Polish Man in New World

I do not comprehend the things. It is so hard to grasp this all mentally. 1. Ecology Discussing Table made me feel that phylogenetic biology is like walking across the labyrinth with too many exits : ) which lead to another labyrinths. 2. Minister Of Environment sits proudly in the hybrid car powered by power point. You simply have to plug it in. No one says that energy which is transferred through grid is produced by coal burning stations. The energy use efficiency of grid and electrical engine is never 100%. Greenhouse gas production is shifted away from the car to the country side :)))) 3. Lecture on modelling was kind of hard nut to crack for a beginner like me. We try to predict the the way the population of individual plants will grow. Very intelligent approach made by very intelligent people. Sometimes I wish someone proves chaos to be a driving force in a nature :))) 4. And the look of this girl from behind the arms of young man. A Poster on the train station in Chatswood. Mini...

I don't write anymore as many posts as I used to. My life got fully routinized. Monday and Tuesaday I take train to Macquarie University, Wednesday till Friday I take train to the one of the Nature Reserve I am assigned to by my second employer - Sydney Bush Regeneration Company. Even the book I read during my rides seems to be the same one since I started to work: It is about one older, fully routinzed guy from Bern in Switzerland who out of all sudden decides to change his everyday (rail)way. I am close to finish this book finally : ) - only around 200 pages to go. What makes us run like robots according to detailed daily schedule? Are we hypnotized so much by rising numbers on our account? Or it is a trade-off of so called secure life? Thanks God we have weekends. Thanks God we have death and art which shake us up : ) Thrill me, Kill me: U2:

Herald has awarded young novelists. I like one who made me think about my "polishness". His name is Nam Le. He was raised in Melbourne after fleeing Vietnam in a refugee boat. He writes: "We can't choose our parenting, ethnicity, where we are born or the circumstances of where we grow up, and yet when we are growing up it is often those things that we cling to most fiercely in trying to define who we are". BUT... There is some margin on which we can try to choose our identity. If to calculate what is my nationality according to time i spent on foreign territory so far I am in 1,7% American, 1,7% Swiss, 1,9% Australian, 3.4% Estonian and rest of me is Polish :) I try never to neglect none of my host-countries. They were/are my home. And I am full of gratitude they give me a shelter and job. I agree with James Michener what is he saying about Polish in "Poland" - we are born with sword in one hand and with brick in other hand. Straight after war we had...

Sydney is becoming a city of cyclists. I read about it almost in every daily newspaper. I love it and I give all my support to that. Herald writes: "number of trips in the city each day head toward 200000". Cycling is not only a great way of spending free time on weekend it is also a way thousands of people travel to work every day! Some tips to encourage bikers in Australia and turn down angry drivers (from: Sydney Morning Herald, April 28, 2009) : 1.We bikers we are entitled to use a whole lane on every road 2. We bikers we are allowed to overtake on the left of cars 3. We bikers we are allowed to ride abreast. Sydney is going my way : ) and on 5th of June I am going ot check out City of Sydney's World Environment Day cycling breakfast: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/WhatsOn/html/custom/2234-event-details.asp?EventID=71150

= missing/craving. Today I won't write a lot because I am still ill and in addition I went through stressful and very long IELTS test. Let us listen together a guy who created a band in Estonia called Sun and this song used to accompany me almost everyday thanks to "SkyPlus" radio playing loudly in my ex-workplace in "Green Fairy" Greenhouse in Tartu: Refrain goes like this: Igatsus pole süüdi Do not blame craving Igatsus teeb head Craving does good Igatsus annab teada Craving lets you know Armastus meist inimesed teeb Love is what makes humans out of us I dont have to miss my Estonia anymore. I followed my Estonia to Australia : )

This Estonian music band of very beautiful girls was employed by Switzerland in Eurovision song contest in 2005. They are still very popular. Let me present you a song called “Cool vibes”: Today I felt sick. I try to fight with cold by any means. In between I have almost finished a book of David Suzuki entitled “Tree a biography” (cited below, p.89, 2004). It is very unique story which combines very interesting parts from human history and philosophy with scientific facts on life of the Douglas fir. It is amazing that very recently we connected flowers with sex. And it is all thanks to our curiosity. Forest is full of female egg cells waiting for male sperm cells (pollen) flying with wind or with insects. The plants which decided to switch to sexual reproduction turned out to be more adaptive to the constantly changing conditions. It is all about diversity. The genes are shuffled between the organisms like playing cards. The higher number of cards the higher possibility to become heal...

