About Freedom à la Jasienica
On November 8, at 2SLO, on the occasion of the Patron’s Day, a meeting with Mrs. Ewa Beynar-Czeczott, daughter of Paweł Jasienica, took place. The headmaster Anna Sobala-Zbroszczyk welcomed the guest and recalled the incredible fate of the Beynar family and Paweł Jasienica hi…
The book is a Way to Yourself
On the occasion of Translator’s Day, Polish teachers from 2SLO invited Dorota Konowrocka-Sawa, author of over sixty literary translations from English, to a meeting. The translator talked about her professional path from the world of journalism to the world of translation and…
Meeting with Andrzej Celiński on the 35th Anniversary of the Elections on June 4, 1989
On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the elections on June 4, 1989, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, we hosted Andrzej Celiński – politician and sociologist, member of Solidarity, participant of the Round Table, democratic opposition activist, MP and senator. During the meet…
For Roots & Wings
On January 11, Joanna Gierak-Onoszko, author of the book entitled The 27 Toby Obed’s Death Cases. The author told the story of an Inuit who, along with approximately one hundred and fifty thousand other people belonging to the indigenous communities of Canada, was force…
Reading is Absolutely Necessary
Olga Wróbel, literary critic, author of the book blog “Kurzojady” visited Solec during the literary festival. The author talked about her work as a reviewer, her favorite comics, her passion for searching for descriptions of the social situation in the popular literature of t…
Aggression & Music
On the 24th of October 2023, DP1 English group, taught by Joanna Zabczyk-Utri, was visited by two linguists: dr Kamila Miłkowska-Samul and dr Monika Konert-Panek from the University of Warsaw. They gave an interactive presentation titled: Verbal aggression in an intercu…
I Was a Soldier…
On November 14, the school was visited by Mr. David Kaiser, a Vietnam War veteran, drafted into the American army immediately after graduating from school in 1968 and sent to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) with the task of supporting the South Vietnamese. Together with other f…
Powder Compact and Herstory
On October 25, Karolina Sulej, a journalist, a writer, a curator of the exhibition about women soldiers in the Warsaw Uprising, an activist of the Kraina foundation, came to a meeting with students to talk about her passions and experiences. She studied interdisciplinary cult…
Rakaposhi or Covered with Snow
On October 24, our school was visited by a mountaineer, participant of the first expedition to K2, Mr. Paweł Kubalski. He met with students of class DP1 to talk about human discomfort in the high mountain environment. The mountain lover introduced students to the impact of hi…
At Peace with Oneself
On October 27, there was a meeting with Renata Lis, author of the book entitled “My Beloved and Me.” In an interview with Olga Masiuk, Renata Lis talked about her thirty-year experience of being in a relationship with a person of the same sex: about going through difficulties…
Whom Favours Fortune?
During the Mental Health Days, wisdom lovers: Aristotelian Karolina Lewestam and Stoic Tomasz Mazur, together with the meeting participants, considered the nature of happiness. The students asked what happiness is, what tools we need to achieve it, how to arrange our relation…
There is Always Another Wave
On September 19, at the school in Solec, we hosted John Pickett, a geologist, traveler and nature enthusiast who lives in Sydney. He started the meeting by telling a story about an important moment of slipping into a rising wave while surfing, which he compared to seizing the…
Impartiallity Really Matters
On June 14, the school in Solec was visited by Roger Hardy, a long-time BBC analyst for the Middle East, lecturer at Princeton, LSE, Kings College, London, author of books. The guest told about his experience of being a reporter in the Middle East, about direct contact with t…
What is Russia Getting at?
On April 26, a meeting with Piotr Swieciński – a historian, journalist and diplomat, author of the book entitled “The End of the Russian “Mir”? On the Ideological Sources of Russian Aggression” took place in our school. As an introduction, the guest told about impressions of …
About Anti-Semitism
On April 24, we hosted Bożena Umińska – Keff – a writer associated with the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the author of a book entitled “Antisemitism – an Unfinished Story”. The writer began the meeting with a short introduction on polytheistic rel…
My Mountains
On April 13, a meeting dedicated to passion was held in the auditorium. Paweł Kubalski talked about his lifelong fascination with the mountains. It all started in the Tatras, when as a teenager he went exploring caves with a friend. Although the interior of the mountains did …
About Mishima
On November 28, we met with Professor Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi, a researcher of Japanese literature and aesthetics, translator of Yukio Mishima’s novel entitled “Confession of the Mask”. Mishima is one of the most important writers of the 20th century, the most translated author o…
Mental Health Days
At the end of November, as every year, students and teachers devoted their time to reflecting on mental health and practicing mental well-being. Numerous events took place on Monday and Tuesday, including a meeting with Cveta Dimitrowa and Tomasz Stawiszyński on the impact of…
Taste of Ireland at 2SLO
On November 9, 2022, we acquired a taste for Irish culture. Students of pre-DP2 classes together with their teachers prepared many attractions. First, we watched a video filmed by students on a trip to Dublin and Galway in October, featuring interviews with passer-by in Dubli…
About Bacchantes in 2SLO
On November 8, 2022, we hosted dr Aleksander Wolicki – a historian who took us on a journey to ancient Greece in the 5th century BC , to the Athenian theater, where soon after Euripides’ death his son staged his father’s play entitled “The Bacchae”. This play is the only surv…
The Past and the Present
“Rainbow Friday” we started on Wednesday with a meeting with Joanna Ostrowska, the author of the book entitled ,,They. Homosexuals during World War II ”. The researcher emphasized that her book is the first monograph in Poland devoted to the fate of non-heteronormative men of…
The Act of Transgression
On the 5th of October 2022, for less than an hour, we found ourselves in the world of a translator from a Swedish language- Dominika Górecka. Translation is a kind of transgression, understood as entering the original author’s way of thinking and attentive, empathetic disent…
Refugees Are a Chance for Us, They Can Enrich Our Culture
“We are a wealthy country with the possibility of organizing temporary centers for refugees who, coming from other cultures, can enrich us,” says Jacek Cichocki – Minister of the Interior in 2011 – 2013, who was our guest on December 1, 2021. He answered questions about the c…
