The thing that it was easy to forget about Poland was that he was really pretty shy. Especially around people he didn't know well, and (in Wonderland) especially without the off-switch on the communicator providing a convenient escape route to embolden him.
So it took a lot of emotional effort to get himself up in front of all those people, as good as he was at hiding that nervousness behind a confident smile. He'd dressed somewhat ahead of his time today (though still rather behind most people's), with dark brown breeches, tall boots, and a white blouse and short cape embroidered with flowers and tied with red ribbon.
"Hey," he said, sounding casual and in control despite the butterflies in his stomach. "So I'm like, the Kingdom of Poland. I'm five hundred-ish, I've got a wicked awesome place south of the Baltic sea but we can't go there 'cause the Queen's lame, and I rock hard at farming and horseback riding. Ummm, as far as music, most of what there is in my time is like, hymns and chants and stuff, but I've totally been checking out some of the stuff my people do in the future, y'know, like, in the library. And I think it's pretty cool. I guess there's probably a lot I haven't heard of, but I'm totally gonna learn more!" With the CD player Elaine gave him months ago. It made him feel a little less like he was avoiding her.
"So yeah, I like, picked a song some of my people wrote... kinda closer to the time everyone else seems to come from, 'cause I like Church music, but it's kinda slow, you know? Um, here goes."
He hits the play button on his little boombox, and goes into his musical number (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBMz9upWd0k). The translation is here (http://skadipirate.blogspot.com/2010/08/poland-big-cyc-bad-luck-like-pole.html), but to cut a long story short, the gist is that Poland has shit for luck but it's cool because there's still time to keep making things better; presumably, thanks to ~Wonderland Magic~, people could understand it. When the music ended, he glanced around at everyone, trying not to look too shy or awkward.
WHOO, GLEE TIME :D
So it took a lot of emotional effort to get himself up in front of all those people, as good as he was at hiding that nervousness behind a confident smile. He'd dressed somewhat ahead of his time today (though still rather behind most people's), with dark brown breeches, tall boots, and a white blouse and short cape embroidered with flowers and tied with red ribbon.
"Hey," he said, sounding casual and in control despite the butterflies in his stomach. "So I'm like, the Kingdom of Poland. I'm five hundred-ish, I've got a wicked awesome place south of the Baltic sea but we can't go there 'cause the Queen's lame, and I rock hard at farming and horseback riding. Ummm, as far as music, most of what there is in my time is like, hymns and chants and stuff, but I've totally been checking out some of the stuff my people do in the future, y'know, like, in the library. And I think it's pretty cool. I guess there's probably a lot I haven't heard of, but I'm totally gonna learn more!" With the CD player Elaine gave him months ago. It made him feel a little less like he was avoiding her.
"So yeah, I like, picked a song some of my people wrote... kinda closer to the time everyone else seems to come from, 'cause I like Church music, but it's kinda slow, you know? Um, here goes."
He hits the play button on his little boombox, and goes into his musical number (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBMz9upWd0k). The translation is here (http://skadipirate.blogspot.com/2010/08/poland-big-cyc-bad-luck-like-pole.html), but to cut a long story short, the gist is that Poland has shit for luck but it's cool because there's still time to keep making things better; presumably, thanks to ~Wonderland Magic~, people could understand it. When the music ended, he glanced around at everyone, trying not to look too shy or awkward.
"So, like... I guess that's it!"