I am very excited to have more than one measly TP session. I met Bushra for the first time on Friday at the Global coffee hour extravaganza! She got there a little late, which was fine because I hung out with Catalina and was able to eat something and enjoy the music. Ramin, Cati and a band of renegade bongo players really livened up the place and it seemed that everyone was having a great time.
Bushra did not know that there was going to be such a hub-bub like that and apologized since it was a little hard to hear. We focused that time on learning about each other and finding out what she needs help with. She says she has only been learning English for 4 months. I think she is pretty amazing. She says she needs help being able to spell words that she has never seen written down and that she wants to work on her vocabulary and grammar.
Maybe coming from Miami where you can get by only with Spanish I have lower expectations of people. Most of these people would be able to live happy lives in Miami with the amount of English they know. It is so impressive how fast these people learn. It gives me hope for when I go to Colombia. I figure I already have a head start on that anyway.
We had planned on meeting today but she called me and told me that she was sick. So my quest to collect my TP sessions has been foiled again. But have no fear I still have high hopes of finishing on time(ish).
On a slightly unrelated note... Cati and I had a cultural adventure on Friday night that sampled a little of everything Tallahassee has to offer. We even commandeered this old man's popcorn. He was too busy groovin' and cruisin' too miss it. We met the most amazing woman with an incredible life story and then some drunk hippies too. Like I said, cultural adventure. Isn't that why we are all here?
popcorn? what popcorn?
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