for survival.
Also, Poland hasn't been communist since 1989. And Russia since 1991 or so?
The only communist countries in the world now are I think China, Cuba, Laos,
North Korea, Vietnam.
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me lots of
sticky candy with it.
When I was a kid, my mom said I'm a freak because I won't drink
tea... Everyone else in my family does.
I like water, milk, hot chocolate, and random soft drinks.
Ah, and Thai ice tea, but I don't think that counts.
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me an
example (granted, texting is almost allien to him too, since he's 28
g), it left me totally baffled. All I'd want to learn how to text is:
duh?
What is texting?
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Cdn. floral bobbins
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inflicting pain on herself!
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It really is continuously amazing how well we fit together, Tamara.
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Life is good.
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There is some German, too, unsurprisingly. And I'm sure there are lots of
influences from other Slavic languages, but these are hard to pick out.
Ah, and Italian, too, from when one of our kings married an Italian woman and
she introduced things like cauliflower ;-)
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On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:01, Weronika Patena wrote:
This is the first thing I've ever heard that I could seriously apply
the
adjective mind-boggling to...
Really scary, too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4225013.stm
, we did know our history (and its bizarre turns), while
Americans don't seem to care about past lessons... :(
Their history doesn't seem to be nearly as painful, so it's probably harder
to remember.
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loschen, indem Sie seine Stuckzahl auf 0 setzen und dann den
Aktualisierungsbutton unten anklicken.
What does that mean??
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a good method of transfering small amounts of
money between countries is - maybe PayPal?).
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I did... g
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... And the girl had to make the shirts out of nettles
at night at a graveyard. And there were additional gruesome effects, I think,
but I don't remember. The fact that those used to be stories for children tells
you something about how life must have been then...
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I never minded feeling like a child (I was the I never want to grow up
to church G.
A subtle reminder that the same star
announced the gift to mankind of the baby Jesus (if one's beliefs go
that way). Nevertheless, the gifts were dropped off under the tree, not
under a stable trough... :)
Is that a custom anywhere??
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that,
and then asked me to marry him, he sure wouldn't get a yes.
He has been lay-bying the ring
for 6 months. I can't wait to see it.
What's lay-bying?
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in a bit each week until there was enough
money on the card to pay for a pair of shoes or whatever the shop sold.
I am Older 'n Dirt!!
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I lived in Poland up to the end of high school. We did have citizenship education,
but nobody took it seriously - that was the class we used to play games under the
table or do homework for other classes. It was pretty boring, too.
I'm not sure how true that really is, but it seems to me
It is illegal not to vote in Australian elections, if your name is on the
electoral role and is not crossed off at the election then you get fined.
Someone tried to publicise some way of making a stand against the compulsory
voting without the possibility of getting fined - they got fined for
I know that my kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day at school -
they're going into 3rd grade and 1st grade. They both had to learn the
Pledge in preschool, to recite at their Pre-K graduation. I'm not sure
that it makes you a better citizen, but it does make you aware of your
Where do they proprose to wash? Presumably in public toilets - good luck to
them - I wouldn't. They'll need good street maps to show the location of
them. In Poole (and I think this is a case in a lot of towns), public
toilets have been closed because of the filthy state they get in, drug
Well, she'll have a brother with her most of the time. And I'm not sure
how dangerous sleeping in random places really is - I've done quite a lot in
Warsaw, which is not supposed to be a very safe city, and I've never had
any trouble. Plus, the stories are so much better g
Weronika
On Mon, Jun
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:59:02PM +1000, Helene Gannac wrote:
Weronika wrote:
I'm not sure how Tamara's swivel windows work, but the ones we have at
home in Poland can open normally (i.e. like doors), and if you twist the
handle up they'll open at the top and stay attached at the bottom, but
Louise Hume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
only the male mosquitoes sing, to attract the females.
So... if you hear a mosquito singing, it is a male and will not bite.
I have read this, too, but apparently the mosquitoes in Michigan haven't.
I don't know if male and female mosquitoes have a
Hmm. I don't have a flyswatter, but I use paper or such for flies, or
just open the window and try to get them to leave. I deal with
mosquitoes the same way you do. Especially effective when they're
trying to get at you in bed at night and you don't want to get up and
turn the light on. I'm
All I can remember is that a cat always falls on 4 legs, ie lands
safely. In
extensio, that would mean that a cat never dies at all g
and a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down.
So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back,
and drop the cat from a
Hmm. Narwhal? My spelling is probably wrong, but I'm pretty sure it
starts with an N.
Weronika
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:39:06AM +0100, Jean Nathan wrote:
I didn't get any further than thinking of a letter - I just couldn't think
of an animal that began with the letter N.
I could only
Weronika,
The culture confuses ME, and I was born and raised here by very
non-international parents!
I'm not sure whether I should be happy that my problem isn't abnormal,
or unhappy because that means it'll probably never go away... g
Except for The Lord of the Rings and Harry
Potter,
If anyone wants to see the house that we are going to live in for the next
phase of our lives, you can go to : http://oruvilla.ee/eng/index.html
DH is wearing a blue shirt in the 3rd photo on the History page. A few
things
that appeal to us about living in Estonia, are the simpler lifestyle,
Hi, everyone!
A friend of mine at Caltech is planning to go to Europe over the summer,
but doesn't know where she should go and where she can afford going.
Since you live all over the world and probably even go to Europe for
lace events, I thought you might know.
So she's planning to travel
Everybody gets confused over whether 12:00 is ante meridian or post
meridian.
That's a relief - it's not just me being a confused foreigner... g
Sensible people say that the time one minute after 11:59 AM is twelve
noon, and the time one minute after 11:59 PM is twelve midnight.
