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October 2011

Life in Poland

We are lucky ducks!

Look what we got! Delicious homemade Halloween cookies from Lois B. – otherwise known as the Polish Housewife. They were packed with care and sent all the way from Poznań. They arrived in perfect condition 🙂 Lois, our postman…

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Attention Drivers

Spotted on the ground in the parking lot outside my building. Laughed my ass off. Laughed much harder than if sticker had been found on my car. Loose translation: You have received a penalty dick for the dicky parking…

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Halloween is around the corner…

We are gearing up for Halloween next week – that is if gearing up means only thinking about all the things we have to do for the Halloween party without actually doing them. Lizzie plans to be a police…

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I couldn’t resist….

Apparently our homegrown celebrities are not sufficient for the city of Katowice and for the grand opening of the Silesia City Center. Guru of hotness and not-ness, Paris Hilton, deemed Poland worthy of her catchphrase and declared Poland officially…

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Coincidence?

This morning my most jaded student ever told me that I looked beautiful. Hmm, my new “Russian Red” lipstick from MAC is really powerful stuff. Then he informed me that he had not done his homework. Coincidence? I think…