A POLE STAR; Our blogger goes global on Polish TV show.Byline: By TOM MCTAGUE THE Chronicle's new Polish blogger has become a surprise TV star in her homeland. Alexandra Jarocka, 27, of Clavering Clavering may refer to: In places:
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Last year she also helped villagers introduced Polish cue cue, n a stimulus that determines or may prompt the nature of a person's response. cue Psychology Any sensory stimulus that evokes a learned patterned response. See Conditioning. cards for police to help them be understood by eastern Europeans - a scheme which has since gone national. Polish TV programme 'TV Polonia' has already featured Alexandra three times - and she was recently interviewed for an international Polish magazine. For Alexandra, who is originally from Zabrze, about 40 minutes' drive from Krakow, it has all come as quite a shock. "My family tell me when I'm on the TV - my grandma saw me first and rang to tell me," she said. "The TV programme has gone all over the world. It's mad - I'm going to be famous for just being me. "I've got no idea how they found out about me. I rang them up and they just said they watch all the news from all over. "On the TV programme it showed Chicago, where there are something like 10 million Poles - then they showed me. I'm getting more famous there - but I'm so proud to be here, I'd prefer to be noticed here. "I've said no to other opportunities - they wanted to do a documentary on me but I turned it down. I now represent the Polish community in Derwentside - the North East is my home." Alexandra moved to the North East after getting a job at a jobs fair in Poland. "Within half an hour I had a job and a flat in Newcastle. I just couldn't believe it - dreams really do come true," she added. CAPTION(S): WORLD FAME: Chronicle blogger Alexandra Jarocka of Annfield Plain has noe feature on Polish televison |
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