Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas

Wigilia is taken very seriously in this house. i can't account for the bottle as i've never asked. plenty of church going (private) students have expressed the same in conversation. however, plenty more have denied the bottle.

it might have something to do with the traditions of families from the east, Poland/Ukraine.

Kutia is another thing you'll see in these parts, but not all others.

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Maybe just before church, by the smell of it...

I always thought it's because Śledzik lubi pływać (the herring likes to swim)

One thing you should know about giving flowers to Polish women, the number is important, you only give odd numbers, like 1, 7,9,11,13, or 15 roses ( or flowers ) watch you girlfriend the first thing she will do is count them, it is unlucky to give an even number.Also make sure you are calling her by the diminutive form of her name, example Beata - Beatka or Joanna - Joasia.

Yep, plenty of booze at Xmas here too (if it wasn't for the kids I wouldn't bother :-D)
From today December 1st, in UK, all the decorations are up; at least two weeks before Poland, so it's comparatively more miserable in Poland, and more of a joie de vivrein UK.

Also, we Brits send out our Xmas cards as from the first week of December, so here's mine to you all:

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WTF ?!?!


Really? Is that a kind of commonly accepted date for this?

Not in Ireland anyway. I don't know anyone who has their stuff up yet. I think maybe the 8th might be a bit of a date for that but it's not nationally observed or anything.

Might put our tree up some time over the weekend.

Animals talking? Sound like the Poles OD on makowiec :-D

easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/christmaseve/a/Polishxmas.htm

animals do speak with human voices at midnight, but no-one hears them because they are at midnight mass and pets are left at home.

yep, with human inner voice... i wonder how many bad words they know...

well, if u only get to speak once a year and the household has just nipped off to church... i'd imagine it's quite a few.

Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas

Take her to midnite Mass, then home, fry some pierogi, bring out vodka and pivo, then give her nice, fresh kielbasa.

Wait a second! What do you mean by...errr... kiełbasa?

or a little sledzik....

No you must never yell at kids, simply lead by example. Only chavs yell.

My Polish cats know all the English bad words....

i thought they only know this one line: please don't fart, we can't breathe... ? ;)

I never fart near my cats....i love them...

Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas.

Ask her to remove the cap off your bottle of beer with her teeth, turn the TV to a football channel, then tell her to go and wash the dishes, ..... after she finishes ironing your shirts.

That should do it.

Take all the screws out of the electric sockets...so that when you pull a plug out the socket comes out of the wall...that will make her feel at home...

Um, couldn't she just enjoy an Irish Christmas...?

Don't worry, if you stay together, you'll be having LOTS of Polish Christmasses in the future. :)

Life's about adapting.

Im Irish, I simply mixed the two traditions of our countries/families traditions(realised how much traditions Ireland actually does not have). But we made pierogi and she got hay!, they put it under the doilies or something and whoever gets the longest string of hay gets luck for an entire year or something :) also she may have been lying but they open their presents on christmas eve and eat seafood for a christmas meal, I objected to this one, hate seafood haha I just made Irish coffee and we got hammered on whiskey and vodka- truly mixing the traditions there lol

What? Do you mean the secularization of Ireland was so quick? I still remember reading articles in communist press in 1980s about Irish strict abortion laws.


Yes, it is true. Waiting till next day`s morning is silly.


Getting hammered on Christmas Eve is practiced in pathological families where alcohol is a big problem.


Yes. Fish is also seafood. Look below:

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