What is Poland like?
This question makes me feel uncomfortable, because I don't know how to answer it properly : ) It happened again few days ago while working together with English girl on olives. The easiest way out is always to compare:
- English streets are much broader, the cars are on average bigger and drivers are usually more polite : ) Polish drivers wont let you cross the street on zebra so willingly. They are always in hurry, exceeding area speed limits constantly. We have very few lines of highways. Most of the roads are two ways roads with extra narrow lanes on both sides for hitchhikers : ) - it is one of the most hitchhikable country in Europe.
- Kerbs. It is so easy to make it smoothly but not in Poland. Whether you push the baby carriage or ride a bike you hit against a kerb again and again : )
I tried to find some video promoting my city to foreigners but all of them were sort of depressing : ) I think that's what is East about. Despite of suffering in harsh conditions, being disappointed and heart-broken you still try to find the way to enjoy your life. This song expresses it well : )
The story takes place at local country side party. A man from the city asks one girl to dance. She hopes for great love while he is just using her for fun. On next party he even doesn't look at her, he asks another girl called Kryśka to dance. All disappointed and frustrated, she goes to look for another guy who would make her new shirt wrinkly : ) This song is played on every Polish Wedding party and I like to dance to that song very much : )
Refrain goes like this:
Czerwone korale, czerwone niczym wino
(Red necklace, red like wine)
Korale z polnej jarzębiny
(Necklace made of wild rowan berries)
I łzy dziewczyny i wielkie łzy
(And the tears of the girl and huge tears).
- English streets are much broader, the cars are on average bigger and drivers are usually more polite : ) Polish drivers wont let you cross the street on zebra so willingly. They are always in hurry, exceeding area speed limits constantly. We have very few lines of highways. Most of the roads are two ways roads with extra narrow lanes on both sides for hitchhikers : ) - it is one of the most hitchhikable country in Europe.
- Kerbs. It is so easy to make it smoothly but not in Poland. Whether you push the baby carriage or ride a bike you hit against a kerb again and again : )
I tried to find some video promoting my city to foreigners but all of them were sort of depressing : ) I think that's what is East about. Despite of suffering in harsh conditions, being disappointed and heart-broken you still try to find the way to enjoy your life. This song expresses it well : )
The story takes place at local country side party. A man from the city asks one girl to dance. She hopes for great love while he is just using her for fun. On next party he even doesn't look at her, he asks another girl called Kryśka to dance. All disappointed and frustrated, she goes to look for another guy who would make her new shirt wrinkly : ) This song is played on every Polish Wedding party and I like to dance to that song very much : )
Refrain goes like this:
Czerwone korale, czerwone niczym wino
(Red necklace, red like wine)
Korale z polnej jarzębiny
(Necklace made of wild rowan berries)
I łzy dziewczyny i wielkie łzy
(And the tears of the girl and huge tears).
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