EXPATS - TELL YOUR STORY

[Gość: EXPAT]

GREETINGS ALL FELLOW EXPATS IN POLAND. LONG AGO YOU CAME TO POLAND FOR
ADVENTURE, LOVE, CURIOSITY - OR JUST TO DO STH DIFFERENT. WHAT HAVE THE YEARS
HERE GIVEN YOU? WAS IT WORTH IT? WHAT'S THE FUTURE?

[Gość: local]

STOP YELLING!!!

[Gość: Expat2]

Why don't you say something about yourself first?

[Gość: przemek]

Wow, really impressive!

It seems like no expats are interested in presenting their stories in Poland.
What a shame, it would be also interesting for us - Native Poles :))
Sorry for writing here, although I am not expat, but I would like to polish my
English :))

[Gość: Expat2]

Well, in that case, I'll write something about myself; maybe it'll encourage
other expats to join.
I met my husband (a Pole) in Montreal, and came here with him about 10 years
ago. It was meant to be temporary, but after about a year we decided to stay.
I decided to put the skills I'd learnt from my studies (English Lit.) to good
use, and so I started working as an English teacher (yes, very original).
Contrary to most foreigners living in Poland, I like it here and I like my job.
My family has grown in the last few years - my husband and I have a 5 year-old
son, Dawid, and a 3 year-old daughter, Dominika. Also unlike most foreigners
in Poland (at least those I've come across), I bothered to learn the Polish
language and I've made a lot of Polish friends.
Do I regret having come here? No. Has my experience been positive? Yes. Do I
consider Poland my secong home? Almost.
Hope this will do.

Canadian, eh?

[Gość: fake Canuck]

[Gość: fake Canuck]

What you like, what you don't about the country and the people. Don't be shy,
we'll swallow it :-)

[Gość: lover-hater]

Gość portalu: Expat2 napisał(a):

> Well, in that case, I'll write something about myself; maybe it'll encourage
> other expats to join.
> I met my husband (a Pole) in Montreal, and came here with him about 10 years
> ago. It was meant to be temporary, but after about a year we decided to stay.
> I decided to put the skills I'd learnt from my studies (English Lit.) to good
> use, and so I started working as an English teacher (yes, very original).
> Contrary to most foreigners living in Poland, I like it here and I like my
job.
> My family has grown in the last few years - my husband and I have a 5 year-
old
> son, Dawid, and a 3 year-old daughter, Dominika. Also unlike most foreigners
> in Poland (at least those I've come across), I bothered to learn the Polish
> language and I've made a lot of Polish friends.
> Do I regret having come here? No. Has my experience been positive? Yes. Do I
> consider Poland my secong home? Almost.
> Hope this will do.

oh come on - that's not the full truth. i'm an expat in poland and my
experience is one of a love-hate relationship. i've had some of the happiest
days of my life here - but at the same time the idiotic system grinds you down.
have you seen the latest on tv? - "przed uzyciem zapoznaj sie z trescia ulotki
lub skontultuj sie z lekarzem lub farmaceutem"!!!! after every pill ad. what a
nation of bureaucrats!!! i guess a few corrupt individuals made a buck or two

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have you seen the latest on tv? - "przed uzyciem zapoznaj sie z trescia ulotki
> lub skontultuj sie z lekarzem lub farmaceutem"!!!! after every pill ad. what
a nation of bureaucrats!!! i guess a few corrupt individuals made a buck or two

I'd be careful before calling the whole nation "bureaucrats". The info added to
all medical ads is required by the EU regulations. All medical ads start or
finish in the same way in Germany, France, Austria, even Slovakia and Czech
Republic.

regards
Natalia

[Gość: englishman]

I'd be careful before calling the whole nation "bureaucrats". The info added to
>
> all medical ads is required by the EU regulations. All medical ads start or
> finish in the same way in Germany, France, Austria, even Slovakia and Czech
> Republic.
>
> regards
> Natalia

well - not in the uk natalia, a land not so corrupt and bureaucratic. here we
read the caution labels on the bottle, in poland they make you listen on tv.

>

[Gość: Natalia]

Go back to UK than

[Gość: nikt]

Encouraged by expat2, I will write something about me, with many mistakes, I
suppose:
Born in pre-war Poland shortly after 1930. My father was born in Eastern
Prussia, he decided to live and work in Poland as a Polish teacher. My mother
was doughter of German farmers in Northern Poland (earlier: the German "Western
Prussia"); she became teacher for the German minority and probably married my
father because of lack of German men ... - She early began to sympathize with
Adolf Hitler.
When World-War II began, the favourite brother of my mother was murdered by
Poles, later on my father was murdered in a Nazi-concentration camp, I never
wrote him a letter. I became a member of the Hitler Youth. 1944/45 flight from
the Red Army to Western Germany. There I became a history teacher.
Very late I started to learn Polish again, often travalled to Poland, neglected
my old mother, who probably wanted me to become a "good German" - in the end she
committed suicide.
Now I disgust the Germans because of their fondness of "law and order" and the
Poles because of their dislike of "law and order". My childhood in pre-war
Poland was absolutely wanderful and I feel obliged to thank all Poles, who
mostly are dead now, very often cruelly killed by Nazi-Germans ... But during
and after the war I met many kindhearted Germans either (besides stubborn old
Nazis!) ...

So what about my future? Well, I hope to die during a sea journey and to be
burried in the high seas ...
Because I´m extremely disgusted by radical nationalism ...

[Gość: mm]

Very FUNNY!

[Gość: zz]

"A joke`s a very serious thing." (English proverb)