"Hello might I join your conversation, my name is Edward" is how me, mum and Ange are greeted in perfect English. We're on the boat back from Ruski Island when this cute 8 year old kid approaches us to practice his English. He is very proper and he also tells us, amongst his hobbies are reading books such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Agatha Christie to name a few. He has even read Master and Margarita! Well me and Ange are most definitely impressed, I think back to when I was 8 I was more then likely picking my nose and climbing a tree or something. Maybe I was reading something highly cultured like the Babysitters Club but I never quite made it to Dostoevsky, not even now in my 26 years of living. I made a
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