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Joined: 21 Jul 2009 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 31 Mar 2010
Threads: Total: 2 / In This Archive: 1
Posts: Total: 507 / In This Archive: 302 		From: Krakow, Poland
Speaks Polish?: Yes
Interests: reading, travelling, fashion, dance, cinema, cultures du monde

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Nika   
4 Aug 2009
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

The 35-hour week is not everywhere in Europe.
In Poland there is 40 h. work week.
This actually allows you to better ballance work and private life and I find it better than the American "I work 2 shifts and still can't pay my bills" system.
Nika   
4 Aug 2009
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

Nowhere in my post did I say the Polish work week is superior, I just answered to the previous post about 35 h work week, I am sure there is more European countries where people work more than that.

However, even though Europeans work less than the Americans, the social and health care is so much better here and I get the general impressions that the wealth is more balanced in Europe - I've never seen so many poor, homeless people in Europe as I have in New York for example, this really shocked me.
Nika   
4 Aug 2009
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

thanks for making me laugh tj123!
In general, I definitely prefer the European model.
I work my 35 hours a week, get paid every extra hour I do, after my work, instead of going to another job, I can go to a café have a drink or two or spend the whole evening at a terrasse when the weather is nice and still I can pay all my bills, my rent, travels and plenty of other things.

Żyć nie umierać! Life in Europe is beautiful!
Nika   
4 Aug 2009
Love / Polish Girls negative or positive personality trait? [267]

i used to ask my ex why he didn't buy me flowers and his answer was always 'because they die'. boyfriends die too, it just takes them longer than flowers.

Dobre JustysiaS, this bit really made ma laugh!!!!!!!
Nika   
10 Aug 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

after some time spent in my host country (soon ex-host country) I can actually say that I master the national language pretty well, at least 1 out the 2 national languages - sorry Flemish!

I was wondering how many expats living in Poland speak Polish a little bit/quite a bit/well/ very well/perfectly...
And if you do speak Polish then how did you learn it and what do you think about it?
Nika   
11 Aug 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

Polish vocabulary seems more limited. When I ask someone to translate something complicated for me, the Polish version often seems rather basic.

I disagree about the limited vocabulary, maybe the Polish version is basic because the people that translate don't master the Polish or English language enough. Translation is difficult and sometimes it is hard to find the right words.

Often when I am asked how to say something more complicated in Polish I just translate the general meaning 'cause I don't feel like making efforts - lazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy....
Nika   
15 Aug 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

interesting feed-backs, thanks!!!!

honestly, I really admire foreigners that speak Polish (even if it is just basic) because it seems to me that Polish must be very complicated to learn.

How do you deal with all the cases and genders? How can you actually learn it when you are not a native speaker?
Nika   
15 Aug 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

ha ha ha, kurwa being one the most popular Polish words, everybody knows it!
Once they get their fck*** beer do they say na zdrrrrrrrrrrrrrowie or cheers? ;)
Nika   
15 Aug 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

but do they say na zdrowie or they say cheers (kurwa may be the most popular Polish word but na zdrowie is the most popular Polish expression)?
Nika   
15 Aug 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

If you live 1 month in Poland and don't learn na zdrowie you should get a prize or something.

agreed!
I think 1 evening is enough to learn na zdrowie ;)
Nika   
18 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

does that mean men are condemned to slappers, slags, gold diggers and sluts when we go to a bar??

no you are not. I disagree with Amaranta - it's not like only sluts and gold diggers go to bars and nice girls go to work and crochet in their spare time!

When a men meets a girl in a bar than I guess it's a question of intution to tell if she's nice or not. If you feel that there is something wrong with the girl you just don't continue the conversation with her, don't buy her drinks etc It's just like when you meet anybody new - the person makes either good or bad impression. If it's a good one then you will socialise with the person, maybe become friends and if it's bad you just don't...
Nika   
18 Sep 2009
Love / What do Polish Guys Like Women to Wear? [64]

Why do you hope they do?

