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The author studied Russian in London in the late 1960's and longed to work in Russia. Nearly thirty years later, she was offered a job teaching English in a school in Moscow. Whe took this position and lived in Moscow as a Russian. This book is a vivid account of the way things are done in a Russian school at atime when Russia itself is in transition. Old ways run parallel with new Western inspired methods, and the outlooks of different generations are more than ever on opposite tracks. The book does more than explore the educational system. Above all the author attempts to couunteract the horror stories which appear in the Western media by describing the life of a school, its pupils, its staff and of many other ordinary Russians in their endeavor to lead a normal life in very difficult conditions.