Food / For a beginner Polish cook [10]

Maybe it's some sort of 'smoked sausages' :) And the thing the woman is carrying just looks like a typical hair dryer.

News / sending a letter to poland [33]

Nah! I often buy books via the Internet and none of them has been stolen so far. So just buy a nice and proper envelope and go ahead!

Life / Kissing below the Mistletoe [17]

Hi!
As far as I am concerned this custom is relatively a novelty here. It was taken from the West just a few years ago, before that time hardly anybody had had some mistletoe in their houses. But at present people sell and buy mistletoe very often. Yesterday I went to a local market and saw plenty of mistletoe sellers there. Hope I could help you. Cheers!

Life / How do Polish view others [116]

Personally speaking, I don't like overgeneralisation - Poles hate Russians, Pakistans hate Indians, etc. The truth is that this is rather a "state's policy" expressed by media and many people tend to see it as a general attitude of the whole nation. It's wrong. We can hate just individuals (and this is something normal, for there are a lot of freaks who are so hostile and prejudiced against others), but not the whole countries. That's all.

News / BRAIN DRAIN ON POLAND [101]

And what do I get from Poland 1234? I'm an English teacher here - working in a local secondary school. I started to work in September this year, so I'm a rookie intern belonging to the lowest echelon. My salary (full-time job excluding extra hours) is about 700 zl ( $230) on hand per month!! I'm in dilemma now, for I do like this job and working with my students, seeing their progress and so on (even when they drive me crazy sometimes), however, if I found a better job with higher salary on the local market, I wouldn't think much and go there. I have a family - two kids of whom I take care of - so I'm obligated to keep everything above the subsistence level. Isn't in sad that sometimes you have to resign from things you like like just because you're not appreciated enough?

News / BRAIN DRAIN ON POLAND [101]


Yes Frank. To be more specific - the gross profit is 998zl (712zl on hand).

Travel / 1st time in Poland [78]

If some of you is planning to visit Silesian part of Poland (especially opolskie voivodeship) in the first two weeks of February, just let me know. Maybe I could be your guide then. Cheers!

Love / Polish girls can really have fun [13]

But on the other hand, there's a bunch of Poles who are neither churchgoers nor believers. And as far as a faith is concerned, it should be treated as an individual thing for individuals, not as sth obligatory for the whole country. That's all

Pyramus - you're welcomed here. Cheers!

Genealogy / Polish Silesians? [25]

Oh believe me. I used to attend to high school with a few Silesians - they way of speaking was more or less similar to normal Polish (let's say they were understandable). However, most of their specific phrases had direct connection with German. All in all, it's relatively easy to understand them. That's all. Cheers!