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This episode was produced in Otatahi by Planes Media with support from New Zealand On Air.

Between the Waters, Polish legacy and New Zealand Charitable Trust presents you with the radio broadcast Polish Waves.

This broadcast is presented by Between the Waters Polish Legacy in New Zealand Trust and sponsored by Polish Embassy in Wellington.

We advocate and promote Polish heritage as part of New Zealand ethnic identity and provide forum to present, share and celebrate Polish uniqueness.

You can look us up on Facebook, Polish Legacy New Zealand.

In our case it's Poland and New Zealand.

I don't know about you ladies, but it was quite emotional for me when I got New Zealand citizenship, but I'll tell you about it later.

And that was certainly a case for a lot of Polish people here in Christchurch and in New Zealand.

It was definitely sad for me, especially the first few years here in New Zealand.

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So after, obviously after arriving here, falling in love in New Zealand,

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I understand that you travelled extensively, so what brought you to New Zealand and why is it New Zealand that you've chosen?

I knew that once I'm going to… That was not New Zealand, was it?

Well, no, it wasn't New Zealand.

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And there was this nice option to go to New Zealand.

So there is a, they had a branch in New Zealand.

It was disaster recovery business in the States, so it was kind of a natural sort of way of trying to help after such a dramatic event for New Zealand.

So have you left New Zealand or have you been always in New Zealand ever since you came?

No, it was New Zealand.

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Mieliśmy kilka wydarzeń, które opowiadały historię polskich mieszkańców, którzy przyjechali do New Zealandu, do Kraszczewskiego.

What are the areas that you haven't visited yet in New Zealand?

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So thank you for finding the time and willing to chat to us about the citizenship ceremony that you attended and about what you do and how you do and how you perceive life here in Christchurch and in New Zealand.

The exact 310 candidates from 55 different countries, including Monika, left the Christchurch Town Hall that evening in March as New Zealand citizens.

May I be the first to officially congratulate you as New Zealand citizens.

Each one of us, or our family ancestors, made a journey to make New Zealand home.

What brought us, or our ancestors, to settle here in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and what brought us to Ototahi Christchurch.

And you gain another home, a place you can stand tall and proud as a citizen of New Zealand.

As Dorota has mentioned, in 1872 a first large group of Polish settlers arrived in New Zealand.

Possibly due to the hardships endured on her journey to New Zealand.

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All those years ago and now Kiwi citizens and didn't even think any different from, for example, my generation or us migrants who had half of our lives back in Poland and now the second half here in New Zealand, which is the experiences are completely different now.

You were born here in New Zealand and you obtained Polish citizenship at some point in your life.

I am a New Zealander.

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I he became naturalized, a naturalized New Zealander in 1957.

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Aby to zrobić, musiałam iść do New Zealand Internal Affairs i zaprosić apostolatów.

To znaczy, że wszystkie dokumenty z New Zealandu mogą być otrzymane na zewnątrz, muszą być autentyfikowane w New Zealandu.

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Names mentioned – Heritage New Zealand.

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Now, I think that it is a reflection of how the community now is evolving because there's a lot of people with the same scenario living here in New Zealand, in Christchurch.

If you want to do something in Poland, sorry, from Polish to New Zealand, you have to do the epistle as well and they look amazing, those documents.

Takie ludzie mieszkali w New Zealandie.

Będziemy opowiadać o dwóch migracjach do New Zealandu, ponieważ jesteśmy na temat obywateli i przyjeżdżania do New Zealandu.

Tomu będziemy opowiadać o wadach polskich migracji do New Zealandu później, ale teraz posłuchajmy muzyki.