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There's An Egg in my Soup - and other adventures of an Irishman in Poland - cover

There's An Egg in my Soup - and other adventures of an Irishman in Poland

Tom Galvin

Publisher: The O'Brien Press

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Five years in the Polish wilderness.
Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly bizarre soup – this is Poland in the mid-1990s, where Tom Galvin innocently went as a trainee teacher.
Without a word of Polish, he is plunged into a strange and rapidly changing culture, as the country shakes off its troubled and complex past and faces the challenges of being a part of modern Europe.
Tom spent five years dealing with long and freezing winters, lack of good food, loneliness and hardship, as he discovered the misery as well as the joy of Polish life. He returned in 2007, to find surprising changes to the country that had been his home for the first years of his working life.
An interesting and amusing account of living and working abroad, which documents a unique period of Polish history.
Available since: 09/14/2012.
Print length: 272 pages.

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