Great Britain for next couple years (for University). I am cynical and have very specific kind of humor, basicaly based on irony. I like music (GOOD music, sublime, yyys, the white stripes, stuff like that) books, movies,... Yeah i am Polish. Well, that's me, nice to meet you guys...

Lukasz, Hello, glad to meet you, I have a Question, What is it you love about
detroit? or is that just a name you picked?

Hi Łukasz. Good question above....

well, Krysia, reasons I ask is so many say detroit is so run down, so baddddddddd
we are baddddddd people to live so close to such a run down horrible place, so
I am wondering what it is he loves about detroit.

I love hockey town, and the festivals, and fireworks july 4th and concerts and
the ice shows etc. car shows, baseball games, and of course the varietys of
resturants. greek town etc. not to mention the science center , Art and so many
other things. like where you and Sledz Live, plenty going on. plenty to see.

I've been to Detroit several times and I like it. I like the architecture of the down-town.
The roads were a little bad, but maybe they improved since. I've been in Orchard Lakes College for a while because my aunt was writing a book about a Polish Priest she knew and they have a lot of information about Poland. I even saw a picture of my grandfather on the wall as a Polish pilot fighting alongside with the US soldiers.

Krysia, where was that (picture) at?

by the way, roads are still bad, my car says so lol

Wrote a book about a polish Priest, who was the Priest ?

my cousins Uncle was priest in Detroit as well as poland. They were from Poryte
He studied in poland and Here.

The picture was in the library on the campus of Orchard Lakes College.
And the priest was a Polish priest father Gogoliński who lived in London and my aunt who used to be a nun became good friends with him ( No hanky-panky though) and after she left the nunnery she was his house-keeper. When he died he left his house to her in England and since she knew the most about him, she was invited to Orchard Lakes to write about him.

What I love about Detroit?
I love old abondoned buildings from 60/70ties,
I love grungy rock night clubs (my favorite: Leland City Club),
I love people I met,
I love annual Woodward dream cruise,
I love annual car show,
I love cultural diverity with great population of black people,
I love that there is plenty of highways,
I love...
I hate I cannot live there...

so where do you live? outside of detroit?
yes they have some work to do, but it isnt all bad. I wont get into that other
discussion again. you like Hamtramak?

WOW, that is pretty cool Krysia. Yes, Detroit does have alot of Polish Information
and I am glad, because most of it is gone ( the old communities) and the church
that my Grandmother Married in will be closing in October of 2007.
they lost many Parishoners and they will probably donate the items .

its a beautiful church as are many of the Catholic Churches in the older Polish communities.

Well I do not live any more in Detroit area, but I lived in suburbs, Bloomfield Hills... Hamtramick? It's probably a place that I like the least.

How come you have the same avatar? It's so cunfusing...

hey.detroit is allright