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Life in Poland

What did I know anyway?

And what did I know about Polish relationships anyhow? Maybe it didn’t work like in America. I decided to forget about this Misiu guy and I turned my direction to Maciek. I mean, I didn’t have a choice, he…

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All my Ex’s Live in Texas

I remember the first time I met Misiu’s ex. And she wasn’t his ex at the time. There was the first time I was supposed to meet her. She had invited me through Misiu to go to the swimming…

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It’s not a love story

I’m not gonna say it was a love story, an epic romance for all time, because if you knew me, you’d have trouble putting together the idea of me, silly me, with the idea of a love story and…

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Wyątkowy dzień!

Here’s a postcard recently received by my Misiu, holder of an Orsay Club Card. Wjątkowy dzień! Witaj Misiu, Czas spełnić marzenia. Odkryj siebie na nowo robiąc zakupy z Twoim osobistym bonem urodzinowym 20 PLN + 200 DODATKOWYCH PUNKTÓW i…

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By Easter he was with me

When I came to Poland, he was living with his girlfriend, his parents stockpiling vodka for their future (yet unplanned) wedding, but by Easter he was with me and not with her… …and it had nothing to do with…

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Getting Sick in the Village

I learned that as a first year teacher, I was bound to get ill often, and as a first year teacher starting her career on a different continent, I would get ill very often. Mutated germs, I guess. I…

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Happy Birthday Misiu!

It’s my Misiu’s birthday, a big round one. Some people might be affected by that nice round number, but not my Misiu. So what, he’s 40. He’s 40 with a smoking hot wife (hee, hee) and two of the…

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WWIII started by the English!

The English language that is. I am the first to admit that my English is not perfect. Have you noticed my punctuation issues?Even though English is my first and basically only language, I have been known to make a…