EXPERIENCE
EUGENIA BUJAK
The Slovenian road and TT champion on growing up in Poland and finding a home at Alé
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I was born in Lithuania but I come from a Polish family. The place where I was born connected me to Lithuania, but all my family is Polish; one grandmother came from Belarus. Until I was six or seven years old I lived in Lithuania and then I started school in Poland. I was living with my grandparents for a few years, because my mum was working hard in Poland and trying to find a better life for us. My grandparents took care of me very well, but I missed my parents.
We moved to the south of Poland to a little village, Turnitsa -this is close to the city of Rybnik or maybe you know Katowice. There I got a new family, a second father, and then later a second little brother, so life began there.