A Chip Shop in Poznań by Ben Aitken

Author:Ben Aitken [Aitken, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785785597
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2019-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

I set off for a place called Rudzka Gora (Trash Hill) because I like the name. I take a tram south then get off when I sense a summit. When I reach the bottom, a sign says the hill is closed to climbers. Two women are in conference nearby. Like me, they’re unsure what to do. I take matters into my own hands: after quick introductions, we surmount the barrier and I lead them up the hill. At one point the way is blocked by foliage. I’m ready to turn back but one of the girls thinks that with a run up it can be penetrated, and so it proves. It’s slippery underfoot, but not dauntingly so. We talk as we go. They are from Taiwan, are studying in Łódź to become teachers of Polish. (‘Who are you going to teach?’ ‘We don’t know yet.’) The girls find just about everything funny: my nationality, my name, the hill, their career paths, this path. When I say that the hill used to be a pile of rubbish they belly-laugh as if I was Tommy Cooper and had just cracked the joke of my life. We can see nothing from the summit, save for a smattering of treetops and rooftops, and the odd chimney adding to the murk. It is, as warned, a rubbish hill.

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