SeanBM 35 | 5,808 17 Oct 2008 #4I was just wondering the same thing about the people on PF.I live here.6 years ago I was trying to get a job in Japan to buy a flat in South Africa.So I googled jobs in Japan, it was all teaching English, so I did a T.E.F.L course and while I was their I got offered a job teaching English here in Poland.I have to admit I did not know much about Poland at the time but not many Polish people knew anything about Ireland (things have changed).I actually joined PF to learn more about the social use of computers.
Wroclaw 44 | 5,384 17 Oct 2008 #5What's your connection with Poland?My family, passport, home, work etc.As most of the forum know... I wasn't born here.
SeanBM 35 | 5,808 17 Oct 2008 #8skypeWhat does that mean?, did you meet someone on Skype who is Polish?
LondonChick 31 | 1,133 17 Oct 2008 #9Am British - had never been to Poland until a few years ago.Now, most of my business projects are in Poland and I travel there fairly frequently.
Bartolome 2 | 1,085 17 Oct 2008 #10What does that mean?, did you meet someone on Skype who is Polish?NoIt's how I connect with Poland. (I'm Polish myself)
Solan 1 | 16 17 Oct 2008 #11I work in the building industri here in Norway and there are lots of polish workers here. I have made som good polish friends and I'm slowly trying to learn the language. Went to Poland for the first time this summer.
Solan 1 | 16 17 Oct 2008 #13I went to Wadowice and Krakow. It was great and I loved it! Krakow is beautiful and there was lots and lots to see, and Wadowice is small and very nice!
southern 75 | 7,096 17 Oct 2008 #15Always getting polish women while searching for other nationalities.A strange situation.
osiol 55 | 3,922 17 Oct 2008 #17What's your connection with Poland?A very long piece of string with which I left a trail so I'd be able to find my way back to somewhere I've had a couple of nice holidays. Caution all shipping in the eastern English Channel. I hope I don't trip up any cars innocently driving through Germany.
HAL9009 2 | 325 18 Oct 2008 #20Caution all shipping in the eastern English ChannelHey careful there you might get caught in a propeller and end up being led to somewhere like the South China Sea........, all those strings hanging about the world and that.
purplelady 1 | 32 18 Oct 2008 #21I have Polish ancestors on my mother's side of the family, Irish on my dad's. I live in the US and have visited Poland twice with a tour group of Polish Americans. It's a beautiful country with a lot of history.
Arien 3 | 721 21 Oct 2008 #24I have a few friends in Racibórz, one of my aunts is Polish, my nephew has a Polish girlfriend, I have a Polish friend who lives here in Holland and I also have a few Polish colleagues..I became interested in learning the Polish language because of a girl who told me she fell in love with me, but then she went off with another guy just a few days before she was supposed to meet me..I'm teaching myself Dutch these days, I actually forgot how to speak my own language properly..
Lodz_The_Boat 32 | 1,535 21 Oct 2008 #27Polish, born in Lodz, Poland. Living in Poland...Well... i seem to be a part of the very switch board...then just being connected!
bobbon 1 | 5 22 Oct 2008 #28No real link to Poland; I'm a teacher and we're getting a number of new Polish children into the area, so I'm just interested in learning enough Polish to be able to make them comfortable while they settle in.Oh - and I like those wonderful Polish chocolate bars they've started stocking in Tesco!(I should say I'd be delighted to hear from anyone who has experience of settling into an English school or knows anything about this, as well.)
dnz 17 | 710 22 Oct 2008 #29Came here initially for a few months, Loved it, realised that England was a sinking ship and decided to stay a bit longer.Have to go back to England next week though for a few months :(