Ian in Poland

This Tumblr is about my experience living in Poland for a year as an exchange student

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How were you able to decide on your country? I have to submit all the paperwork by tomorrow and I can't figure out where my first choices are! I can't decide between Denmark, Spain, and Italy. What made you want to go to Poland?

I'd do Spain, Italy then Denmark 😄 there should be a form where you write your choices

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Do you have to come back home from Poland now?! :(

I did 😭😭😭

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Zekreet and Saudi Arabian boarder

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#RichardSerra #black #desert #qatar #sculture

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Well...

I have been removed from the Rotary program. On the bright side- I've been in Qatar and I will be posting pictures of my time here 😁

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#Theweddingcrashers #thuglife #park #hostsister #poland #usa #exchangestudent

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My #rotary #blazer needs more #pins #poland #japan #taiwan #brazil #mexico #canada #australia #colombia #usa #exchangestudent

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Update: Where I've Been

I just spent Wednesday through Friday in Gdańsk and Sopot. The Baltic Sea was really pretty and I really liked Gdańsk. While there, we went to see my host cousin have his ceremony on beginning the army. And the last day in Gdańsk we went to a museum which talked about Poland's history with the work force and about polish independence. Now I'm back in Lublin, and will be starting my regular retain again. Tomorrow I'm going with Maeve, Ula and her sister to see a concert which I am excited about. More pictures to come.

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Sopot

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Gdańsk

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Hi, where are you from? :)

I'm from USA, Pennsylvania 😄

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Hi, I am hoping on going abroad next year but my grades are a little bit less than stellar will that effect my chances on getting accepted too much or will I be fine P.s. I will be going with the rotary club

Hi! Grades do matter with rotary I believe. Then again, it does depend on your rotary club. My worst grade on the report card I turned in was a C (in Spanish) I had mainly B's and a few A's. I think that the interviews are more important than the grades though! If you find a rotary club to sponsor you and you pass their interview process, then I think the district interview shouldn't be a problem 😄

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Hi, I'm thinking about becoming an exchange student. But I'm currently in the 10th grade and taking 2 AP classes. So how would the whole credit stuff work?

I am doing my 11th grade year abroad. In USA I go to a private school and my credits should be able to transfer back without a problem. I’m most liking going to be doing a pass/fail system here. I was told that this year would count towards graduation but this years scores will be on a separate paper from my transcript. So for me I just need to pass the classes and everything should be ok and I should be able to graduate with the rest of my class in USA on time. I hope this helps!

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I Have Survived A Month

I officially have been in Poland for a month. I have started school and and just finishing my second week. I was originally but in IB classes but I thought it would be easier to learn Polish if I switched to Polish classes, so I did. It has been 2 weeks and my Polish hasn't improved at all and I have not been doing much in class. Next week I'll be switching to IB classes which I'm excited about. Because you can only do NOTHING for so long before it gets too boring 😜. Making friends is a lot harder here than I was expecting. It maybe because I am in a small private school but it might just be how it is here. Very slowly I am starting to make friends. SPANISH is my favorite class so far while being in all Polish classes because I finally know what is going on! I'll be taking Spanish also while in IB. So if I'm not fluent in Polish when I get back, I sure hope I'm fluent in Spanish 😂

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Malbork Castle