Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Conversation Partner Part One
My Conversation partner is named Jonathan, he is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and he is hilarious. I got Zhenya's email last Thursday and emailed Jonathan immediately exchanging numbers. What I was greeted with was someone who was immediately my friend regardless of the fact he had never met me. I recently looked through the texts we exchanged and can honestly say none of his have less than 3 exclamation marks. This type of excitement is not even shown to me by my mother except in rare occasions where I disappoint less than average. We managed to find a time where we were both free in between his busy schedule and mine of studying constantly. We met at frog fountain on Sunday and headed over to union grounds to chat. The first initial impression of him was "what accent is this?" I cleared this question up and heard how he may be the most interesting man I have ever met. As I explained above he is from DR Congo as is his father, however his mother is from Paris. He was born in Paris as well however moved to the DR Congo and lived there while he was young. I asked him if his home country is corrupt like most African country and he responded that it was. He said that his mother moved to Monaco and he alternated back and forth there because he has a french and DRC passport. He has lived in France, DRC, India as well as the USA. He relied a story to me about how the two weeks before school he packed his things in DRC on August 4th, went to France and saw his mom and left for India the 14 and was there was less than 8 hours before he left for Texas. According to him with all the time changes he technically lost 12 hours of time. He is very lively and talks nonstop about his adventures. He also texts me frequently and his texts make me laugh frequently with the amount of emotion he puts into them. I'm excited to see where this goes and wonder how my 6th entry will look compared to this one.
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Hi Ryan, thanks for the wonderful post about your first meeting. I know the first meeting is not always easy, but yours seemed like it went really well. I look forward to reading more.
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