This week in our online classes we visited two nations in Eastern Europe that each have a thousand years of history behind them — Poland and the Czech Republic. The Czechs and Poles have been neighbors for a millennium, though they have “a special relationship” and have fought much less often with each other than with nations nearby, like Austria, Germany and Russia. In class we focus not on squabbles but on something Czechs and Poles share……. POLKA! Let’s go.