My employer is an easy going man. Very flexible working hours let me take a week-off for short holiday inj Gold Coast. Christina is already there : ) taking part in a scientific course on statistics. I am not very much familiar with this part of mathmatics but I decided that I will come and give her some support : ) And the moment of truth is soon to come. I challenge all the Australian Drivers on Sunday morning. First I hitchhike to Port Macquarie (BIG Thanks Kate for contact to your Brother!) and very next day i hit the road toward GC. And I heard already the story of this road psycho several times. I will share my adventures with you if I stay alive :P So I disapear for one week. Hitchhiking in Eastern Europe is a normal way of travelling. It is called "autostop" and we even have joyful song about it : ) Jedziemy autostopem, jedziemy autostopem. We go by autostop, we go... W ten sposób możesz bracie przejechać Europę. In this way you may visit whole Europe Gdzie szosy b...

I wonder if any of You tried to find a explanation for the name of "our" State? : ) If to follow what Wikipedia says James Cook was the man who gave us a name. In the journal covering his survey of the eastern coast of the Australian continent, Cook first named the east coast of Australia "New Wales", which he later corrected in his journal to "New South Wales". I wonder what was his connection to Wales in UK? As I see it is unclear. Maybe he wanted to commemorate his spoiled-by-voyages affection to Lady from Wales : ) And I wonder whether You tried to guess why I decided to name my blog this way ("Polishman in New Wales) :). I heard about Cook just recently. But I felt like an alien from the very beginning just like Enlglishman in New York : ) But story of name for New York is well-known. This province was named for James, Duke of York, brother to Charles II of England in 1664. He never has visited this land, though. I'm an alien I'm a legal...

Total surprise. Christina came back home one day before scheduled time :))))) after 6 weeks of fieldwork in Victoria State. I think I will stop blogging for some time. Let me leave You with one more excellent song from my country. It starts like this: Niech słowa pięści zamienią w szum wody (Let the words turn fists into water rustle) Niech przyjdą noce szalonej miłości (Let the nights of crazy love come) Niech to co wzięte zostanie oddane (Let the stolen things be given back) Niech to co inne zostanie pokochane (let all what is strange be loved again) Niech miłość płonie w świetlistej koronie (let the love burn in light crown) And the refrain goes like this: Aborygen, Aborygen ( Aborigine, Aborigine) Niech tańczy na niebie (Let him dance in the skies) Aborygen, Aborygen Wolny jak ptak (Free like a bird) Aborygen, Aborygen Niech tańczy na niebie (Let him dance in the skies) Niech tańczy na niebie

It seems that it was a thorny day. I ve read today and before today that The Flower Growers Group of NSW lost a lot of money because of controversial competition of flower importers. Rose come from countries of dictatorship like Ecuador, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. In many of these countries women and children as young as nice work long hours in sealed glasshouses contaminated with potentially fatal doses of DDT as they harvest the most chemical intensive crops on the planet.(The Sydney Morning Herald(14-15.02.09)) Let me reduce the contamination of this day a by presenting one, very beautifull song. It won second place in Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 that is at the times when this event was considered more serious than today : ) The lyrics are .... like this: Świat mój tak zwyczajny My world so usuall Pod niebem biało-czarnym Under the white-black skies Ludzie są wycięci z szarych stron People are cut off from the grey pages Ze środka ksiąg From the middle of the books Piękni są z roman...

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 dis...