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Rzeszow has a population of around 200,000. During the time I was there this number included 4-5 Peace Corps Volunteers, 2 Canadian teachers with Solidarity Eastern Europe, 1 American with World Teach, another American and Canadian teaching independently (both were brought in to teach business courses at the Politechnika but ended up teaching English instead) and a couple of assorted Brits. I have no idea why they were there, they never became part of our North American clique. Rzeszow had a couple of movie theaters which usually showed American movies with Polish subtitles. There was also a concert hall which housed Rzeszow's Philharmonic Orchestra. They weren't anything to rave about but often had good visiting soloists. Besides, I was impressed that a city of Rzeszow's size could even support an orchestra. I suspect this was a remnant of the communist era.


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