I hope because I find them ugly, they just make me think of some Eskimo shoes and I can't believe that people pay a lot of money for such an ugly thing...

My last boyfriend thought they looked cute..he wasn't Polish but English-Cypriot...maybe Polish guys are way behind the rest of Europe?

since when liking Ugg boots determines whether or not you are behing Europe - what a silly statement....

I mean, if women have to go around looking like high class escorts or something?

Another silly statement. I don't like Uggs, prefer high-heels and nice clothes but I'm not some kind of high class escort!
Nika   
18 Sep 2009
Love / What do Polish Guys Like Women to Wear? [64]

They are hardly sexy but they are practical.

hardly sexy? They are all the contrary of sexy! They look so much like Relax shoes - the most popular winter shoes in communist PL.

They will make any foot look like elephant's.
Nika   
18 Sep 2009
Love / What do Polish Guys Like Women to Wear? [64]

Spend a bit more and get a good make rather than the cheap, nasty imitations lol......

I wouldn't want them even for free :)
Nika   
18 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

if she says 'well aren't you going to get me a drink then??' after we have been talking for five minutes, i'm afraid that is a bad sign!!!!!

it's a VERY bad sign - if it happens then that's when you turn around and run.
A well educated girl would never ask such a question. Not only is it rude but also humiliating to ask a guy that you've known for 5 minutes to buy you a drink - I'd rather die of thirst ;)
Nika   
18 Sep 2009
Love / What do Polish Guys Like Women to Wear? [64]

Because you only posted 2 quotes without any comment, njc. Well, that's what came up on my computer anyway, amigo.

came up the same way on mine!
Nika   
19 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

Girls, please rate sex out of 10. Let's keep this on topic.

yes Sir!

Sex with someone you love: 10.5 (important, very important).
Nika   
19 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

you must have some secrets to share,

secrets must stay secret - bez spóły ;)

The sense that western world and eastern world looks down on them?

looks down on them????!!!!! Maybe in your imagination.
If you think that this is why PL girls go out with Arabs/Pakistani/Indian guys than it means that you know absolutely nothing about social relations my dear southern.
Nika   
19 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

Then why is it like that?What is the reason?

one of many reasons is that these guys don't say such stupid things like "The sense that western world and eastern world looks down on them".

Unlike many western people, they don't have the complex of superiority you see, they don't look down on us but see us as equal.

As I said, this is just one of MANY reasons sourthern but you will never understand it as you are not a part of this particular milieu.
Nika   
19 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

I write polish girls have the sense that westerners and polish look down on them,that is maybe why they go for third wordlers,you write ''these guys(the third wordlers) see us as equal''.So basically we say the same.

no southern we definitely don't speak the same language. I don't categorize people as being 1st, 2nd or 3rd worlders first of all.

Second of all I don't ever have the sense that westerners (certainly the first world class in your opinion) and PL (????!!!!) look down on me and I am a PL girl (certainly somewhere between 2nd and 3rd class in your classification).

Again, an Arab/Indian/Paskistani guys don't make such stupid statements so if I had to I'd choose someone who thinks in the good/bad people categories and not the one that thinks in 1st/2nd/3rd worlders categories.

As I said before, you are not a part of our milieu therefore it is perfectly normal that you do not understand some of our behaviours.
Nika   
19 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

I cannot imagine anyone saying ''how can you be interested in me since I am a third wordler?''

I meant your statement about how the others look down on us. Obviously it is easier to socialise with people that don't despise you just because of your origin don't you think southern?

You don't know what milieu I'm talking about? It's funny because you think you know everything about PL people.
I mean foreigners southern, foreigners considered by the locals as being inferior, worse then them.
Nika   
19 Sep 2009
Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

This is a question for those women away from home. Do you feel more inclined to have sex due to a feeling of liberation? Being away from home brings different chances and changes ones behaviour.

I think Seanus has a point here.
The feeling of being anonymous (abroad nobody knows you or your family) as well as lack of parental control definitely influences sexual behaviour of some people. Especially if you take young, naive people.