A 6th year boy with glasses, who I believe is 11 years old, approached me at the koi pond today and said “excuse me.” I moved to let him pass. He moved to the other side of me and said “excuse me” again.
“Yes?”
The boy began to speak:
Nicolas Sarkozy, the passionate, pugnacious son of a Hungarian immigrant, was elected president of France on Sunday, promising a break with the past, a new style of leadership, and a renewal of relations with the United States and the rest of Europe. Sarkozy’s triumph over Ségolène Royal, the Socialist candidate, was a huge blow to her party and dashed her dream of becoming the country’s first female president. But Royal tried to rally her supporters, telling them French politics had forever changed with her candidacy.

What?!

“Do you understand what you just said?” I asked him
“Thank you.”
“Why did you memorize that?”
“Thank you. I can speak English a little.”
“You memorize very well.”
“Thank you.”