The reason why Boygroups exist

Things always work that way in a small town suburban neighbourhood. One neighbour helps the other and everybody knows everything. A woman from across the road told my mother one day, when they met on the street: "My daughter just had another F in English. Do you know somebody who can help her?"
"What a coincidence," my mother answered, " my daughter is always getting As in English and she is looking for a job."

Not exactly the truth, but my mother wanted things to be that way.

So, I - 18 years old with a part time job, a boyfriend, a car and school work to do - was stuck with a 12-year old girl from across the street 3 hours a week - for 7 Euros an hour, I shouldn't complain.

The girl, I will call her Nadja because - honestly - I don't remember her real name, always gurned. When I tried to explain English grammar to her, she told me that she knew all this already and that she wasn't stupid.

Soon, I figured out what Nadja's problem was - she just did not study. Instead, she spent her time practising dancing or shopping - basically the same attitude I had had when I was 12. She told me that she did not see the point in studying English - she was going to be a famous dancer and there she would not need English.

I tried to tell her that if she wanted to be internationally famous, she needed to know English. I tried to play games with her to learn new words, I tried to make her write texts using the new words because that was a way my English teacher had got me to study new vocabulary. But nothing worked - she was stubborn and of the opinion that she could express herself with her dances, when she was be famous.

I was about to despair, but then I found out that she really liked the Irish boygroup Westlife. I asked her if she wanted to know what their songs were about. Of course, she said yes. So, I spent the next hours looking up Westlife lyrics on the Internet and translate them with her. That really got her into practising English and I realized that there is a purpose for everything in this world, even for boygroups.