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From Burnout to Breakthrough, Part 2: A Year of Writing
It has been a year since I started this blog. Last February, I made a promise to myself: write for a year, and if the ideas were still there, keep going. At that time, I was on a career break, unemployed, and struggling with burnout. I was uncertain about my future, recovering from months of…
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Seven years in Poland: how people make new cities feel like home
What makes a city feel like home? Initially, I wanted to write a story about Warsaw, to share the city through my own perspective. And I will – spoiler alert – but not this time. Instead, I want to reflect on something bigger. In my opinion, Warsaw is a great place to live, even with…
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Seven years of living in Poland: Part I
This November marks seven years since I moved abroad to Poland for work. I landed the night before my twenty-sixth birthday (always making somewhat of a big entrance). At the time, I knew only a few facts I remembered from my history and political science classes, and not a single word of Polish. Originally, the…