A reaction I didn't think about

Last Thursday I met my students, Dimitri, in a store near the school where work. He's a kind of diligent student who willing to use English in everyday situation. He has enourmous motivation to improve his communicative ability.

That day, as usual, he greeted me, I greeted him back then we had little talk about each other needs. I told him that I was looking for a kind of medicine for my inflamation. My was feel normal, it was rather uncomfortable. To overcome this, I usualy buy a kind of Chinese tea to coolmy tongue. Then a couple of minutes later we finished our conversation and Dimitri went into the store while I was still at the deposit counter.

But, then the guy next to me who paid "good" attention to our conversation commented,"Who the .... is he?". "Why should he speak English here?" He facial expressed disgrace. I guess he's kind of boss who has been to English speaking country. The he asked me where Dimitri is from. Dimitri's face is rather western typically. Then I told this mustached late forties guy that it is our commitment to use English wherever and whenever we meet each other. It is part of our training program in improving English conversation skill.

"Oh... that's great! That's good!" he said. "I agree that it has to be used in our everyday life in order to better our English," he added. "Otherwise it will be worsening" I said.

It was truly a reaction I didn't think about before........

Taso