Sometimes the world comes to you

One of the surprises that came to us at the CEC in December was a young man from Nigeria, Kunle. He speaks English as his second language, but like a native speaker. He's currently studying Russian with my professor so that he can take on an oil engineering degree later on. He frequents English discussion club, is always full of deep and thoughtful questions about faith and even more so, questions about Russian grammar.

He had NO experience in Russian at all prior to coming here and he's learning everything from scratch and without the benefit of any English textbooks. So, sometimes after English discussion club, Kunle and I spend a few moments talking about the finer points of Russian grammar. It's especially fun, when university students are there with us… they are always surprised at how complicated their own language's grammar can be!