The Forgotten Blogs

I just realized I forgot to blog about my last few meetings with my conversation partner! Don’t worry; you are about to read an onslaught of blog posts. Sorry guys.

I met with Mohanad at the TCU Bookstore a couple of weeks ago, as usual.   We grabbed some coffee and settled in to have another conversation.  We started by catching up, because it had been a couple weeks since we have last spoken.  I asked him about his classes, and he has been really enjoying them.  He loves being able to make his English better and work on it here at TCU.  He is so grateful for this opportunity and I just kind of want to kick myself for taking it for granted.  Each time I speak with Mohanad, I am reminded of the fact that we are from such different parts of the world.  Our backgrounds are so different, and sometimes we don’t always see eye to eye.  Not in a bad way per se, but he just sometimes doesn’t understand or agree with some of the things that I say when he asks me questions.

During this conversation, he noticed that I look around a lot.  In my defense, I wasn’t really being rude, there was just a little lull in the conversation occasionally and I would look around.  I tend to do that often, but I’m usually with people who do this as well.  For example, we will be eating in the BLUU, and it is entertaining to basically watch what is going on around us.  So anyways, he finally followed my gaze and asked what I was looking at.  I laughed and apologized, and then explained that I wasn’t looking at anything specifically, that I was just “people watching.”  This concept really threw him off.  He was totally befuddled by the idea of just looking at people for entertainment.  I did my best to explain it to him, but it’s not really something that you can explain, to be honest.  It is a really weird concept if you think about it, so I understand why he was confused.

We also talked about food.  Great topic, right?  Any of us could talk about food for as long as necessary.  We all eat it and LOVE it.  Anyways.  I had asked Mohanad what he was going to do later, and he said he was going to eat dinner at the BLUU.  I groaned, and he told me how much he enjoys the BLUU.  I don’t necessarily enjoy eating at the BLUU in any way.  I just see it as food that I don’t have to cook.  He sees it as endless options of things to eat.  Typical boy.  But I guess he’s right.  There are so many options that I forget about since I usually eat the same thing every time.

This was a really great conversation with Mohanad as I remember it.  I’ll continue to blog about all of our meetings that I forgot to blog about.  I am really thankful for my good memory of our conversations!