Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Baffled.

Restful day again on Monday but I did have an interesting conversation with a 15 year old girl.

I asked if she already had a plan for university in mind and she replied that she would probably attend one in Pozna艅. I asked what about her friends and she surprised me with the answer. Most of them were planning on studying in the U.S. and staying there. For some reason they had the old idea that the U.S. was the land of milk and honey. That jobs were plentiful and they would become celebrities were reason they gave. The old idea is still present in the younger generation and it baffles me how they can think like that. In this day and age with all the information that is available through different medias, how they view America is rather strange.  This girl could speak English fairly well but she said her friends could only pass written examinations and grammar test in school, they could not speak hardly any English.

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