Originally Posted by llong0233
How is it you chose living in Poland?
Long story. My dh has a PhD in the Old Testament (Bible) and came here in October, 1994 to be a professor in a seminary that was starting here. Because of communism and the lack of Bible teaching, the churches were asking for help in this area.
That's what got us here.
Now, we are starting a (Baptist) church near Warsaw and run a charitable organization. Sometimes my husband travels to other countries, like the Ukraine to teach for short segments--like summer school classes. He's heading to another country in the spring to teach pastors from closed countries (countries where people get in trouble for believing or even having a Bible.) I don't want to be too specific because of the topic... A year from now he is invited to go to Kenya to teach for a couple of weeks. They said I am invited too....:)
So, in spite of the fact that we don't have many cottons here...don't feel sorry for me. Life is really much simpler here. We don't have zillions of choices of cold cereals (between 10-15) or it doesn't take a long time to figure out which kind of dental floss you want or which toothbrush to buy--we don't have that kind of choice. In one sense it is bad, but on the other hand, buying soda pop is easy...if you want diet you buy Diet Coke or Pepsi or diet generic soda. We don't have Diet Sprite, 7-up, Mt. Dew, etc.
You get used to fewer choices and learn to live with it. On the other hand, my kids can walk home from school by themselves-- my 16-year-old goes out with her friend, another 16-year-old on their bikes and just hang around in the woods, etc. It is more like life used to be in the 50's in the states.
So, my lack of choices of cottons is a small price. It forces me to be creative and use ingenuity. I do cut up old cotton woven clothes, though. :)
I bought flannel PJs through the course of a solid year--at the used clothing store. I found patterns I liked and bought the bottoms and tops separately--for 60cents a piece. At the end of the year, I cut them all up and then decided to see what I had. I had enough to make 7 flannel rag quilts.