Family ties and sending money home

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said about

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family tradition you said that your

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friend sends sends money over back to

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her family does yeah is that you think

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that's a typical thing family from what

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she was saying you know she really looks

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out for her family they come over they

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bring the children um and then whenever

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they go home she sends them back with

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stuff and she's always looking out for a

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family all the time isn't she yes has

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that come out of the hardship out of the

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Communist era uh out out of an era which

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was so um depressing that they've come

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out and they've had to really work hard

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to develop their own State personality

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I've worked with somebody who was from

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Poland okay um who was one of our

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Nursery nurses oh yeah okay very lovely

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lady yeah made very good very good at

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cooking I know a bit about the food oh

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yeah yeah so like quite the stews aren't

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they like meat stews uh

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so were you brought up with any polish

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Traditions or all of them really yes my

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first language was polish I only learned

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English when I went to school we've

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never been to never been there no

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um no I don't know an awful lot about

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their culture I know there's some

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Festival where they all wear beautiful

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flowers in their hair but I don't even

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know what festival