Poland

Today by the dinner Richard asked me whether I wrote also a blog about Poland. Surely not, Australia made me blogging : ) Let me go against the habits of regular bloggers. I will bring up here some stories not from the present but from the past.

Last year I spent in small country called Estonia. I was employed by Tartu greenhouse: www.grynefee.ee I worked there with two more Polish guys. Rest of the employees (that is around 100) consisted of Russians and Estonians. We worked between two different histories (people from ex-empire and people who used to be enslaved by this empire), between two cultures and between two languages. Poles managed to learn both of them while Russians do not learn Estonian and most of the Estonians do not want to speak Russian even if they know it. I speak a little both of them : ) The main boss of Gryne Fee Eesti made once a comment: "Poles seem to be born to be polyglots".

That is how a geographic location makes a great impact on the culture of one nation. Poland is located in the heart of Europe where West meets East. Once, when I was working for State Agency on Agriculture I met one older man - Pan Zbyszek. He said: "As a country we had a bad luck to be stuck in between two empires. We simply have to speak either German or Russian. At least one language of our eternal foes". Be careful English speaking people! A language might be used also as a tool someone can fight with against you.

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