A most amusing day

The sunshine and warm temperatures have the folks of Radom out of hibernation. Walking to work today, a guy around my age said "hello" (in Polish) to me. This completely caught me off guard. People rarely smile, let alone greet others. And it wasn't a grunt or a man talking AT me, rambling on in their foreign tongue as they sometimes do. A genuine hello. Refreshing! Surprise number two happened when I got to the school in Radom. I had time to spare, so I sat on a bench with my book. The guy sitting beside me (again, around my age) turned and asked, in perfect ENGLISH, what I was reading and what kind of book it was. Then I noticed his book and I had read it a couple years ago so we just chatted about it. I HAD A NORMAL CONVERSATION WITH A STRANGER IN THE STREETS OF RADOM. Definitely unexpected. Of course there were kids throwing wads of paper at him/me/us from the top floor of a building. It was too sunny and nice out for me to be annoyed. My eyes caught them red-handed and they knew it. I just grinned at them and shook my head. I kept looking up at them, and they weren't fast enough to shy away from the window. The little buggers.

I had my first "story time" class today. One kid showed up. Oh Oskar. He's a good kid and I like him. It probably wasn't as fun/exciting for him without other kids too, but he liked the story, understood it, and we did some games with the new words I taught him from the story.

SPOILER ALERT!
In the text book I use for my adult classes, there is a story that is carried over the span of multiple levels (i.e. elementary, pre-intermediate, and intermediate), as a practical English section. It's a story of two people, Mark and Allie. They meet in London, England, as they work for the same company - Allie in the London office and Mark at the San Fransisco office. He invites her to a conference in SanFran; they ultimately both end up at the Paris office. ANYWAYS, the story ended in one of my classes...it ends with Mark proposing to Allie. Awww.

As if I just wrote about a text book story. Oh dear.