Sounds
Tamara, obviously, you don't have many mosquitoes or flies in your part
of the country!! You can't put mosquito screens up with swivel windows. I
know the ones you mean, my parents have them in Provence, and I love
them, but if I had them in Melbourne, we'd be invaded by flies during the
Ouch. Ah well, I'm sure I'll live, and Alaska is just the greatest
place on Earth anyway (and that has absolutely nothing to do with the
fact that it's where my boyfriend comes from g).
Weronika
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:15:12PM +0200, dominique wrote:
Hi weronika`
i'm ready to bet there
(Also, my Matlab program just returned out of
memory, arrgh)
Hi, Weronika -
Programming's like hitting your head on a brick wall - lovely when it
stops! G
g. Actually programming isn't that bad, I just wish I had someone to
debug it for me! Plus, I spent most of last summer
In Michigan (very recently wet, rainy Michigan), if you didn't have window
screens, you'd be eaten alive at night by mosquitoes. Even with the
screens, sometimes the mosquito-whining from outside the screens drives me
crazy, and if one of the little devils has sneaked into the house, into the
Hi everyone!
I'm back from visiting my boyfriend for the long weekend, and I think
I'll sit down and answer all of my accumulated Arachne email now.
It's a great thing to do while waiting for my Matlab program to finish
running and tell me what silly programming error I've made this time...
Weronika, the problem of getting lost in conversation doesn't only occur when
moving to a country with a different language!
I'm sure it doesn't. I'm fine with most of the language, it's just the
culture that confuses me. Especially when people my age start talking
about music and movies
And on the matter of cultural differences... Quite apart from the fact
that an American window is still not a proper window to me (the
sash-horror g),
What's wrong with the windows? There's plenty wrong with the windows
around where I live, but I didn't know it was a common American thing
And the arrangement of dates? Don't even get me started...Where's the
logic of having month, day, year sequence???
Only the U.S. does that, the rest of us do day, month, year.
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the
custom (along with many others).
Not
1.Your co-worker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.
Ah yes. The tongue piercings just keep surprising me.
2.You take a bus and you are shocked at two people carrying on a
conversation in English.
Yep. And I don't have a car...
4.You can't remember.is pot
I promise -- cross my heart -- never to do this again,
Ah yes. Please complain to me freely if I start writing about something
uninteresting or otherwise unsuitable. I am, according to my friends,
clueless g.
In fact, I could just send this whole email privately to Tamara, but
since I
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the
custom (along with many others).
I've never heard the month/day/year version before coming to the US, so
no.
Sometime after I left, the month began to
I spent a summer in Israel (mostly Haifa) a few years ago, and there was
a big bomb scare - it was an organized scientific workshop sort of
thing, and for the last week they didn't let us off campus at all! I
got the habit of crossing the street whenever I see anything without an
obvious owner.
!
This is really horrible! I always thought this sort of thing was over
earlier than the 60's... Tamara, was it like this in Poland too?
Nope, and I doubt it had been like this in Poland even in 1860's... :)
I thought so. Good...
And the post WWII communist rule only strengthened
!
This is really horrible! I always thought this sort of thing was over
earlier than the 60's... Tamara, was it like this in Poland too?
Weronika
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:23:46AM +1000, David Collyer wrote:
GOOD GRIEF !
'Lay back and think of England'
This is an actual extract
That is really scary...
Although, when I think of it, it might be the result of the law that
where political parties get their money from must be public (I think
there's a law like that, although I'm not sure, maybe I'm getting my
countries confused again g). In which case it seems like pretty
Hi,
Last Saturday (i.e. the one before yesterday - I'm never sure what
last and next mean in English) I went to the Freeway Lace Guild
Meeting. I had lots of fun - thanks for everyone who was there and is
on arachne! I started a bookmark, and spent exactly all of my money on
a new pillow, tools
That's very interesting. Even though it doesn't use spaces, Japanese
does
have a pretty clear concept of a word - or maybe they just made it up
to
teach to foreigners ;-)
Don't know about that... But I do remember that my students (I taught
ESL to some Japanese girls, for a year,
Hi!
One question was about the history of punctuation and
she said it came from musical notation and was first used in
Greek plays. They had marks to tell the actor when to take a
deep breath before a long speech (or a medium or small
breath).
Interesting. I never wondered about
of all evil'
I don't know, I always heard the version without love.
Weronika Patena (a student at Cal Tech) wrote:
Not refutable, other than the absolute value comment someone already
added on the same page. Which, by the way, means that either girls =
evil or girls = -evil, so it's
Actually in math and is times and or is plus.
In my school days (40+ yrs ago), and was +, times was x, and or,
being very indefinite, belonged not to mathemathics, but to philosophy
(and to history, and to daily budgeting g)
Ah, right, I didn't go to school in the US, so I missed this
Not refutable, other than the absolute value comment someone already
added on the same page. Which, by the way, means that either girls =
evil or girls = -evil, so it's not that bad g
Weronika
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:30:25AM -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Math's not my strong point, so I'm
Hi!
I just had the greatest conversation with my roommate. She finally got
curious enough about what I was doing to come and ask, so I told her I
was making lace. And she said: Ah, so that's how you make lace!
We've all heard this one, I'm sure. But then she said: I always
thought you just
When I was a kid in Poland, we didn't have TV for a long time, and even
now only 3 channels, so I never watched much - read insane lots of books
instead (I had to hide from my mom because it was bad for my eyes). I
really hope my children will read... Actually I probably won't even
want a TV in
More beginner's questions: what are Secret Pals?
Weronika
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Shirlee Hill wrote:
Debbie Mouzon was my Secret Pal!
Thank you, Debbie, for being such a great pal! Looks like we have quite a few
things in common other than lacing. I, too, am 50 years
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