Polish Man in New World

Era of  Pawel the "Coffee Manager"  12 Marca 2015  02 Kwietnia 2015   07 Maja 2015 It is time to drop fun and start finishing my thesis. Deadline 27 September 2015.

My recent interview with Christian made me think, made me think a lot about the purpose of the academic life. Christian is currently running his sociological study at Murdoch University about the perception we PhD student hold regarding the future academic career we aim at. You should participate in his research - to learn how click here . You will learn a lot about yourself too. I feel versus I think There is this immense internal battle inside of everyone. Should we rely more on what we feel or should we think more. It is interesting how this battle shapes our life. Depending on whether you are more of thinker or feeler one can guess what course of studies you will choose at the University. Today I have learnt that people who start a sentence from “I feel” tend to end up in art sciences versus “I think” people who go for more reason-based hard-core science. Who are you? I am definitely a type who suppresses feelings because they are so chaotic and unpredictable.  Ev...

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The same is happening in Poland. An unmarried and childless politician has a great chance to become a president. I talk of course about Jarosław Kaczyński. It might be shocking for conservative part of human society but it is a very popular strategy among social animals. Ants and bees for instance produce thousands of sterile individuals. They turn out to be more productive and more efficient since they do not have to care about their own offspring. (refer to lectures of Elliott Sober). Some time ago I was standing there in a White Rabbit gallery in front of enormous photo and wondering what does it mean: It means that Julias all over the world become more visible and more powerful. I fancy that. I wish that next soccer world cup will present only national female teams : )

Is a spirit of such countries Argentina, Brazil and Poland shifting from Catholicism to Soccerism? It may be so, especially after last news on different abuses among the priests. Every Wednesday evening we collect guys from Uni and play it. Last game was exceptionally spiritual. First of all one of our best player Andres is leaving to his home country and that was his last game with us. We may never see him again: Second of all we experienced such team spirit like never before. Communion. We were challenged by a group of self-confident and smiling Spanish looking guys. It was a tough and exciting game and we won : ) The Spanish looking guys lost their good mood : ) Although the fact it all happend in Sydney there was not a one Australian guy playing with us. They seem to be too lazy and too girlie for such an intensive game like soccer. They enjoy more cricket - All what you do there is staying in the field and watching a flying ball. And it seems that the most importan...

The experience of entering the Polish House in Sydney does not differ from entering the Estonian one (Eesti Maja). It smells the same, like someone decided to collect all rusty antiquates from the past exactly here. There were paintings of Estonian landmarks displayed on the walls around. I recognized the national hero Kalevipoeg, Jaani church and other buildings from Tartu and Tallinn too. I could not remember the real explanation for Vastla Day. Before that day I was boasting around that I go for a party to celebrate some kind of less-known Estonian hero called Vastel. Me and Christina were treated with bear, with pea soup, sausages and of course Vastla sweet bread rolls. It was very yummy. In between the meals we were taught that this day is nothing but equivalent of English Ruby Tuesday and therefore strongly connected to Christian tradition. It was introduced into pagan Estonian society during the Swedish occupation. (something like “vastlamen” means in Swedish to fast). But this ...