I was given an ESP (English for Special Purposes) assignment at the Politechnika Rzeszowska. My studio apartment in the faculty dormitory on campus had this beautiful view of the Aviation Building. My students told me that this building was an ideal example of socialist architecture. It was like a sauna in warm weather and like an icebox in the winter. On the positive side, I could walk to all of my classes. On the negative side I had very little privacy since my students could always find me and a crew of rather maternal receptionists monitored my comings and goings.