Word: bozena
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...wife and four children. Coming to Dublin was a "crazy thing," said Oska. He had never left Poland before. A trained electrician, he now makes twice as much sweeping up as he did at home plying his trade. It isn't just the guys who put in the hours. Bozena Ukalska, 47, a shop assistant, is one of those who did not choose Britain or Ireland. She settled outside Madrid and works weekends and holidays. But she knows what is required: "You come here to work," Ukalska says...
Some Poles think the joys of life overseas can be captured back home. Bozena Wozna spent 2 1/2 years researching and teaching in London before returning last summer to the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Czestochowa. "In the beginning, it's great over there. You have more money. You can buy more things. Life is more comfortable," she recalls. "But you have no roots...
...Bozena Ukalska SHOP ASSISTANT A former religion teacher from southeastern Poland, Bozena Ukalska, 47, had already spent fruitless months job hunting when her husband was laid off from the local automobile plant. So in 2005, she says, "we decided to leave. That's better than sitting and crying and begging for help." They went to Spain where at first she worked illicitly, earning cash in hand as a cleaning lady. A year later, Spain opened its labor markets to new E.U. citizens and she took legal employment near Madrid in a shop selling Polish products. Today, Ukalska earns...
...Bozena Wozna UNIVERSITY LECTURER With a PhD in computer science and a specialization in computer-program troubleshooting, Bozena Wozna, 33, is the kind of person her country can ill afford to lose. She chose a teaching career in part because she believes the young science can play a vital role in stimulating Poland's new economy. But like many talented Poles, she decided three years ago that the opportunities elsewhere were too hard to pass up. She found a research job at King's College London and later taught at University College London. It was, she says, "a great adventure...