Polish girl in UK :-)

She arrived in UK two weeks ago and she couldn't understand why they all smile to each other.

When she was six she was told not to smile to strangers and once she saw an adult woman smiling to strangers - her older brother explained that the woman was mentally handicapped. That explained everything. She smiles when she sees a familiar face. She kisses and hugs her fiends but to smile to total strangers - ridiculous.

When she had to do the shopping, she was pleasantly surprised. There was a sign with the direction of a queue but no one asked her to obey it when she was the only person queueing. A shop assistant wasn't lecturing her what a correct name of a product was and how to pronounce it. 
She was a bit impatient and even felt offended when a lady in front of her started talking to a cashier and it took them six minutes to bag one bread, two cans of tomatoes and crisps. She thought it was unacceptable in Poland and you can either work or talk to friends, but never at the same time. She was finally surprised that the cashier and the lady weren't friends.

She couldn't understand why they kept announcing everything: a change in a bus route, that a train was delayed by approximately 5 minutes, that you have to send your tax return on time. If she wanted to know, she would have asked someone. 

She went past a policeman and tried not to look at him and then waited for him to disappear round the corned before she crossed the street 100 m from zebra crossing. She was lazy enough not to reach zebra crossing and she was cheeky enough not to be fined for doing it...

Things looked different,  but not the things and language were her problem. She somehow was offending people saying: "Can I have a ticket?",  "Give me that.", "Take it."
What was she doing wrong?- "It was polite. Should I start repeating myself?"



See you in class,
Ola