A reflection on the life and work of Polish Australian author and satirist Andrzej Gawroński, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his death in 1997.
An autobiographical essay recalling the author's experiences as a schoolboy. From a Warsaw family, he went to high school in the south-eastern city of Przemyśl, where at first he boarded with a family connected with his father. When Andrzej was 12, his whole family moved to Przemyśl and from then on he lived with them. The essay describes the family he boarded with, and various school experiences, including being teased for his double-barrelled surname (Rawita-Gawroński), and his fear of his father's reaction to his failure in mathematics.