Chapter 2 - Poland till ‘84

I had finished grade 3 in Poland at School Nr. 1 in Gdansk. We lived in the Morena neighbourhood. My walk to school was about a kilometre, but it did cross a pretty busy 4 lane road that didn’t have traffic lights. But from the age of 6 we were left to our own devices to get to and fro school. Wearing our blue polyester uniform shirts with the felt and plastic school badges, and our satchels full of books, we’d meet our friends at the bottom of the communist era apartment block buildings and meander our way to the 70’s build school I the somewhat new suburban development.