While many of us have heard (or may believe) that drafts can cause colds, it is only in Poland that I learned drafts can kill. I would laugh it off as an individual’s idiosyncrasy except that I have heard…
Monthly Archives:
May 2011
So, you wanna have a baby in Poland. You should start from choosing your hospital. After you have chosen your hospital, you should choose an OB/GYN associated with that hospital. Your OB/GYN will perform some tests, give you some…
What a nice Mother’s Day I had. I received adorable wishes, cards and flowers from my girls (which was great) and information that Rosie did not pass through the first stage of pre-school recruitment (not so great). We will…
Lizzie says it is better to be a girl than to be a boy. This is from the girl who was mistaken for a boy twice today. I suppose it is partly because of her manner of dress (a…
…for you have joined the civilized world. Anesthesia during childbirth is now available to the women of Wroclaw. And this time, they really mean it. Read more here. Such a headline could be read any given month over the…
On our visit to the park with our kids, we could see a lot of cool gnomes and one not so cool bottle of wódka żołądkowa gorzka in the bushes. Booooo! I guess this krasnal had to quickly ditch…
A morning distraction on my commute to work is Antonio Banderas -the latest installment in a bank ad campaign which features internationally famous faces. Apparently “Poles know what’s best” and what is best is cash loans from 5.99% interest…
For some reason when I first came to Poland, people liked telling me jokes especially the joke (maybe you know it) with the punch line “piłka…do metalu” (complete with arm motions showing a ball and then a saw). The…
Something’s up with blogger so all comments and posts from the last few days have vanished. Let’s see what happens to this short post. Feel free to comment about any topic just to check if it works.…
…you got some ‘splainin’ to do!…
