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27 March 1981

Article by Dan Lubin in "The Hoya", newspaper of G.U. on Polish Seminar

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At the end of the month, Georgetown University will be the forum for a unique and unprecedented program. The United States International Com...
22 January 1981

Book Review: 1984 (1949), by George Orwell, *****

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Synopsis Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, ...
01 August 1980

Windsurfing in Sardegna

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Marco a Golfo Aranci, in Sardegna, agosto 1980
24 June 1980

End of the semester abroad in Poland

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We spend the morning in Venice, just showing Cathy the highlights. I have some rubles left and manage to change them, at a very unfavorable ...
23 June 1980

Driving back through Yugoslavia and on to Italy

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Left Balaton lake at 10.00am. It would have been nice to spend more time here, after four intense months, and relax a bit, take in the cool ...
22 June 1980

Driving south, policemen and lake Balaton

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We wake up at 8 after a good night's sleep and head out to visit the house where Cathy's father lived before emigrating to the Unite...
21 June 1980

Drive to Przemisl

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We are ready to leave Warsaw at 9:30am. Last pictures together with our Polish classmates and friends. All of them came to say goodbye: Stef...
20 June 1980

Last day in Warsaw, for now

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Andrew and I go to the girls' dorm after breakfast, but they are not there. They were supposed to return yesterday from their tour of Fi...
19 June 1980

Getting ready to leave Poland

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In the morning we go to meet the Rector of our university. We have a plan: organize a two-pronged student seminar meeting between Georgetown...
18 June 1980

Crystal and corals

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Easy day of rest, laundry, catching up with our classmates at the dorm. In the evening I go and meet Marian and Ewa at their place. News o...
17 June 1980

Back to Warsaw

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Our ferry docks at Gdansk harbor in the early afternoon. It's been quiet sailing, quite different from that of a few days ago from Finla...
16 June 1980

Flags, blonds, and ferry

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We leave Oxelösund and the Ericsons after a hearty breakfast at 11 o'clock. In town I manage to buy a Swedish flag. I collect, and hang ...
15 June 1980

Car washing, catching up and night fishing

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Rather unexciting morning at the Ericsons'. We need to wash Giallina from all the black tar that stuck to it during our drive to Novgoro...
14 June 1980

Swedish friends, salmon and Soviet submarines

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After a long night spent listening to the moans of drunken Scandinavians, we arrive in Stockholm at 9 o'clock in the morning. The plan i...
13 June 1980

Finnish border and ferry to Sweden

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Wake up at 7am, quick breakfast and sadly we must leave Leningrad. We drive slowly and take in the landscape. Brief stop at Vyborg (Viipuri)...