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There are people living in conditions worse than, say, favelas in Brazil, with walls strengthened by fruit crates
I wonder if you mean by any chance ogródki działkowe? These are areas with small gardens and little sheds, people doesn't live there. They are just recreational areas.
middle-aged gentleman with a walrus mustache answered to Mirek’s question about the museum thusly: “Aeeeeyyyeeeeh”. At first I thought that was Polish for “No, thank you”, but later on I learned that, though very common it in fact meant “go away, you annoying little person” in the universal language of grunts.
Or maybe just "I don't know". If people say eeeeeeeee, yyyyyyyyy it's like American ammmmmmmmm, a sound which people make when they think :) Aaaaaaa on the other hand means uh-huh!
Most of the Poles don’t even understand English – a necessity in the modern world.
Most older Poles don't understand English that's right. Younger Poles are better at this point but not necessarily can hold a conversation in English.
Mirek explained to me that in Communist times the store did not depend on the customer as the source of income – they received wares each month from the supplier, and they’d sell regardless of service. But, and that was not the first nor the last time I cried, exasperated – that was thirty years ago! I truly can’t understand how the phantom of Stalin can still force the Polish salesman to stare dumb and said “do it yourself”.
IMO the real reason is that those tellers earn usually little money.
rainy and stormy Polish summer.
That's right, the summer this year was exceptionally awful. Hopely in general summers in Poland are slightly better.
Regards to you, and I hope if you ever was to visit Poland again your impression would be much better :)
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