Even 3 weeks before I came to Ireland I was not thinking about it, but I had got a mail with a job offer and I decided to go. For the next 2 weeks I was exchanging mails with lady in the headquarters of the company I am working for at present. She is Irish, so all the mails were in English, but at the beginning of last week the mails stopped. I was prepared to go, but the contact was cut off. I was sending mails with some questions and I didn’t get any answer. Finally I got an answer, two days before I left Poland and the mail was in Polish, there were Polish people working in the headquarters, nevertheless I didn’t got any answer for some of my mails I sent to one of the site directors and I didn’t get answers from the people announcing their rooms to rent on daft.ie. A few days later somebody told me that Irish people don’t answer on e-mails usually.
Fortunately I got a room at Michele’s place with wi-fi coverage, so I didn’t worry about place to stay, and the first answers from people having rooms to rent I got about 2 weeks after I came to Ireland. It seems that they didn’t pay much attention to a so important and the major worldwide medium as internet is.
And the day has come. I went to my city airport. 800 thousands people big city, and we have just a one small terminal and just 3 international flights at present – to London, Nottingham and to Dublin. The most popular line in Poland is of course Ryanair with its connections to the places in the Western Europe, where the Polish communities are so huge. Every day every plane departing from Lodz to Dublin or London is full or almost full. Planes flying to Lodz are also almost full, but there is more people leaving Poland than coming back even for holidays. And the year ago we didn’t have any connection from our local airport. The runway has been just made longer, and a year ago I was working on archaeological rescue-survey on place that now is covered by it.
Fathers and mothers were saying goodbyes to their sons and daughters, but actually the older people also leaving Poland now. I flew away to the green mist of unknown.
I’ve was lucky enough to find your blog this week. It is fantastic to read about ireland from a polish persepective. I hope you keep writing. Good luck.
Thanx! I will try to write new post every day. So keep watching!