My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria

Imagine - pedestrian versus car - who is going to win that confortantions.

Round One - On the road - the car
Round Two - In the court - the pedestrian or his heirs

You mean "badal"?
If you're in GCC, it is 5 years, elsewhere, it is 10 years and the amount is double.
I suspect when the situation in Syria settles (which will probably take longer than 5 years) you will see a lot of changes.

yeah exactly badal .


mmm no ? maybe you're info is old :P but it's 5 years abroad (wherever you are ) and now they rose the amount to 10k $

Students from all over the world about studies in Poland

Video prepared by company which earn on advertising studies in Poland [study fun], so it's naturally biased. Video doesn't show any negative opinions about studies in Poland.

yeah I visited this website before and I liked its page on facebook ,as you said .. it's really encouraging foreigners to come and study in poland

Not sure about your statement mon ami!

bloomberg.com/slideshow/2013-07-23/top-20-where-to-fin d-the-world-s-fastest-internet.html#slide1

well .. I got a 20mb internet connection in my room ,I was surprised that my dorms are that well equipped :)

well, this is pretty cool! Especially if you compare it from Syria or the country I come from! :)

Universities created interned in Poland. They always had the fastest Internet and usually dorms were connected to the university networks. It's much slower when you live in small town or in the village.


I don't like such slideshows.

netindex.com/download/allcountries/

USA - 33th
Poland - 46th
Hong Kong and Singapore of course top 2 places, as the richest city - countries in the world.
Surprisingly Lithuania and Romania 11th and 12th. Moldova 17th.

Syria nearly last.

lol yep my connection back home is 1mb


yeah my friend in romania told me that they have one of the fastest internet ,I was shocked too .


no surprise there :P

Not very surprisingly, especially regarding smaller countries.

Their governments realized that quality of internet access is important for economy, culture, communication...

And even it costs a lot - it's still much cheaper to build than other parts of infrastructure like roads, airports or railroads.

So Return On Investment in internet infrastructure is high - those countries had old network infrastructure and they upgraded it to most modern standards - they jumped 'from zero to hero' :)

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/want-super-fast-broadband-try-lithuania.ars

Particularly Baltic states got strong finance and know-how investment from Scandinavian (which also have highly developed internet access) companies, like TeliaSonera which took over local telco providers.

Well just a rando thought just saying i'm just gonna read this whole post in like a years times or something and then it will be really cool just to read the whole journey through the first year. Just try to figure out the simple stuff dany like washing your clothes COME ON lol. But have fun!!!!!!!! And start J-Walking :P

Estonia doesn't need any Scandinavian know-how. This small country is a world leader in IT and Internet security.

But as I know - TeliaSonera (Swedish-Finish company) owns 100% of Eesti Telecom which is main telco provider in Estonia...

That was due to two reasons - proximity to Finland and Sweden combined with political leadership that recognised the absolute need to become a leader in that area.

aha ,I don't want to get a permanent disability or even die :P thank you anyway for the advice

Today I had a nice experience :) one of PF's celebrity members (delph ) :P showed me the city and gave me really useful tips :) now I think i'm well prepared to start my life here .

Oh .. .he also bought me 1 beer and 1 vodka shot :P don't know why he felt like doing this (showing me the city and buying me drinks ) ,that was really nice of him :)

Nice isn't he? lol!
By the way - good luck in your studies in Poland.

The second part I agree with, but not with the proximity to Scandinavia argument:

- In the 1990, the Estonian banks introduced online services that were ahead of anything in the West, including Scandinavia.

- Estonia became the first nation to hold legally binding general elections over the Internet with their pilot project for the municipal elections in 2005. The Estonian parliamentary election, 2007, also used internet voting, another world first.

- In 2003, Skype, a voice-over-ip service and software application, was developed technically by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn, who were also behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing software.

- In 2007, Estonia made international headlines by becoming the first country in history to successfully
defend itself against a large-scale cyber attack (from Russia). A positive outcome of this event was that
Estonia's capital, Tallinn, became the home of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in 2008. Etc.

I think it shows that it was Scandinavia following Estonia rather than the other way around. More here:

ericsson.com/res/thecompany/docs/publications/business-review/2012/issue2/life_in_e-stonia.pdf

lots of people handing flyers in the streets ,don't know how companies think that it's a good way of advertisement . It's really annoying actually (in my opinion ) .

Yeah, it is. I take them only to be nice, I stuff them into my purse and throw them out into the bin when I get back home, usually even without looking at them. Such a waste of paper (and trees)...

me too


yep

I went to biedronka to buy some beer ,so the cashier told started telling me something in polish ,I gently replied "nie mowie po polsku" , she pointed to my wallet and removed my syrian ID card (it's all in arabic ) the look on her face was priceless :P so I understood that she wanted verification for my age ,I gave her my polish passport she was more amazed :P .

why do I look so under-aged :/

priceless stuff!
keep em coming Dany!

what the **** happened there ? XD i'll fix it : *started telling me


lol ok

Get some manly stubble. I've never once been asked for ID for either tobacco or alcohol (though, admittedly, I rarely buy alcohol since I don't drink). I was with my lady once and she was doing the ordering, including my tobacco, and she was asked for ID (but didn't have any since we'd only left the house to go to the shops), but once she started speaking to me in English, they just said forget it and gave it to us anyway.

I would if I could :/

Don't worry kid. I'll shave and sell you some of my facial hair ;)

Do you need some manly chest hair too? ;)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I gotta agree with blue on this one danielle

But blue chest hair only covers up abs.... as long as if you dont give her enough for back hair :P

another annoying thing :P my wallet is full of groszy :/ it's annoying ,especially when I pay for items that cost something.99 -_-