Archive for 'Culture'
Facebook changes… Posted by Kasia on Sep 22, 2011
Hello everyone! Today I wanted to talk a little bit about Facebook and recent changes on it. As many of you know, Facebook has been changing a lot of different things lately, without letting everyone know about it before hand. Some of us do not really care about them, some of us really hate it…
Golf in Poland Posted by Kasia on Sep 21, 2011
Golf has been played in Poland for longer than you might imagine. In the early part of the last century, before the Second World War, there were a couple of 9-hole courses, though these were mainly the preserve of the aristocracy or the army. It wasn’t until 1992, following the end of the communist era…
Remembering September 1939… Posted by Kasia on Sep 19, 2011
Just as August will always be remembered as “Polish August” or the month of the Warsaw Uprising, as well as the month when Solidarity was born, the month of September will be associated sadly with the beginning of World War II in Poland. Some may say that since it is more than 70 years after…
Bogusha’s Polish Restaurant & Deli Posted by Kasia on Sep 15, 2011
I live in New Hampshire, but unfortunately there are no Polish restaurants or Polish grocery stores close by. So I was really excited when on my day trip to Portland, ME I discovered this little Polish deli and restaurant. The owner – very nice Polish lady – was really friendly. She spoke to my husband…
Polska?Tak! Posted by Kasia on Sep 14, 2011
I was searching you tube videos and here is what I found: Russel Crowe, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford and John Cleese are just some of the stars featuring in a new promotional film made by Poland’s Foreign Ministry. The twelve-minute promo features Morgan Freeman reminiscing about a ravishing Cracovian restaurant and Robert Redford paying tribute…
Janusz Morgenstein passed away. Posted by Kasia on Sep 12, 2011
An outstanding Polish movie director Janusz Morgenstern died on September 6th. He was 89 years old.He was a head of Movies’ Studio Perspective and the graduate of the Film School in Łódź. One of Andrzej Wajda’s closest associates, they worked together during directing the movie “Kanał”(“Canal” 1956). Morgenstern was also the second director of Wajda’s movie”Popiół…
Barcelona opens football school in Poland Posted by Kasia on Sep 9, 2011
Barcelona has opened a football school (szkoła piłki nożnej) in Poland to help develop talented young players (utalentowanych młodych graczy) from the country. Program director Xevi Marce and former defender Julio Alberto Moreno announced the opening of the Warsaw school at a news conference on Thursday, in the presence of around a dozen recruited boys, who…