{"id":309,"date":"2008-10-22T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=309"},"modified":"2008-10-22T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:48:18","slug":"reporting-from-gdansk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/reporting-from-gdansk\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting From Gda\u0144sk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al from the <a href=\"http:\/\/polishamericangenealogy.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Polish-American Genealogy blog<\/a>, which by the way is a great resource for anyone interested in tracing their Polish roots, tagged me with the 10 Years Ago tag\u2026<br \/>\nI\u2019m not much for blog tags and normally ignore them, but how could I say \u201cno\u201d to a fellow Kashub (\u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/kaszub.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Kaszub<\/a><\/strong>\u201d in Polish)? I couldn\u2019t. Especially since I\u2019ve just arrived in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/gdansk.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Gda\u0144sk<\/a><\/strong>, had my first dinner of \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/schabowy.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">schabowy<\/a><\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/mizeria.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">mizeria<\/a><\/strong>\u201d and I\u2019m feeling great.<\/p>\n<p>I told Al I was going to modify the questions somewhat so you won\u2019t be bored to death when reading about my 5 jobs and 5 favorite places were I used to live.<\/p>\n<p>So here we go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.    Ten years ago I\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;    was young and beautiful and had no interest whatsoever in the Polish language. And especially \u2013 no interest in sharing my Polish knowledge. And look at me now, huh?<br \/>\n&#8211;    was wondering what was happening to Polish soccer. In 1998 the FIFA World Cup was held in France and Poland didn\u2019t even manage to qualify at all. Sadly not much has changed since then. Polish soccer is still pathetic. And the players are ugly, too.<br \/>\n&#8211;    was shaking my head with disbelief when reading about Polish politics. Those were the times of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/aleksander-kwasniewski.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksander Kwa\u015bniewski<\/a><\/strong>. I still can\u2019t decide whether things have gotten better or worse since then, but fortunately, these days I\u2019m not interested in politics anymore.<br \/>\n&#8211;    wanted to know why so few American universities offered Polish classes. I\u2019m not even talking here about Polish as a major, general Slavic Studies would have made me happy, but even those were hard to come by. Or maybe I simply wasn\u2019t looking in the right places.<br \/>\n&#8211;    was wondering why every piece of garbage literature (if you could call it literature) was being translated into Polish and why so few books by Polish authors were translated into English. And I still wonder about it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2. Five things on my to do list for today (actually for tomorrow, too late to do anything today):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; buy a map of <strong>Gda\u0144sk<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; go to St Mary\u2019s Church (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/kosciol-mariacki.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Ko\u015bci\u00f3\u0142 Mariacki<\/a><\/strong>) and see if the tower\u2019s open for climbing<br \/>\n&#8211; stroll around the Old Town and buy bags and bags of souvenirs<br \/>\n&#8211; eat ridiculous amounts of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/ptasie-mleczko.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">ptasie mleczko<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; determine whether <strong>Bary Mleczne<\/strong> still exist (singular \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/bar-mleczny.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Bar Mleczny<\/a><\/strong>, a cafeteria-style joint with super cheap food, mostly vegetarian, mostly yucky. But cheap, so all is forgiven.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3. Five foods I enjoy:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/07\/bigos.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">bigos<\/a><\/strong>, but that goes without saying. I\u2019m a huge fan of <strong>bigos<\/strong>, and I even learned to make it myself.<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/golabki.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">go\u0142\u0105bki<\/a><\/strong> (stuffed cabbage) as long as I don\u2019t have to make them myself. In fact, I\u2019ve never actually made them myself.<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/salatka-z-czerwonych-buracz.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">sa\u0142atka z czerwonych buraczk\u00f3w<\/a><\/strong> (red beet salad) like my grandma used to make.<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/07\/pierogi.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">pierogi<\/a><\/strong>, but only the savory kind. I don\u2019t like those with sweet stuffing. And needless to say, I don\u2019t like to make them myself. Why is making Polish food always so time consuming?<br \/>\n&#8211; Polish style pickles \u2013 which, as my friend says, come in only two varieties: sour and super sour.<\/p>\n<p>4. Five places I\u2019ve lived.<br \/>\nIf you excuse me, this is a boring question, so I\u2019m going to skip it.<\/p>\n<p>5. Five jobs I\u2019ve had.<br \/>\nSince I haven\u2019t had that many jobs in my life, I\u2019m going to skip it, too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6. Six places I want to visit that I haven\u2019t yet visited:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; to be honest, I haven\u2019t been to very many places in Poland besides Warsaw and <strong>Gda\u0144sk<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&#8211; ideally, I\u2019d like to visit all UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Poland. There are quite a few of them: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/torun.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Toru\u0144<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/zamosc.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Zamo\u015b\u0107<\/a><\/strong>,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/07\/bialowieza.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> Bia\u0142owie\u017ca<\/a> National Park<\/strong>. I want to see the baroque cathedral in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/frombork.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Frombork<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/bieszczady.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Bieszczady<\/a><\/strong> Mountains. But most of all, I want to go to <strong>Hel<\/strong>. And if all goes well, I\u2019ll be there this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime. check out this blog with <a href=\"http:\/\/gdanski.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos of <strong>Gda\u0144sk<\/strong><\/a>, the blog is written in Polish, but you don&#8217;t need to understand the language to admire the absolutely gorgeous photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al from the Polish-American Genealogy blog, which by the way is a great resource for anyone interested in tracing their Polish roots, tagged me with the 10 Years Ago tag\u2026 I\u2019m not much for blog tags and normally ignore them, but how could I say \u201cno\u201d to a fellow Kashub (\u201cKaszub\u201d in Polish)? 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