She began the next lesson by telling us that she forgot to say the most important thing. She forgot to say that she hated when someone just sat very quietly at his desk and did things on the sly. And that she loved a good joke. And she asked us whether we remembered what a good joke is.
And suddenly, without even bothering to get up from his seat, Gleb said, “A good joke is when someone jokes well.”
Later Gleb confessed to me that he really thought that from that moment on, the geography teacher would never think that he could ever do anything on the sly and that she would always love him. But then something unexpected happened. The geography teacher looked at Gleb over the rim of her glasses and called him up to the blackboard. And before Gleb could even open his mouth, she asked him, “Where is the Eastern European Plain located?”
Gleb answered, “The Eastern European plain is located in Eastern Europe.”
And I was very surprised by Gleb’s quick thinking. Because neither he nor I, of course, have ever heard anything about the Eastern European Plain. But somehow it seemed that he, most likely, gave an absolutely correct answer to the question.
And I also noted to myself that Gleb did not just answer “In Eastern Europe.” Because our teachers would always lower the mark by one full grade for such incomplete answers. Instead, he said, “The Eastern European Plain is located in Eastern Europe.” So then I was only curious whether the geography teacher would ask him anything else or just give him a five right then and there.
But she looked at Gleb angrily and said, “Sit down. A two.”
After this incident, Gleb became somewhat withdrawn. And he started to say that he did not like anything about school. That was why I was very pleased when Gleb told me that he liked physics class.
And again, we started to remember what our physics teacher was telling us. And Gleb said that it was pretty cool that Russian scientists and inventors were so observant. It was great that the Cherepanov brothers paid attention to the saucepan, and that Popov watched the circles in the water, and Mozhaisky looked at the birds.
And I said that it would be interesting to ask our physics teacher how electricity was invented. Because I suspected that the person who invented electricity was probably struck by lightning. But I was a bit worried that Gleb might be offended by that.
But Gleb was not offended. He laughed and said that he was thinking the same thing. He added that the person who invented electricity must have been very observant. Because if he had not been observant, he would not have noticed that he had been struck by lightning. And then there would be no way for him to invent electricity.
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