Law / Retirement laws in Poland [11]

According to the law, at least for today, there's a miniumum 25 years - for men and 20 for women of paying ZUS. That should be a guarantee to receive the minimum monthly pension (now it's 880,45 PLN after taxes). Except that, being 67 y.o. is another requirement, like somebody already mentioned.

My guess is that you could still start paying at 60 and get benefits when 67, but these benefits could be below the minimum pension.
I suggest you visit your nearest ZUS office to get more details. There's a chance they will not speak English, so hopefully your Polish is quite good.

Love / Want to ask a Polish girl out? [27]

Appoaching her when business is slow it's a good idea.(Telling her: "you make me nervous" - not a good idea, imo).

Small talk. Find some points of mutual understanding (oh really? I'm a student, too...)
Then suggest you would like to meet with her after she'll finish her shift, for coffee for example. Polish people generally
go for coffee often. And coffee is just a coffee.

Seems to me you think quite high of yourself (handsome, etc). Do you think quite high of this girl too?
Find her pretty, cute, interesting, whatever? Because it isn't clear from your post, not at all. Hopefully you do, otherwise
asking her out wouldn't make any sense, right?

And if she goes out with you, be a gentleman. Open the door for her, pay for coffee, walk her to the bus etc. Anything less

would be a dissapointment for her. I know, as I'm a Polish girl too. Good Luck!!

Love / Want to ask a Polish girl out? [27]

You're welcome, Jay!

Firstly, I wouldn't worry about asking her out and expect a rejection just because you're not white. The fact is that in Poland generally

99,9% of citizens are white caucasians (my estimation) but while living in London she must have get used to people of different races.

I understand you're affraid of rejection, I really do. You're very young too, and the prospect of being rejected is even more scary when you

are that young. However, I'd say go for it (ask her out), as it seems it's something you really want. In case of actually being rejected, try to handle

it well (ok, it was nice to meet you anyways....). Even if this would happen, you should be proud of yourself for trying (reaching your goal)

and facing your fear (of being rejected). Try to look at this from that angle....
You will not loose anything here, if you try. Good Luck again and let us know, how it goes.