What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland.

Flowers seem to be the normal gift , in Poland , Belarus , Russia , and Ukraine...but what about male teachers...do they usually get flowers too...?

They sometimes get flowers.
Some students give them box of chocolates.
I think Pgtx's ideas are the best.

Sometimes they give them...cars. Sometimes they request things they need, like irons, carpets. You did not do a search, I see.

Can somebody give my girlfriend a new Jeep grand cherokee please....?

write to Mr Putin's son (does he has any son?)

You didn't read my entire post did you...

By the way ... gifts are more than flowers ... I don't like the concept anyways ...

Nobody likes. Do you really think that those 15 zł I was getting from my parent for flowers each year I wanted to spend on a teacher I hate??

* Zet was clever and was always buying drooped rose for 3 zł *

I don,t think he does...i will ask though...

I thought that was the deal?

no. No better marks for flowers. Absolutely not. It's just a custom, nothing more.

Zeti, maybe if its a 3 Zloty battered rose you don't lol

What kind of gifts? ;)

Learn from the Bible, gift bearing is good :) :) Love your neighbour, LOL. It doesn't seem to be followed by some here.

I've received gifts before and have always been grateful for that :)

I took a teacher a present...all the way to Kiev , and got ten days of hot soup...! , well , actually it wasn,t soup . , but it was hot...!

Merged:Women's Day in Poland and Gifts

Int'l Women's Day is this week, is it yet another one of those day when I'll be made buy flowers, chocolates etc?

If it's not a names day its a birthday, or it's mothers day or valentines or etc....

just for a change I wanna get something....
we should start a "buy the foreigner a present day" coz he's always getting stuck buying you presents for meaningless days :P

There is Boy's Day but I don't remember the date

its got fek all to do with buying flowers.......

A bloody good idea. If you're teaching, don't forget to remind them about Teachers' Day...

Womens' Day has a strong political point about equality and human rights. It may have turned into just giving flowers to women who now get equal pay etc, but still they have more often than not to do a day's work and then go home to do the full housewife thing.

So flowers are nice, really, and forgetting to buy them would be noticed. It also reminds people of Womens' Day, and the reasons for having it as well as keeping it alive round the world, especially in countries where it is very much needed.

U better use it, to prime her up for St Pats so you can go on a large one with the boys...

boom! now we're talkin'......I dont want flowers though.


enlighten me so


unfortunately I am yea, if I get presents for teachers day and boys day then I'm ok with buyin herself some dandelions on tuesday :P

There's no "Boy's Day", there are however "Days of Men" and the celebrations begin every year on March 9th and go on until March 7th the following year.

PS. I like chocolate! :)

So here's to all the PF women, ladies, girls, madonnas, chicks, princesses, kobiety, dziewczęta, dziewczynki, księżniczki, koteczki, słoneczki, żabki, etc., etc. :-)))

You can't be serious! Is that going to become the next big holiday that requires buying ****? No no no! We don't need another one. We have enough already. Hope it doesn't come over here.

There is. Just look
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzie%C5%84_Ch%C5%82opaka

30th of September.

In Poland we dn't have Men's Day. Proof here:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzie%C5%84_M%C4%99%C5%BCczyzn

Read in Russia there's professional women walking around drunk in their business suits on this day.

you're dead right there man, yea I better get a dozen dandelions :)

Ok,so maybe I spoke too soon :)...Its got fek all to do with buying flowers here.....maybe in Poland its been turned into a commercial venture...TBH the only publicity Ive seen for it here in Yorkshire is little flyers for Dzien Kobietta (sp) all flowery and st valentinesy.......so looks like a worthy cause has been turned into naff comercialism in Poland before the UK ....:)

I think Poland had Women's Day before they had International Women's Day. Hence the commercialism has always been here.

Aha,that explains it then, one of the old communist days...right o,now that you mention it Im sure you are right. But its a shame then that something worthy has got lost in something naff all the same.

I would say the opposite. If a group gets a holiday designated to them IMHO is a way of saying "You are not equal and historically you never were, but we love and cherish you nevertheless". Where is the white man's day, after all?

Especially in communism, the women were cornered into believing they have equal rights, but how many of them actually got to take key positions in the country? Also, it's not a secret, that womens' salaries were essentially lower than men's during that time.

right,marynka...your talking about Polands commie inspired "womens day"....those of us not dragged up under the reds think of,ironically, "International Womens day"....which as has been pointed out was never a "holiday" or a reason to give flowers but a day to highlight the plight of women in religious and culturally repressed sociaties......

Flowers are always women's favorite! Just sending them flowers and some little gift at their birthday, wedding anniversary or other holidays will make them ecstatic!

Here is an awesome online florist to recommend, FlowersofChina, which provides high-quality flower product and the one-day delivery service to every city in China.