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jest to tekst do mojej prezentacji z angielskiego
jeśli ktos jest zainteresowany slajdami to proszę o podanie maila i wtedy prześlę
Hello everyone,
I'm happy TO HAVE YOU here with me to listen TO my presentation.
Influenced as I was by Kasia's last presentation and because I don't have such a great number of photos WITH ME in my dormitory house, I would like to show you a few places connected with myself and if we have enough time, I'll tell you about some other interesting places. Maybe it's not AN original idea but because each place is different and has a different history I hope this presentation will be professional and you will be satisfied. First I'm going to present you A BRIEF history, I will BE BRIEF and THEN I MAY surprise you with some curious detail.
My hometown WHERE I WAS BORN is Braniewo. It's in the north-east part of Poland, about 400 km from Poznań. As you can see on this little map it's near the Russian border, about 10 km from THE Kalingrad district. We even have accidents when some careless people crossING the border by mistake, for example they WERE in the forest and END UP BEING captured and imprisoned by THE Russian army as spIES or agentS. So IT WOULD SEEM THAT it's very dangerous to EVEN go to the forest.
Braniewo is also 10 km from THE Vistula bay. Vistula bay belongs to Baltic Sea. The nearest seaside resort is about 80km away and it's CALLED Stegna. On this Vistula Bay we've got a surfing school and each year in the summer time more and more people come HERE to learn how to surf. And this PLACE WAS really created for people who ARE ABOUT TO begin their adventure with surfing because the bay is shallow so it is very safe. THE wind is quite constant so it is ideal and each year the water is cleaner AND CLEANER. I think you should try it.
People think that everything THAT is in the northern-east part of Poland belongs to THE Mazury DISTRICT. I'm not from Mazury. I'm from Warmia. Maybe nowadays there is no difference between THESE two lands. But there were lots of differences in the old times. Maybe SOME of you know WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS between Mazury and Warmia? None? Ok
Firstly in Warmia THERE lived THE pagan Prussian Warmia tribes and there were no Mazury tribes. THE name Mazury was used for the first time only in THE nineteenth century.
Secondly, when THE Teutonic order killed all the pagans, this land was Catholic and Mazury were Protestant.
And thirdly, ALTHOUGH it's only my observation. In Warmia you've got lots of small old beautiful gothic castles and cathedrals and in Mazury you've got marvelous landscapes with lakes.
Braniewo is the oldest town of Warmia founded in thirteenth century and it was the first capital of Warmia. In the beginning here lived THE Prussian tribes AND later THE Teutonic Order and THE Bishops of Warmia.
In history lessons at school, children learn that in the sixteenth century a bishop called Stanisław Hozjusz brought The Company of Jesus also known as the Jesuits to Poland, and the first place where he brought them and where he found his collegium was Braniewo. So it was an important place of culture and religion.
Here we can see THE crest of the city. THE dragon is a symbol of paganism and THE deer a symbol of Christianity. They BOTH have gold elements because they are royal animals and they are under A lime-tree. This crest symbolizes THE EXISTANCE of two religions in this land. And they are red because red is a color of Warmia. The name Warmia means red land.
That’s all about the old history.
Now something about modern history. Do you remember this beer? I remember it very well because I lived opposite the brewery where the production of EB took place and it is very sad for me to talk about THIS. EB and Special BEERS were produced in Braniewo and in Elbląg. In 1993 investors from Australia bought THESE two breweries and started THE production of EB and then THE Special. These two letters are THE first letters from THE name of the town where THE beer was produced E - Elbląg, B - Braniewo. Here we can see some animals - a kangaroo and an ostrich - THE symbols of Australia.
In 1995 THE brewery in Braniewo was THE most modern and the best brewery in Poland. Probably from 1993 to 1998 EB was the most popular beer in Poland.
But then, oddly enough, in 1998 THE investors from Australia TO WHOM THE brewery belonged to decided to sell it to THE Żywiec Group. They INSISTED that it was some kind of merger but everyone knew that it WAS not a merger, but A takeover. Some people said that Żywiec wanted to stop production from the beginning because it was unprofitable and they had enough of their own breweries.
Others said that they tried TO save this brand and that's why they SPENT fifty million zloty on A commercial with Jean Reno - a French actor, who has appeared in numerous successful Hollywood productions, but they DIDN'T have A good strategy. So in 2001 they stopped THE production and they closed this brewery. So we can say THAT it HAS collapsed.
It was quite A modern brewery with new facilities so they dismantled THESE facilities and put THEM into their own breweries AND THE UNWANTED parts they sold OFF to A scrapyard.
