USA, Canada / Sea freight to US from Poland [7]

Thanks for the recommendation. I called Polonez and they said they only handle shipping from the US to Poland, not the reverse. They told me to contact IC Shipping, but IC shipping won't do anything smaller than a full container. I've only got a pallet or so and a container is way more than I need.

Any other recommendations?

Study / Polish preschools in Warsaw? [4]

In Mokotów, near Metro Wierzbno.

Travel / Cheap flights from Warsaw to other European countries? [11]

Also I'm not opposed to taking a train somewhere if I can get a better deal.

Study / Learning Polish in Warsaw - good school recommendation? [47]

I am taking classes at Polonicum at the University of Warsaw. My instructor has been very good but the class is too big (fifteen or so). My wife and I also took private lessons from polish4you.waw.pl/start.php?lang=en

I was extremely pleased with Anna Wojtasiak as a teacher. She tailored our course to our needs, came to us and taught in our apartment, and it was not as expensive as I had expected.

Travel / Area's of Warsaw worth a visit? (including outdoor camping) [9]

Merged: Boy scout camping/hiking in Warsaw area question

I am a youth leader at my church in Warsaw. We are starting a varsity scout team through the Boy Scouts of America so that our American boys can continue in the Scouting program. Does anyone have any recommendations of great places to hike or camp fairly close to Warsaw? Any other outdoors activities you'd recommend for this area?

USA, Canada / Gift idea for something uniquely American that is difficult to find in Poland? [67]

Thanks for all the ideas, guys. This thread provided me some great entertainment.

I guess the real question is would a baby bison get along with a pygmy marmoset? If not I better only get him one or the other ;)

Language / plural forms (cztery kubki / czternascie kubkow) [23]

Quite confusing. I'm glad I will be able to take a class once I get there. Polish will be my fourth language but the grammar is so different from English or the romance languages I have already learned. I think I'm gonna put away Rosetta stone for a while and concentrate on my grammar book. Rosetta is great for helping me with listening and pronunciation I think but it hasn't helped much with grammar at all.

Life / Cost of delivering a child in Poland [30]


My wife will be having our second child in Warsaw around February.


Since neither I nor my wife are Polish, my understanding is that our child will be born an American citizen by blood and we will just have to register his or her birth with the US Embassy. In our situation our child would only be born Polish if he or she would otherwise be stateless, which doesn't apply here. We will need to get a passport.


I would love to see that article. I'll PM you my email address.

As far as insurance, at this point medicover looks like our best bet. I'm not dead set against using state hospitals but I can't get a visa for my family without proof of health insurance, and medicover would cost less than half what insurance from one of the foreign companies that caters to expatriates would charge. Medicover has English-speaking staff which helps too since my Polish isn't very good yet. I don't think there is a way for non-EU citizens to use the state system (If I'm wrong please let me know, I'd like to know all my options- the main concern is the visa thing).

Life / Cost of delivering a child in Poland [30]

I will be in Warsaw in September. At this point I am still in the US.

Classifieds / Warsaw (PL) Tabletop Role Playing Game Group for Expats Only. D&D Fortnightly [87]

I'd love to join you in September. I'm moving to Warsaw for grad school in September and haven't been able to play a good pen and paper D&D game in a long time. I've DMed several groups and am very familiar with 3.5, at least. I think its silly the way they feel a need to release a new edition so quickly. I hope you guys will have room for me.

I love playing unconventional characters. Two of my most memorable characters were a halfling barbarian with a major napoleon complex and an insane monk who thought he was actually a mage. At the worst possible moment the "mage" would stop fighting unarmed and start trying to "cast" something. He also had an imaginary dragon familar he spoke to on a regular basis and everything he said was always in rhymes. He was a lot of fun to play.

Life / Best place to buy winter clothing in Warsaw [11]

The stores where I live don't carry any real heavy winter clothing anyway; it doesn't get cold enough here even in the wintertime, and even if they did they won't have it during the summer when I would need to buy it; I'd have to mail order, pay shipping on that to here and then ship it to Warsaw. Is the price differential sufficient to justify that?

Also, are trenchcoats common in Warsaw? I'd rather get a coat that would look good over a suit as well for church as well as more casual clothes, but not if it carries a negative connotation- a friend of mine said that at least in Bulgaria they were associated with the mafia.

Life / Realistic grocery budget for a family of three in Warsaw? [20]

I am unfamiliar with either of those terms. Google tells me that Biedronka is a discount grocery that sells mostly local products under store brands and is targeted toward low-income consumers. That sounds a lot like Aldi in the United States where we do most of our grocery shopping (we've always been frugal people). What is Kaczynski style?

I assume that Biedronka is probably the way we would go. I assumed that we would be trying to buy as local as possible to keep costs down.