Tony CP#11

It took some effort but I finally met up with Bamba to chat. We met at Stroizer and he brought his younger brother along. Turns out he's from the Ivory Coast. I was expecting to hear maybe Arabic or some African language when he interpreted what I was saying to his brother but to my surprise I realized that he was speaking French. He's not here to learn English he told me but rather to study finance. None of us were expecting it to be as cold as it was and was the topic of conversation as we walked quickly back towards my warm apartment. When we got back we went to the living room and began to chat after I offered them tea. He told me that he has difficulty meeting American friends and wanted to know how he should go about doing so. Also he was interested in campus jobs and where I could go work out. I tried to explain all of this a best as I could giving him websites and directions and so forth. As were about to part I asked him if he could help me with my video presentation tomorrow, to which he replied that he will see.