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Useful Info and Top Tips Publications http://www.theweek.co.uk/front_website/index.html Websites
If you want to keep up to date with what is
happening in the news and if you miss having a
newspaper to read, try the following publications which can be delivered
to your door. You might get the
news a little bit late but at least you will be in the know eventually:
The Week, a digest of British and foreign press; costs
around £65/year
The Weekly Telegraph, the best of the daily & Sunday
Telegraph, £72/year www.weeklytelegraph.com
The Guardian weekly, a digest of The Guardian, Observer
with pieces from the Washington Post and Le Monde. Around £50/year http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/0,12598,,00.html
A reminder of the useful
New
Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw
Free
Contact International Business Voice The British Chamber of
Commerce produces a free bi-monthly English Language magazine. (To subscribe
contact Anna at media@bpcc.org.pl
or phone 654 5971).
A reminder of the various websites about
Warsaw Voice website, www.warsawvoice.pl
Address listings only, What’s Up in Warsaw www.whatsup.pl
Official Polish Government site, www.poland.gov.pl
www.poland.pl
in English and www.polska.pl in
Polish, port for all internet information about
Cultural events in
Official website of
General tourist information at http://www.explore-warsaw.com
and http://www.warsawtour.pl and http://www.explore-warsaw.com
http://www.warszawaonline.pl/
events, restaurants - Polish only


A Bit of Culture
5-8th October,
14 October, Renowned Helikon Opera Theatre from
18 Oct Flamenco Jazz night, Carmen & Compania
Flamenco, tickets Sala Kongresowa & Empik
19-23 October, 19:00
musical ‘
See Dido in
24 Oct Festival of Ancient Music at Royal Castle,
inauguration concert then 31st & 7, 14, 21 & 28 Nov. Tickets
(25PLN) from Royal Castle and ZASP, l. Jerozolimskie 25. tel. 65 72 326.
Until
10 December Exhibition bringing together European paintings under the theme of
‘Transalpinium’ meaning ‘crossing
the Alps’, artists travelling in both directions between northern Europe and
Italy. Inlcudes Boticelli, Titian, van
Eyck. National Musuem, al Jerozolimskie,
3 tel : (22) 621 10 31, www.mnw.art.pl
Till 31 Oct Wojciech Siudmak, Polish ‘fantastic
realism’ artist based in
At the National Opera
in October, children’s opera Mister
Marimba (3 & 24 Oct, 4pm); Salome
(9th); Agrippina (14th);
Tosca (15th & 17th);
Madame Butterfly (21st & 23rd); Turandot (24th
& 26th); La
Traviata (27th) and The
Haunted Manor (29th). As
well as ballets: Zorba the Greek (3rd);
Polish Corner
Each month we would
like to add a Polish element to the Newsletter whether it is some background
about one of the public holidays (as here) or customs or a favourite Polish
recipe or tale. Any ideas for next
month?
All
Saints’ Day
The 1st
Nov, All Saints’ Day (Wszystkich Świętych) has been
designated by the Roman Catholic Church as the day to pray for the Saints of
the church and 2nd Nov All Soul’s Day Dzień Zaduszny
or Zaduszki (All Souls’ Day) is a day of prayer for all who have died.
In Poland, Dzień
zaduszny constitutes one of the most important holidays and is
commemorated by praying for and remembering deceased family and friends,
visiting graves, and placing flowers (usually chrysanthemums) and candles
(called znicze) on grave sites and memorials. Religious Poles mark
this day by going to church and bringing wypominki¸ a list of deceased
family members and friends to be read from the altar during mass.
Beginning on November
1st and throughout the following week, cemeteries are filled with people,
flowers, and thousands of znicze. These special candles can burn
anywhere from 24 hours to a week, depending on their size. At night, during the
week following All Saints’ Day, they give the cemeteries of
A state holiday
(and therefore a day off from work and school), November 1st has become the
most travelled day in
source: E. Wampuszyc http://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/dept/WebBasedLanguage/Polish/Culture/AllSaintsDay/ ■
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my contact no. is given below. Thanks
& regards, Somi Bhatnagar +48 693 767620 English
native speakers Lingua Nova the language school with
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in the new branch in Piaseczno.
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1. It would be perfect if this person would have a background in
the field of teaching - if not we will provide him a training of the
methodology of teaching of foreign languages.
2. Preferred people with the university degree.
3. Native Speakers would lead groups of 4-8 students on the upper
intermediate and advanced level and also have individual lessons with the
students. To groups on the pre intermediate and intermediate level they
would only provide selected lessons (10-15 hours by group, fixed date, to
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if you can help. The ever popular Hash
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this month’s Newsletter. Please remember that this is your Newsletter. Send us anything that you think might be of interest to other mums, particularly if you are a newcomer. Your comments are always welcome. Your thoughts and ideas should be sent by email either to one or both of us - Melissa (andytov@msn.com) or Sarah (brett@globster.pl).
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