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BevK   
28 May 2009
Life / What should be done to make life in Poland better and more enjoyable? [94]

- one flower for every girl
- one pint of beer for every man
- ice cream for every child

Some people might like something they're not allocated. I hate beer but I love ice cream :)

I think Seamus is right re PMA, which is something I try to bring with me everywhere I go.

I'm looking forward to Warsaw roads post-remont (though watching the roadworks is entertaining, especially the opening and closing of tramline chasms).
BevK   
28 May 2009
Life / IKEA in Warsaw [30]

I do find it a bit weird that the bus is free since I have a monthly travelcard - I know people who lived here for years spending 9zl a day on travel ... crazy!
BevK   
28 May 2009
News / The SHHHH protesters - did anyone see this? [13]

LOL thanks guys (oh I will get there all right, I am a determined creature :) )

However did ANYONE get to see what they were talking about on that news item? :) lol
BevK   
28 May 2009
News / The SHHHH protesters - did anyone see this? [13]

I'm cursing my lack of progress in Polish, I really would like to have understood what the broadcast which was just on TV was saying (perhaps I am being hard on myself after only a few weeks of study). Did anyone see this?
BevK   
27 May 2009
Life / Looking forward to move to Poland in September, but I have some questions. [12]

It was certainly one of the more boring evenings I have spent here ... and yes, good point about an adapter/cable.

If anyone is in desperate need of one of these, BTW, I do actually have a spare one (not with a Euro plug yet but it has four UK sockets I think) - nearly everything I have now has a Euro plug, including my mobile charger as I had to get a new phone out here. So if in need let me know!
BevK   
27 May 2009
Life / Looking forward to move to Poland in September, but I have some questions. [12]

Do you not think that these goods are available in Poland? If I were you I would sell them in the UK and buy new in Poland.

DON'T ditch your electricals, they are of course available in Poland but for 4zl a shot you can buy a new plug in Carrefore (maybe cheaper elsewhere, people?), cut off the old plug and rewire them.

There is no polarity per se, so you wire the blue wire to one plug pin and the brown wire to the other. SIMPLE! I did this with everything except stuff which needs a transformer and tbh I wish I'd brought some goodies I gave away like my footspa bath!

BTW you're not moving from the Leamington Spa area with space for a couple of boxes of books are you? (Don't ask, don't get :) )
BevK   
27 May 2009
Life / Indian moved to Poland [532]

Given the majority of Polish people I have spoken to, the willingness to be tolerant to other people's cultures is there.

However what is also very strongly there is a sense of pride and a sense of what it is to be Polish, this is not something which will go away. At least I hope that there is never a loss of "Polishness" for any reason.

People have also said that if there was a massive influx of another culture that there would be problems - given the history of the country this should be clear, and explains why there is so much nationalism, perhaps.

@ the OP: if you can make a Shahi Paneer to rival that on sale in Southall in West London you will have a customer. Also, if you can make excellent Pirathas.
BevK   
26 May 2009
Life / Expats in Poland: Are you going to live in Poland long or short term? [65]

I'm going to be here for at least a year. Why can't I say further than that? Other factors still at play for now, which might become irrelevant. Those won't take me back to the UK though, and already I'm feeling like they are becoming less alluring.

Besides, if I look BACK a year I'd never have believed what has happened in that time, how can I know what will happen in the next 12 months? Especially, I came here cos I wanted to, I might meet someone who makes me want to truly stay without even any thoughts of going anywhere else next.

My only concern is keeping myself with enough money I think, but that would be my worry wherever I was. I already know England will be a strange place when I go back for a wedding in September, Poland feels like home again now in the way it did when I first came here and loved it enough to leap across the water to my father's homeland :)
BevK   
24 May 2009
Life / 1st ex-pat assignment advice needed about settling down in Warsaw. [16]

There's lots of expats here, though whether you want the expat lifestyle is a different matter :) However, you would certainly not be alone, lots of us in Warsaw from various places and there's usually someone with advice and help here on PF. They're a great bunch (apart from me maybe :) ) - where are you from?

If the job really is great and you can get some perks out here, why not? What sort of thing do you want to know about? A lot of the topics might well already have been covered in other posts :)
BevK   
22 May 2009
Life / So it's hit me too, isolation in Poland [46]

Warsaw - that's not why I posted here tho SRK. Even in my first post I mentioned getting over "the hump" - what is actually helping more is going to the gym and accepting that there is no longer a clear and obvious path of progression (i.e. that the relationship I was in is now definitely over, because I made this choice to come do what I am doing, and it was the right choice for sure). This is called being alive :) If I meet only expats then I am not REALLY living here but I might actually do that from time to time when I need to share my sense of British humour, lol.
BevK   
20 May 2009
Life / So it's hit me too, isolation in Poland [46]

This is all very true Trevek.

Esp the point about Birmingham.

So here are a couple of things. I have memorised my new mobile number and can say it in Polish. I'm starting to understand now what people might be saying (not always perfectly but enough to start to get by). And TVP Info seems familiar and comforting, at least a little :)
BevK   
20 May 2009
Life / So it's hit me too, isolation in Poland [46]

your mental condition.

Uh ...

My home town is Leeds, and I have lived in Birmingham and London (the latter, happily at the time for 10 years). I don't think normal homesickness is a mental condition (I know you don't mean that but it made me smile).

Things are changing already, little things are becoming familiar - it's a process we all go through I guess :)
BevK   
19 May 2009
Life / Women in Poland dyeing hair red [30]

I call it Eastern European red - many years ago on my first visit to Czech Rep I couldn't believe how many woman who had this brassy coloured hair

Apparently it was - mine is the shade Toni and Guy coloured it tho, so there Shelley x
BevK   
19 May 2009
Life / So it's hit me too, isolation in Poland [46]

Don't call yourself stupid :) I have no way back to my old life for a reason - whereabouts are you?

Guest asked me why I was homesick, well that's just how it goes sometimes, and it is getting better every day. The gym isn't about meeting people tho, it's about feeling healthier and more active and getting myself how i want to be :)
BevK   
19 May 2009
Life / Women in Poland dyeing hair red [30]

American women don't color their hair red

Doesn't mean American men wouldn't like it - I know at least one who absolutely loved my scarlet tresses, as they were at the time, especially with the green eyes. LOL.