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President Obama visits Poland

President Obama is visiting Poland and all they keep showing on TV is the one lady who didn’t know anything about it and her car got towed. Riveting and hard-hitting news.One good piece of news is that I think…

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What’s all the Hubbub? VISAS

Polish people need a visa to visit the US. Poland is not one of the countries included in the Visa Waiver Program. Does that surprise you? It sure did surprise President George W. Bush a few years ago when…

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Wpadka

You’ve probably heard the President  Obama had a wpadka while giving the posthumous Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski – the man who tried to warn the world what the Nazis were doing.  No, you haven’t heard about it?…

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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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9/11

It’s 10 years since the 9/11 terrorist attack on the US. 10 years ago on September 11th, I was in the Village, at my in-laws’ to be more specific. It was a workday but Misiu and I were, at…

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In All Fairness

In all fairness to the idea of culture squashing, last weekend I decided to do my best to partake of other cultures besides mine. First, we went to a City festival entitled “Europe on a Fork” where chefs were…

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Sorry For Squashing Your Culture

A summary and discussion of the paper by Fernando Ferreira and Joel Waldfogel, called “Pop Internationalism: Has a Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?” can be found on the Freakonomics blog here. This paper refers to…

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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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My “American” neighbor

I have an American neighbor. Actually, he is Polish, but he lived in America for more than 20 years before he and his wife came back to Poland to retire. By looks alone, it is difficult to distinguish them…

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Ain’t no sunshine when you’re gone

I like to read the newspaper everyday, actually several if I can find the time, in Polish and in English. Spending a lot of time with two little kids, I need to keep in touch with the outside world…