Agnieszka is at university and has an hour free. Her coursemates go to the library to study, because there will be an exam next week. But Agnieszka doesn’t want to study right now – the exam isn’t until next week, after all! She goes to the student common room and sits down on a beanbag. She listens to music on headphones but starts to feel bored. Agnieszka opens the dating app and scrolls through the profiles. Maybe there will be someone interesting? Unfortunately, all the profiles she looks at are boring. There’s only one that she likes – a profile without a photograph. The username is @Tigrys.

”Hello! Latgalian from Texas, who knows what tigers like to eat. By the way, I don’t know a single other Latgalian in Texas – my grandmother doesn’t count. I like penpals. When you read this, I will most likely be asleep, so you can wish me good night.”

Agnieszka laughs. She starts to write a message:

• Hi and goodnight! My name is Agnieszka, I’m from Poland, I also like penpals. Especially because letters can travel fast from Poland through Latgale to Texas! 😉
• P.S. What do tigers like to eat?
• Good evening !
• My name is Odums. Nice to meet you! It’s very late, so I’ll reply in the morning. Goodbye!

Agnieszka smiles. She likes that Odums writes seriously. Perhaps he doesn’t know any other way.

• P.S. I guess I got mixed up, and I should have written not “goodbye”, but “see you”.
• P.P.S. Tigers like to eat hands.

“What kind of hands?” Agnieszka thinks to herself, while in her headphones plays “Tańczę polskie tango // Nogi w błocie mam, bo Wisła to grząskie bagno…” But she smiles.