I've got a short 3 minutes film about this situation from 2001 but it's in Polish, BUT if someone of you is interested I can show it TO you later.
But from the very beginning all this enterprise was one big scram. And I'm sure that you could make a really great movie about it ALL.
Tony Oates ,the founder of EB, was some kind of magician in the world of business. He was sought in Australia for tax fraud OF more than 100 mln $. So he fled to Poland in 1991 to avoid Australian law and he started A new life and A new business. I think he's a really smart guy.
THE brewery was closed for about 5 years until in 2006 an investor from Elbląg bought this brewery and started producing new BEER- CALLED Barkas.
After two months of its existence on the market THE Żywiec Group brought an action against Barkas because it had a similar label to THE Special. They accused Barkas OF IMPERSONATING A well known brand and OF THE FACT that it WAS hard for a EVERYDAY customer to see the difference and to distinguish BETWEEN THESE two kinds of beer. After a year OF LITIGATION THE Żywiec Group won the suit AND the brewery collapsed for the third time.
THE BREWERY HAD collapsed for the second time in 2003 when Dr.Witt wanted to produce FRUIT juices there but they couldn't achieve an agreement with THE local authorities. THE REASONING BEHIND THIS WAS THAT our local water is very good and it DOES NOT need ANY additional treatment that's why production of drinks from the health point of view WOULD BE profitable. Nowadays of course THE brewery doesn't work. Some people said that Kulczyk – a prominent Polish businessman, one of the richest Poles, bought brewery but it's only HEARSAY. This gossip HOWEVER is not pointless because this year Kulczyk bought THE local big cross-border company - Chemikals and now in this area he controls 16% of ALL Russian import especially THAT based on coal and fertilizers.
That's all about industry.
I BET that you know where the biggest zoo in Poland is. It's IN Wrocław (that's right). But HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT where the smallest zoo in Poland is? Of course it's in Braniewo. It's the smallest zoo in Poland and the only one zoo in all Warmińsko - Mazurskie voivodship. It's almost in the center of the city and it was FOUNDED in 1955. It's near the cathedral and our local priest wanted to shut down this zoo because when he prayed in HIS church with THE worshippers often THE lions WOULD ROAR or THE goats WOULD BLEAT. We ENDED UP HAVING a referendum about this issue and THE people decided not to close the zoo. It's probably the smallest zoo in Europe I think and we have THE USUAL exotic animals - tiger, MONKIES AND EVEN A dingo dog. My grandmother worked there. Nowadays I PERSONALLY would like to close down this zoo too because THE animals there are so skinny, they don't have enough space, they are VERY sad and they have many diseases.
NOW I've got question for you. All of you know that Mikołaj Kopernik was born in Toruń, but do you know where he spent most of his life - about thirty-three yearS until he died? And IT SO HAPPENS THAT in this place he made his greatest discoveries. Not in Braniewo, but in A very small city 10 km away from Braniewo. THE CITY'S NAME IS Frombork. In Toruń they HAVE NAMED everything THAT they can as Kopernik, Kopernik hotels, Kopernik university, Kopernik ginger cakes. That's why when people HEAR about Kopernik they ONLY think about Toruń. But the truth is THAT he was only born an spend his ENTIRE childhood there. All his works and tools of work are in THE Mikolaj Kopernik museum in Frombork, because he lived there most of his life. In Toruń they don’t have a Mikołaj Kopernik museum, they have the so called Kopernik house: a place where he was born, adorned with some exhibitions. There was a time when his life's greatest work was in the Frombork museum but now it’s located in the Jagieloński university in Kraków.
In my TOWN there ARE more interesting places AND things to see and we've got lots of beautiful legends, but we don't have enough time to TALK about all of them. I'm sad that THESE places ARE NOT WELL promoted AND actually they ARE NOT promoted at all. The only visitors TO Frombork and Braniewo are old mean Germans. I've got a friend who works in A restaurant in the summertime and she said that they always have lots of problems with old Germans because they don't want to pay. They eat a dish, they say it was tasteless and that they don't want to pay, or they eat and then they run away from the restaurant WITHOUT PAYING. AND if they tip it's 20groszy or maximum 50 groszy (which is equivalent to 10 euro cents).
BUT old German VISITORS ARE NOT enough, that's why I think the authorities should promote this area. And I WARMLY invite you ALL to come and see and have a great time. Everything there is very cheap, you can make beautiful, lovely pictures, have unforgettable memories and enjoy yourselves AND you can have a really great time.