Life / Poland and Valentines day [5]

Valentines day was "imported" to Poland in the early '90-ies.
In polnish it's called "Walentynki" and it's quite popular within the young people.

Life / Poles in Poland: How did you learn your English? [60]

I started leaning at the age of 5, my parents insisted on private lessons for me and my brother. That was quite good and easy learning for kids. You could forget about the lessons we had at school at that time. A couple of years later we moved to Germany and speaking English made my life much easier, especially also in terms of learning German!

USA, Canada / Polish, American, Polish-American - what am I to you? [34]


Agree!!! You don't change just because you changed a county...
I was born in Poland and I grew up in Germany. My family is a polish/jewish/german/lithuanian mixture and indeed we all still live in all this different countries. I have a German and Polish passport. Even if I spent many of years in Germany I still feel Polish, but I feel home in Poland and in Germany. For the Polish (in Poland) I have some German attributes and for the Germans I have some Polish ones...

But in the end, who cares? Does it really make a difference? I feel European and I love it! Everybody who wants to pigeonhole me... feel free!