After my exchange in tenth grade, when I was hardly interested in Polish language or history, I had the first real encounter with the country and people of Poland on a road…

During the Second World War, more than 100,000 Poles found refuge in Iran after being deported to Siberia in 1939 and sentenced to forced labor for years in inhumane conditions. An intercultural…

In a semester abroad in Krakow, you can meet young students from all over the world. Many of them have come to the country from which their ancestors emigrated or fled many…

Their love for their neighbors has not been put through their paces for some friends of Poland for a long time, as it was in those years. But Poland has survived much…

The question of why I studied in Łódź, of all places, I heard more often. Although I could not influence this choice of location, it ultimately turned out to be the jackpot….

Lenka, ale ekstra! This was an expression of my Polish exchange mom which is imprinted in my memory. It stands for the boundless hospitality and cordiality of many Poles and especially my…

Can you translate the word, please? By living in a different country, than the one we were raised in, there is an everyday –sometimes hidden but always there- obstacle, which can cause…

The architecture of a city, or the urban planning, is the soul of the city, the expression, the art, the city itself. One does not have to be Viennese to realize that…

Being an expat myself, every time I meet another foreigner living in Vienna, one single question pops up in my head: why Austria, why Vienna. After numerous answers that I’ve received, I’ll…

It is said that once someone decides to leave his/her own country to live abroad, he/she ends up feeling “stateless”. A stateless person, according to Wikipedia, is someone who is “not considered…

I know everyone has their own preferences, but when it comes to living to a new country, one learns to love or to hate certain things. So, here is my list: What…

Learning a language for free? The last one year, I suffer from a disease that is called “learning German”. Ok, that was a little bit dramatic, but learning a new language –and…

2 years of living in Vienna’s 2nd district. Since day one, I set a foot and moved in Vienna, I’ve been living in second district. Now that I am looking around the city…

After finishing my studies, with all the stress of settling down, finding a job, building a career that it brings, I was introduced to the best alternative; EVS, which means European voluntary…

Actually, I never expected that I will move abroad, and I never expected that it will be German-speaking country even more. I never liked German language, and in my high school I…