February 27, 2008
The other
day I had emerged from Tashrabat, the fancy Western-style shopping center on
Gorkova where the "fast" internet cafe is located, and had just begun
my trek back to The London School when an SUV with tinted windows pulled
alongside of me and began honking. Now, in general, when a strange SUV with
tinted windows pulls alongside of you and starts honking, the best thing to do
is to ignore it, which is what I did. Then its window rolled down, and one of
my students (er, former student; he's studying with Katy this month) appeared,
leaning over, shouting, "Annie! Annie! Hello!" At which point he
rear-ended the Mercedes in front of him. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I caused a
guy to wreck his car. Luckily it wasn't serious, and he seemed more amused by
it than anything else. He also told me that any time I needed a ride to give
him a call. Because after seeing him wreck his car, getting into said car is
exactly what I want to do.
Later
that day, I went to my class at the embassy. Sort of. See, of the last four
scheduled lessons at the embassy, one fell on Presidents' Day (woohoo for
American holidays at the American Embassy!) and my one student was sick on the
other three. And instead of phoning The London School to say that there would
be no lesson, I discovered this each time after arriving at the embassy and
going through the whole security rigmarole. Sigh. However, as this means less
work for me, I'm not really complaining. Thursday was beautiful, so I decided to
walk most of the way back to the school instead of calling a taxi; I think the
school's staff thought I was insane for doing so!
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