tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post9133688949528368756..comments2023-09-06T08:23:46.896-07:00Comments on oreneta aground (but missinaibi's afloat!): Group behaviours, a video, and bullying, and a messorenetahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-87176720302150129182007-01-14T15:18:00.000-08:002007-01-14T15:18:00.000-08:00Nomad; You are so kind. To be slightly mushy, yo...Nomad; You are so kind. To be slightly mushy, you ARE important and valued...<br />Love ya backorenetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-21474570214756510542007-01-14T05:26:00.000-08:002007-01-14T05:26:00.000-08:00Yeah, she is right...
You ARE one of those people...Yeah, she is right...<br /><br />You ARE one of those people!!<br /><br />Wait...you mean we are not all important and valued??<br /><br />*blink*<br /><br />(just kidding...)<br /><br />Love ya!!Nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442951171750388374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-72725087420541629922007-01-12T16:24:00.000-08:002007-01-12T16:24:00.000-08:00Sis, it is so weird what the words are in other la...Sis, it is so weird what the words are in other languages. The word for pregnant in Catalan is embarassada. Somewhere between embraced and embarassed....<br /><br />Love you tons. You are too kind.orenetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-7177681002291887242007-01-12T15:38:00.000-08:002007-01-12T15:38:00.000-08:00Actually - re: group and non-group thing, I have a...Actually - re: group and non-group thing, I have also been thinking lately about how some people can manage to make you feel like their close friend - no matter what other close friends of theirs are around - whereas other people - myself for instance - are not very capable at handling the close one-on-one relationships I have with people when more than one of them are present at the same time. I expect oreneta does not understand what I'm talking about because she is one of those people who naturally make everyone feel important and valued without excluding anyone. Anyway - perhaps just the level of social skills makes the group thing happen sometimes. People start enthusing about their group - and then someone new comes along and they are not sure how to embrace the new person while maintaining their groovy group feeling....<br />By the way the word for stranger in Polish is fequently literally the same as "alien" - like what you would call a small green person stepping out of a silver frisbee in your backyard - ha ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-71984675715785218132007-01-12T06:30:00.000-08:002007-01-12T06:30:00.000-08:00Nomad: You are amazing...
Commonalizing, I agree...Nomad: You are amazing...<br /><br />Commonalizing, I agree with you, the name does sound a wee bit...um...medical, but the idea. you may have something there. <br /><br />I agree with you completely about the same things going on in Canada. Absolutly sure it does, as you said, we are the insiders there. No question, the local husband makes a HUGE difference. When I can finally start talking to people here, that may help us as well. She also works there full time, in both Polish and English, so has a network of friends through work, like anywhere, and neighbours, as well as her husband's family. Although we did discuss it over Christmas, and people say hello to her husband more than her, and people will even not respond to her hello's, while they will with the husband. Some of these are people that she sees frequently in her neighbourhood. Some of that though may be a hangover from Nazi/German/Russian occupation and all the horrors that went along with it. A certain suspicion may remain.orenetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-10080714696224674412007-01-11T13:34:00.000-08:002007-01-11T13:34:00.000-08:00Hey there,
Thanks for the "amazing" reference...n...Hey there,<br /><br />Thanks for the "amazing" reference...not feeling so today. <br /> <br />Re the difference in our Expat experiences, inclusion exclusion etc. It goes on at home just as much as here or anywhere I suspect, it is just that at home we am on the comfy and included inside so it does not enter the horizon (at all), here we are on the cold and not so comfy outside (no pity just reality)...re your sister perhaps she already has her entrance ticket ...a local husband?<br />Perhaps that is the difference.<br /><br />At the risk of beating a dead horse or rather a group of dead horses (and excluding all the others...)<br /><br />In essence isn't it just the basic idea of "Group" even if one does not enter into better than or not, just different...but if not "Group" then what?<br /><br />What else is there?<br /><br />Perhaps we need to invent another way or associating social relationship of being together without being a "Group" different but he same...focus on commonalities...<br /><br />"commonolizing"???...<br /><br />(sounds like something wet and gushy you get your colon cleaned with)... sorry I digress...Nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442951171750388374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-52184248627557096272007-01-11T00:29:00.000-08:002007-01-11T00:29:00.000-08:00Beth: So glad they heard me this time anyway...ye...Beth: So glad they heard me this time anyway...yeah, the little girl got elected co-class president that afternoon. She must be quite something.<br /><br />DD: It is pretty tricky, and must serve to keep drunkeness in check, you can only get so hammered and still pour, and not choke to death. <br /><br />The husband saw a giant one out in the country once, it would have held at least two gallons of wine. The sign said that if you could lift it with one hand and drink, you were welcome to as much as you wanted, free. Yeeeshorenetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-29077650418652811342007-01-10T21:37:00.000-08:002007-01-10T21:37:00.000-08:00You have to DRINK out of that thing??? Sorry, man....You have to DRINK out of that thing??? Sorry, man. If I had to drink out of that I'd probably feel a wicked urge to sprout.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737980462115396236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-8073782771266271792007-01-10T16:26:00.000-08:002007-01-10T16:26:00.000-08:00Blogger heard you - the picture came through. Love...Blogger heard you - the picture came through. Love all these fascinating tidbits I'm learning from you (i.e. the porro). <br />Great story about that little girl holding her own in the schoolyard.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110235078325434919noreply@blogger.com