portulaco
30.06.05, 12:31
Hi Uncle Davey!
What a good idea you had with this forum. I will write in English and I
apologize in advance for some mistakes that for sure will occur.
I’m a Portuguese married to a Polish woman and living in Lodz. Actually I’m
working in a company producing grinding and polishing materials for the steel
industry and houseware. Mostly I deal with French, Spanish and Portuguese
language matters.
How it happened to be living in Poland? Quite long story full of details but
I will try to do make it shorter.
I applied for an Erasmus grant to study in WSHE-Lodz in 2001 - Poland seemed
to be the most remote country to go and finish my studies in advertissing.
5 days after the 11 September me and other two Portuguese went to this
country, quite tense situations in the airports at those times I must say.
In the beginning was hard to get used to the differences – mostly the
wheather - but after one month we were allready perfectly used to the cold
nights and the early snows.
Than I met a wonderfull Polish girl, we used to talk for hours, go for long
walks and it hapenned... we couldn’t be without each other and 2 years after
we were married, we tried to live in my country from 2002 to 2004 but the
shameless policy regarding emigrants made it virtually impossible.My wife
never managed to have even a short permission to be living with me there -
even beeing married legaly to a Portuguese citizen- she was illegal in fact.
Solution? I took my small Corsa from the garage packed what was most
important stuff and traveled 3500 km, it was not the first time but was the
last with Portuguese number plates
I like this country –it is wide,it has wonderfull open spaces>Which is quite
the opposite of Portugal.
Poles generally are quite interesting and warm people, not at the first
contact but later.
Keep on with this idea and count with my support.