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Post by Bonobo on Sept 25, 2011 7:45:55 GMT 1
Today, former President Lech Walesa, paid a visit to Wojciech Jaruzelski who has been staying at a hospital for a few days and wished him good health (¿yczyæ komu¶ zdrowia). In the past it was Jaruzelski who put Wa³êsa in a detention center during the communist martial law coup d`etat in 1981. Afterwards, Jaruzelski`s junta tried to do their best to make Wa³êsa sorry for his anticommunist stance. Quite noble of Wa³êsa. Or not? After all, he is a devout Catholic. But inspiring for other politicians.   Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.< Matthew 5:25 >> Agree with thy adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.www.tvn24.pl/-1,1718542,0,1,walesa-odwiedzil-jaruzelskiego-w-szpitalu,wiadomosc.html |
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Post by uncltim on Sept 25, 2011 15:32:46 GMT 1
Perfect.
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Post by jeanne on Sept 25, 2011 16:45:36 GMT 1
Quite noble of Wa³êsa. Or not? Yes, noble and very Christian...if his motives are pure. I will (from the bottom of my Christian heart) give Lech the benefit of the doubt.  |
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Post by jeanne on Sept 25, 2011 20:32:15 GMT 1
p.s. Forgive me, but I haven't done an English lesson in a long time on the forum..."Poles can act nobly and forgive their..." (adverb ;D ;D ;D)
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 25, 2011 21:05:50 GMT 1
p.s. Forgive me, but I haven't done an English lesson in a long time on the forum..."Poles can act nobly and forgive their..." (adverb ;D ;D ;D) I know. I thought about it but I wanted to sound more colloquial. |
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Post by jeanne on Sept 25, 2011 21:22:56 GMT 1
p.s. Forgive me, but I haven't done an English lesson in a long time on the forum..."Poles can act nobly and forgive their..." (adverb ;D ;D ;D) I know. I thought about it but I wanted to sound more colloquial. Well, yes, you did sound more colloquial...but sometimes 'colloquial' grates on this teacher's nerves...sorry...but thanks for correcting it! ;D Now that I think of it, part of being a good English teacher in Poland is helping students to understand and use colloquialisms, while my job is helping native speakers and writers eliminate them and use proper English!!! |
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 27, 2011 20:59:47 GMT 1
Now that I think of it, part of being a good English teacher in Poland is helping students to understand and use colloquialisms, while my job is helping native speakers and writers eliminate them and use proper English!!! OK! ;D ;D ;D I have to teach coloquialisms and slang because my students frequently complain about their inability to understand American or British natives while on foreign trips. Add on:
Walesa wishes ‘get well soon’ to Jaruzelski
25.09.2011 12:10
Lech Walesa, legendary Solidarity leader and Poland’s first democratically elected president, visited former communist leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski in hospital, Saturday.
Walesa promptly uploaded pictures of his well-wishing visit to his blog, writing “[Good] health Mr General”.
General Jaruzelski, Poland’s authoritarian leader who imposed Martial Law in December 1981, was admitted to hospital on 15 September after contracting pneumonia, a side effect of his ongoing chemotherapy treatment to fight lymphangioma.
Meanwhile, head of the Lech Walesa Institute, Piotr Gulczynski told the PAP news agency that it was a “private visit”, adding that Walesa was at the Military Institute of Medicine to visit his son Jaroslaw, who is being treated after a motorcycle crash earlier this month.
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Post by jeanne on Sept 27, 2011 21:18:18 GMT 1
I have to teach coloquialisms and slang because my students frequently complain about their inability to understand American or British natives while on foreign trips. Yes, that did occur to me! (You're such a good teacher!! ;D ;D ;D) |
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Post by uncltim on Sept 28, 2011 3:42:52 GMT 1
Pretty sure its spelled "knowbly" |
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Post by jeanne on Sept 28, 2011 10:05:47 GMT 1
Pretty sure its spelled "knowbly" ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 8, 2012 22:03:06 GMT 1
The story continues... Walesa takes tea with former communist leader
14.07.2012 08:00
Solidarity legend Lech Walesa has made a private visit to the house of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the former communist leader who once tried to crush the famed trade union.
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News of the meeting was revealed by Walesa himself, who uploaded a picture of the visit on his personal blog.
“Once we stood on opposite sides, but now we have a free Poland and I have closed that chapter,” he told Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, when quizzed about the encounter.
“Because of this, it's worth meeting up and talking from time to time,” he said, noting that he has already invited the general back to his home in Gdansk.
General Jaruzelski declared a state of martial law at the peak of the Solidarity surge in December 1981.
Some 10,000 Poles were arrested and a hundred killed during the 20-month long crackdown, with Polish tanks entering the streets on 13 December 1981.
Eight years later, Solidarity activists, led by Walesa, took part in the so-called Round Table Talks with the communist leadership, paving the way for a democratic Poland.
Walesa, who was elected president in 1990, was in Warsaw this week visiting his former friend and presidential aide Mieczyslaw Wachowski.
Recalling an invitation made by General Jaruzelski, he decided to take the general up on his suggestion.
Jaruzuzelski, who turned 89 this month, was diagnosed with lymphoma last year.
In January 2012, a Polish court found that the imposition of martial law in 1981 was illegal. Former Minister of the Interior Czeslaw Kiszczak was given a two year suspended sentence, but Jaruzelski himself was excused from the trial prior to sentencing, on account of his poor health. Former First Secretary of the Party Stanislaw Kania was acquitted. |
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