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[dynow]

Anybody know anything about the small town of Brodnica?

I'm seriously considering taking a job there, wondering if anybody has either taught there or traveled through?

[redsoxfan]

I assume you've already gone to http://www.brodnica.pl/ramka.html , the official webpage of Brodnica. The town looks cute enough. It's not too far from Torun and Bydgoszcz. A little less than 30,000 people living there.

The problem with towns without a university is that all the intelligent young people leave to go to school somewhere else. So you're left with something less than the cream of the crop. You won't find many people who speak English worth a damn. Brodnica is an industrial town; if you like hanging out with the Polish working class and speaking Polish, you'll have a blast.

Go to Google and do an "image" search. Are you in Poland? I'd just take a train there. Maybe you'd enjoy yourself for a semester in such a small town, but you'll probably want to get the heck out pretty soon.

[dynow]

yeah, it is pretty small.

this will be my first year in Poland, so although I think i may get bored, I also think it will be a nice transition for me. i actually wanted to live somewhere that has a low english speaking population, it will certainly help me in learning to speak Polish faster.

the town seems quite nice, and the director had told me that there actually is a university very near by, I think a Science college of some sort.

[celtdancer]

Hey, Dynow!
I've enjoyed many of your useful posts, including some that go way back, but I really jumped at this one. Why? Because I'm in Brodnica! And have been for 6 weeks now. My family members live here (I'm an American though) and I'm staying with my aunt. So I wonder if the job you were consdering taking years ago (when you wrote the post to which I am responding), was with the same school that is now offering me a job?

But I'm not sure if i can become legal to work. My boss is willing to do the paperwork, but still thinks I will need to fly back to America to get it. Although, I have now read through all the posts about how the rules re: work permits for native speakers were relaxed a few years ago...so I am confused and want to ask you: I don't need a work permit, but I need a work visa? That is what that 'attached' document said, in one of the posts (a link to a translation of a Polish gov't site with announcement about how native speakers of English dont' need work permits anymore). But they need "work visa, which can be obtained at their local consulate".

Well I don't want to go to my 'local' consulate, since I'm already in Poland!

Can you help?

And yes, I got my Zamel last week, thanks to my maybe-future-boss-friend taking me to the local Urzad and registering me (as if I arrived last week, not last month).

I also applied for my Residency Permit (on day 44, so just under the wire for number of days in Poland), but that office was really clueless about what to do with an American, and scared me/ pissed me off by saying it could take 3 months for the answer--which defeats the purpose of trying to do the application in the first place! (I need the Res permit answer before my 90 days are up!, which is LESS than "3 months" away). They were idiots, unfortunately.

but I did have a positive, friendly experience with a much bigger Urzad office, the one in Warsaw. I submitted my application to "confirm my Polish citizenship" two weeks ago, and in 2-6 months I should have some good news (it's a clean-cut case). Until then, however, I'm still just a tourist.

Any advice? The teaching job being offered starts in 48 hours! No such thing as 'expedited processing' here in Poland (careful you don't snort your tea out through your nose, from that funny idea)....

Thanks,
kristina
I just applied for the Confi

[dynow]

i guess most of these questions have already been answered for you.

regarding the school, i don't remember looking for work in Brodnica. you didn't list the name of the school, maybe that would ring a bell.

so how are you doing out there? it's GOTTA be boring in that little town.