Time to sum up as a very special time is approaching┘

[Zbyszek]

Thank you for your words which meant something to me during my half-year roaming through the Ukraine.com world.
Many thanks for:

1. Kathy - for convincing me that two once hostile nations can be really friendly. Yes, you are number one on my list.

2. Batukhan/Tuchaj Bej -for his ability to overcome his Soviet past with dignity. It does not matter whether you are Moslem or Christian. If you are Moslem, the America needs you even more.
3. Vanya (Johnstruthers) - for his jovial descriptions of Ukraine's south, also for raising vodka considerations to nearly academic level,
4. Zhuk - for his competent historic remarks,
5. Silkrem - for his silent but noticeable presence here and his nice St. Nicholas postcard,
6. Laryska - for her shining youthful optimistic attitude,
7. Hanja - for sharing her good Ukrainian sentiments with me,
8. Donquichotte - for his French elegance expressed in very good English,
9. Holland - for supporting my romantic attitude; your ⌠absolutely beautiful■ assessment was like a hormone feeding my vanity,
10. Hannia - for inspiring me on the occasion of a root problem,
11. Halina -for making one of my days with her fairy tale about The_Last_Word,
12. Divchyna -for her freshening appearances, and for explaining my gender to a Judge from Texas,
13. Ulysses - for explaining me what Polish jokes really mean; also for his stoical attitude.
14. Jarema - for being able to cloud his nationality so effectively,
15. The Last Word -for his creativity and digilence, though many times used against the Ukraine.com hosts,
16. Rajkumar -for being so patient about good forumers' advice as to his daughter▓s upbringing, also for his valuable medical explanations,
17. Irinka - for her share in constituting the environment for the agreeable dialogue,
18. CameoJoe - for his Texas vigilance and good humour,
19. Johncullen - for showing green colour in an important referendum in Ireland about showing the Irish green/red light to 10 nations placed somewhat to the East of the Old Continent.
20. Happy-gunner - for initiating the "Ten top Ukrainians and others" thread, as well as for reminding me of a past White Eagle▓s football glory at Wembley stadium.
21. Nickolas - for sharing his mysticism with us, though I do not support your conspiracy theories,
22. Foreigner - for ensuring me that Japan is much less distant from central Europe than I ever thought,
23. Andrewblow - for his deep religious/ faithful insight,
24. Makcum for sharing a fragment of the beautiful Taras Shevchenko poem on Bohdan with me,
25. Lubov - for his somewhat utopian poem about how wonderful the world could be without religion,
26. Kasper - for making noticeable language progress in only two months,
27. Andrej - for his practical ideas,
28. Bunky - for his determination about getting to know Central/Eastern Europe,
29. StasUA √ for his moderating efforts, although you confused some historic points instead of clarifying/moderating them.
30. Forest - for his rare and friendly historic remarks (history is a swampy meadow when one can easily get drowned).
31. AngelWithWings - for noticing me (it is a repeated appeal to my vanity).


Also, special thanks to:
NZman, for enlightening me on what a phobia means,

Bartosz for enlightening me on how one can spoil a historic argument with too much irony,

Steve Vlasenko for enlightening me on how an intellectual can so easily get unreasonably provoked by too much irony,

Zupbonz for enlightening me on how much chauvinistic I am.

I wish you all good Christmas, spent near your loved ones, experienced according to your best national/regional tradition and full of inspiring moments. Moreover, I wish all participants to be able to meet again against all (VCI) odds.



*****
┘at the sight of the star they were overjoyed.

[forest]

Hey Zbyszec The Thanks is to you , you make this place interesting .Keep posting enjoy your company. All the best.

[happy_gunner]

Thank you for the mention Zbyszek, that cold november night in '73, which greatly upset an 8-yr-old self, lives on in folklore around here: my friend's ginger-haired, balding, Irish father has been called "Lato" ever since
I'd like to thank all of you for all of your posts, reading them makes me marginally less ignorant bit by bit.
I'd like to add another name, that of Sweet November, I'm sure she's a living godess
Happy Christmas all!

[Rajkumar]

Zbyszek,I just got to know you.Hope you are not leaving.Hope one day we meet and you can show me your 13 century underground salt mine in Wieliczka.I will show you our tin mine in Ipoh,Perak.
Merry Christmas my friend and a Happy New Year.

[Laryska]

Zbyszek,
Thank you for your kind words. They are very encouraging!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
May you spend a restful holiday with the your friends and family.
Veselykh Sviat!

[holland]

I hope this is not good-bye. I has been a delight to chat with you.

[Donquichotte]

Dear Zbyszek,

It is a pleasure for me to join the other thirty members or so in thanking you for your nice and well put comments about each one of us, and wishing you a merry Christmas and the very best for 2003.

Poland will again be part of the EC at the end of this new year, after a fifty year parenthesis, and as EC citizen, as well as French (for both our countries have much in common, Kings,Poets,..) I'd like to welcome you back.

Looking forward to more exchanges during the course of next year,

DonQuichotte.