My First Arabic Lesson

This morning I attended my very first Arabic lesson. First, I had to get accross town to the school that I've only been to once. I knew exactly where it was, the hard part was telling a taxi driver in Arabic how to get there. But we made it with no problems and right on time. Since I've been here almost 2 months, I knew most of the first lesson, basic greetings, my name is, etc. On the way home, I got into a taxi and the guy started speaking really fast in Arabic. All I caught was 'where are you from?' and so pulled out my notes from the lesson and read my response in broken Arabic 'I am from America. I have been here for more than 1 1/2 months'. After the guy finished watching me read this statement to him for some reason, he thought that I could speak to him. So he goes off saying something about coming to America, asking about my family, if I have children or am married....and then he starts proposing!!! Not the whole down on one knee kind of thing, but saying that we can go to America and live with my family. Between what I could understand and the sign language that he was using, it was clear that this was my first official Arab marriage proposal. Since I don't know a whole lot of Arabic, all I could say was 'No,I don't want' but he kept going on and on. In hindsight, I should have answered 'bukra insha'allah' (tomorrow if it is God's will, or more realistically, it's never gonna happen)....Maybe next time.