Our russian language teacher in gimnazija. Was my classmaster in first three grades then dropped us, which was unheard of. The breaking point was when Baki was seen by Radisav, from same village, standing by the football field when he should have been at school. This guy was probably hitting on her, and didn't find any better pickup line but to snitch on his fellow neighbor.
The point is that this was an honest mistake - he was returning from the doctor, was actually in some kind of flu/fever, but just met a pal and stopped for some loitering. IOW, he wasn't guilty of anything this time; the other few dozen times when he was, or when someone else was, went either undetected or unproven or, in a couple of cases, punished or forgiven.
But she had a feeling that we were betraying her trust or whatever and that she couldn't handle us for another year after this, so, well, she gave up. We got Marko Bozon, the physics teacher, for that year. She also wanted to drop us from her class, let someone else teach us russian, but director wouldn't allow that, so she had to keep seeing us for the fourth year.
Her nickname among us was "Troskok" - triple jump, because of her entrance. She'd open the door and in three steps she was by her desk, lowering the logbook. She also blinked a lot, as if wearing ill fitting contact lenses (and this is before such lenses became common, that would be at least ten years later). She was a rusophile, of course (all russian teachers were), and whatever USSR did was good, and whatever was written in russian was a masterpiece.
As far as I know, she never married. She wasn't bad looking, but her manners would put anyone on guard. She spoke in fast sentences with breaks between, blinked while speaking (and while not), did some hand shuffle as if wiping her palms - pretty much all symptomps of serious stage fright. Having been in her boots ten years later, I still don't think she found a job which suited her character. She may be a perfect librarian or translator; for teaching she was so-so.
Few years later, I heard Bajče recount how he passed the russian exam in viša and she was the examiner. Most likely a non-event, i.e. nothing much happened, he probably passed with a six or seven and that was it. But just seeing each other like that must have been awkward. Because at the prom night, we of IV5pp completely ignored her. Nobody asked her for a dance.
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