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Life in Poland

Weekends

A Village Weekend Our house            A City Weekend The Zoo     A picnic in the park We all brought our tents Rosie’s counting…like this….Two, three, two, three, two, three. Szukam! Quick! Hide! Lizzie (in…

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Sex and the Teachers’ Lounge

The Polish teachers’ lounge in my experience is a very relaxing place especially if you don’t speak Polish. I mean it becomes a relaxing place if you can get over the fact that everyone around you is speaking a…

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Second day of School

The second day of school was my first day to have actual classes with students, and I was pretty excited. This was a college prep high school which included 4 grades numbered 1 – 4. The younger students were…

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First day of School

My first trip to the Baltic Sea had come to an end. I left the Baltic a little sad but also excited to get the school year underway. This would be my first school year as a real teacher.…

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Just found out I’m cool…

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/garden/21cold.html?ref=style …or maybe just cold, brrrr. It’s -17 ° Celsius right now (about 1°F). That’s cold. I had to go out and start up both cars. I pray that they will start up tomorrow. I ran across the article…

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Gówno, one of the charms of village life

Ah, the charms of village life. Fresh air, fresh food, what more could you ask for? How about a movie theater and a cappuccino? As I have mentioned before in another post, we are crammed into our microscopic apartment…

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The Gospel according to Doda

I’ve recently discovered a blog that probably the rest of the world discovered more than a year ago – http://www.livingoprah.com/ It’s by a writer from Chicago who did an experiment of living her life for one year following all…

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City Girl?

The Polish Miracle I do not consider myself exactly a city girl, but if you are not a country girl then what are you? I spend the work week in the City of Wrocław performing the Polish miracle of…