Learning English on the side

Babcia was determined to learn English.  Every time her family went to Green Bay she would pick literature written in English.  This is when her obsessive behavior known as "hoarding" began.  She would pick up not just one English newspaper. Oh, no she would pick up three of the exact same newspaper.  Of course, she could not yet read English so she thought they each said different things.  The more times they traveled to Green Bay, the more literature she would pick up.  She only weighed 89 lbs but she sure could carry that in weight of English based newspapers.  She was addicted.  Hiding them in her coat, she was sure nobody was on to her evil plan to convert all her Polish speaking family, friends and neighbors to English speakers.  She had mission and damn it she was going to succeed.  Her closet became so full of English literature that she figured she better start to learn how to read everything.  She did not know where to turn.  Then one day she thought, "I bet the nuns at Saint Stanislaw's know English."  It was like a light dinged in her head.  Of course her given name was Lucia,"Lucy" in English, meaning light, and it started to flicker like it had never flickered before.  She was ready for the next brave step.