I may not have a facebook account, but I can’t ignore a perfectly good investigative tool! It makes finding people’s identity just that little bit too easy!
So, I decide to post a special ad on the Polish gumtree site, I thought it might be nice if I could persuade people to talk to me in the hot sun and pay me for the privilege… in English of course, people love that kind of thing here. Well, actually I was encouraged by my friend and so far have only received messages from people laughing at the terrible google translation job. e.g.
“Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I very much enjoyed reading the second part of your ad, namely the Polish translation 
You may not realise how hilarious it is, but you actually made my day. Thanks! ”
No problem! I only put a Polish translation up (a bad one admittedly) so they don’t remove my ad!
But here is the interesting message.
“Hello, My name is Marianna and I’m 24.
After reading your advertisement, especially this one written in Polish which looked like was translated through the google translator I was wondering if you maybe would like to have a Polish friend who would help you with the English-Polish translations if you would need such ones?
I study languages but not not English at the moment and I wouldn’t like to lose the contact with this language.
I think my English is quite ok (but I do make od errors with tenses!) that’s why I don’t need regular classes, I just need an English friend:)
Do you like cake? I could bake you a very nice cake/buy you a drink if you’d like to meet me even once every two weeks.
Think about it, maybe you find this idea stupid but I’d thought I ask as if I don’t then I won’t be sure whether you found this idea silly or not
Marianna”
What do you think? A Pole offering random friendship based on my nationality? Pretty normal. Offering to buy my off with food or drink, also quite normal as is the “shy” way the proposition is given.
But what does make this a little unusual is the email address it came from, I stuck it in trusty facebook and saw a chap I thought I recognised. I searched my gmail for his name and there we have it… he is the guy who lives in the flat directly below me… and his wife/gf well, I have not had the pleasure of meeting her yet.
I should probably confess my identity at this point, i.e. the chap upstairs.. but that’s probably a bit boring!
Other news – Spending my life on the computer instead of enjoying the awesome weather.. I do have a rather beautiful tan that causes severe envy in the ladies at the minute though.
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