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Life in Poland

Overheard – Usłyszane

Overheard yesterday at Carrefour: Daughter to mother in the exotic fruit section, “Don’t buy kaki here. They are cheaper at Biedronka.” Who knew? Son to mother in front of the live carp tank, “Mother, if you don’t want to…

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Company Christmas Parties -Biurowa Wigilia

Yesterday evening, I attended the Christmas party of one of my client’s. It will be the only company Christmas party for me this year. Not that I wasn’t invited to any others, but one a year is quite enough.…

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The Streets Are Black -Drogi są czarne

You know, I’m from the mountains of Pennsylvania. It snows there too. A lot actually, but somehow the snow never bothered me like it does here. Maybe that’s because like a typical American, I pretty much drove everywhere. I…

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Santa who? Święty kto?

I could possibly be the worst parent in the world. Well, maybe not the world but the worst parent on my street this side of Żabka at least. I did not get my children anything for St. Nicholas Day…which…

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Humor polski

Is there something such as a Polish sense of humor? I think that there is. Maybe we are more familiar with the British sense of humor (Monty Python and all that) or the American sitcom sense of humor, but…