Hahaha…

December 24, 2009

Walked to US and Canadian Embassies, they were closed. Of course the one day we go, they are closed. Although, I don’t think it being Christmas Eve helped, haha.

So after our walk back down from the mountain on which houses the Canadian Embassy, we decided to walk around Kavaklidere. It is a part of town with nice shops and restaurants, and right next to the Sheraton where I met up with Tracy. In the area is a bookstore with a whole floor of books written in English. We looked around the books store for an hour or so, until we were really hungry. We headed to the mall where Tracy and I had lunch. As we were approaching the mall, an older man started talking to us in Turkish. We said sorry, we don’t speak Turkish. He then started speaking English, eerily like the guy I met at Shoppe last week. We continued walking toward the mall, and he asked if we were native English speakers. Of course. As we were turning to go into the mall, he said hold on, and opened his briefcase. He then proceeded to hand us each a piece of paper, it was his homework, hahahaha.

He asked us to look over the answers to see if they were correct. The best part was they were worksheets on prepositions, and we didn’t even know the answers to some of them, haha. As we looked over his work, he told us a little about himself. He is a computer science professor at a university. He is studying English and French. His wife and he are competing with one another to see who can learn the most languages. He informed us it was a lost cause for him, because his wife already knows four languages. We asked him his name, and he said Bob. His wife gave him the nickname, and he said I hear it is also a real American name, haha. So Bob then thanked us, and asked us if he could call if he needed help with his homework. We obliged and Tyler gave him his number. He said he would call us when he needed help with his homework and we’ll go for lunch.

The whole interaction was hilarious. From him rambling in Turkish to us, to pulling out his homework, then telling us his name is Bob. Oh Bob, what a great guy to stop us on the sidewalk to correct his English homework.

What other randoms will we meet to correct their English homework?