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Culture Shock Since Moving to Poland - Anybody Dealt With This Before? [52]
how did you deal with it?
Like you i consider myself adaptable , always try to make the best of whatever situation i am in....I had all kinds of problems since moving here over five years ago , all made ten times more difficult because i don,t speak a whole lot of Polish...Sometimes i would struggle a week to sort out something that would have taken me ten minutes to do in the UK...
Slowly though i made friends with some Polish people that spoke enough English to comunicate with , and i learned to do things the way Polish people do them....
Its not enough to be adaptable , its no use whatsoever trying to live like an Englishman in Poland , because if you do you will find constant problems , situations that are alien to you...!
The only answer is to be as Polish as you can be , learn from them how to live in this country , and you might start to enjoy it....
I am not asking for sympathy , but i have had all kind of problems that most Brits don,t have to deal with , and i am sure that many who complain about Poland wouild have given up and gone home if they had half what i had to deal with...
I guess being stubborn helps me a lot , i made my mind up that i was staying in Poland no matter how tough it got , and i kept telling myself that many Polish people have a tough time here , so why should i get it easy....
I am living in an old run down farm , totally alone , with very little money , a far cry from my life in the UK , but its what i chose...
In the winter life is hard for me here , but sitting in my garden in the sun , listening to the birds , and watching the deer feeding in my field makes it easy to forget the winter.....
I hope you get over your depression , stop feeling sorry for yourself, ok you are disabled , but you ain,t dead , learn to live with what you have , look at all the good things in your life , and stop worrying about the things you cannot change , or those that do not matter..
I like to think that if things got really bad for me i would not moan about them , i would either shoot myself , or sort it out....
Get out with some friends , have a good time , and be part of the culture , its not so much a shock then....
PS...my name is Ian too...but everybody calls me Jan....
