- 144 pages
- English
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About this book
In Classrooms and Barrooms, David J. Jackson recounts his experiences during a semester-long Fulbright Fellowship in Poland where he taught classes at the university level and learned more about Poland and himself than he expected. From the trepidation associated with learning he was assigned to teach in a city considered by most to be an unpleasant wasteland to meeting American and Polish colleagues for the first time, Jackson's worries vanished as he quickly learned to accept the challenges Poland presented. Halfway through his time in Poland he stumbled into a bar populated with an ever-changing cast of eccentric locals who welcomed him into their world. Each visit led him to another revelation about Polish history and culture. Alternating among hilarious, somber, and uplifting, Jackson's experiences in the classrooms and barrooms of Poland aim both to inform and entertain.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: City of Colors
- Chapter 01. Kresowa
- Chapter 02. Choosing Lódz, Heading for Wroclaw
- Chapter 03. Return to Kresowa
- Chapter 04. (Dis)Orientation
- Chapter 05. Friendly Fulbrighters
- Chapter 06. To Work in Lódz
- Chapter 07. Meanwhile, Back at Kresowa
- Chapter 08. Poland for the First Time
- Chapter 09. Names and Pictures
- Chapter 10. Polka, Polka, Polka
- Chapter 11. A Great Day of Teaching
- Chapter 12. Warsaw, London, and Oxfordshire
- Chapter 13. Another Bar
- Chapter 14. A Day on Piotrkowska Street
- Chapter 15. Wigilia
- Chapter 16. My Grandfather’s People
- Chapter 17. Comments
- Chapter 18. Fitting In
- Chapter 19. Christmas and Boxing Day
- Chapter 20. Poland, Slovenia, and Austria
- Chapter 21. Fighting Poland
- Chapter 22. Three Good Classes
- Chapter 23. Zbyszkuuuu . . .
- Chapter 24. Breaking Glass
- Chapter 25. Firsts and Lasts
- Conclusion: Warsaw One More Time
- References
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