After class I went to the library to put things on reserve. Walking fast for exercise in 50F weather – “cold” for here – I passed a woman near my age who was also on her way to the library but who was walking more slowly, talking on her cell phone.
“That is excellent,” she said in accented English. “Now what I need you to do is take those clothes and put them in the dryer. You have 50 minutes, because I will be there in 50 minutes. If the clothes are dry, we can play a videogame.”
When she hung up I was ahead, but she came on up and it turned out she was my student. I had been thinking I was hearing a random conversation but this was actually someone who had just given a presentation in my class.
At the library she went to check e-mail and I went to meet with my other student, the veteran. He can only learn foreign languages by immersion so we meet regularly at the library café where I immerse him for 15 minutes.
Then I went to the class I take to say I could not stay because I had too much else to do. Really it was that I was too tired to be diplomatic in their Christian conversation.
“Working on foreign languages, that is what you do,” they said. “You do not think as people think here, and you should embrace that. We look forward to seeing you again.”
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I don’t get this conversation your student was having at all. Who could she have been talking to? I just can’t imagine a situation where this could take place.
She was talking to her teenaged son whom she had employed to do laundry and clean the house. He doesn’t get to play video all the time, and she was going to let him play one as a reward for doing the laundry.