Vlog: Post office in the USA!

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Today we're going to take you on a short trip to the post office! You also get to to see the bus in Milwaukee and a little bit of our neighborhood.

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• Today, we are going to the post office
• A couple of days ago we got one of these notes in our mailbox
• Which means they came to drop off a package and we weren't here to get it
• So, now we have to go down to the post office and pick it up
• So, in a moment we're going to be going to the post office
• And now we are officially going to the post office
• The post office is actually really close to our house
• It's in the neighborhood just west of our neighborhood
• But it's a little further than we usually walk
• So we're going to take the bus!
• Which means that you get to see a little bit of the bus in Milwaukee
• Ok, here we are
• Our post office is on Martin Luther King Drive
• It's in a very old building
• I don't know when it was built but it's probably one of the older post offices in the city
• Here you can see P. O. boxes
• These are mailboxes that you can rent so you can have your mail delivered (and you can come pick it up)
• Without having to give people your real address
• In case you wanted to keep your actual address private for some reason
• So, just the street?
• You're all set, thank you!
• Thank you! Take care!
• We have our package
• For the trip back we don't have to buy a ticket
• When you buy a ticket on the bus, you get a transfer
• Which you can see my transfer here
• Which allows you to take another bus for free within 2 hours of your first trip
• If it's chocolate, it's mine!
• So, we're back from the post office
• We have our package
• When we went down to the post office, we didn't know who it was from, what it was
• It turns out that it's from Poland
• You can see all of the stamps here
• It's from a Bibliobird user
• One of our students who comes to our English discussion lessons over voice chat
• "wilk" is his username on Bibliobird
• So he sent us a present
• In a second we're going to open it and find out what it is
• Alright what do we got here?
• It's for Carrie - some chocolates
• Oh, my gosh
• Oh, wow
• It's hot chocolate
• Or I guess you would say like "drinking chocolate"
• From my favorite place to get hot chocolate
• Yeah, in Warsaw
• And we've got...
• Oh, man
• "wilk" sent us some chocolate bars
• Look at all of that
• Oh, wow
• Look at that
• That is awesome
• We got all the different kinds
• Oh, my gosh
• Oh, that is boss
• That is boss
• And I assume this is more -
• Yeah, milk chocolate
• Now here's some milk chocolate
• Those are pretty packages
• Yeah, with some pictures from Warsaw
• Ah, from Łazienki park?
• Um, this one is
• That one
• The... with Chopin
• And then this is the mermade in old town
• And one last one that I forgot in there
• Wow, awesome
• Well, I can tell you right now that Carrie is going to love eating all of this chocolate
• Wow
• Alright, I'ma [= I'm going to] try it
• That is very tasty
• We just want to say: Thank you so much, "wilk"
• This is a wonderful present