Conversation Number 3!

Well, a month later the third conversation finally occurred!  I had attempted to contact Alex for 3 weeks with no response.  I thought I had scared him off or that I was just a really boring person to have to meet with.  Last Friday I randomly ran into him in the BLUU and so we talked!  He explained his phone wasn’t working so was unable to contact me.  He gave me his email address and we decided to meet as usual, Wednesday afternoon at 2pm at Union Grounds.

Being ignored for three weeks really worried me!  I was just hoping that I hadn’t actually scared Alex off and that he would show up for our meeting.  2:00 hit and he hadn’t arrived; 2:02 and he still wasn’t there.  But at 2:03 he came strolling into Union Grounds and boy was I relieved!  We began our conversation with the student favorite topic of Fall Break.  Alex stayed at TCU of course, but said his favorite event of the long weekend was going to Six Flags.  He really enjoyed the rollercoasters, which apparently scared his friends a little.  I asked him what his favorites were, but he did not know the names of the rides; he was only able to describe them based on the color.  Luckily, I am a Six Flags, rollercoaster loving person and knew exactly which rides he was referring to.  Alex is used to rollercoasters, as there are many amusement parks in China which he would frequent.

Also over Fall Break, Alex made some authentic Chinese food.  He made his favorite dish from home that his Grandma would always make.  I learned that his grandparents are actually farmers and all that they grow and raise, which was very interesting.  Alex told me that he wishes there was farm land around here, as that is something he thinks of when he thinks of America, but has yet to see;also, seeing farmland would make him feel more at home.  His grandmother cooks with wine a lot, so he said the dish he made this weekend wasn’t quite the same without the wine; darn American 21-and-over drinking laws.  This discussion of food he made led to us talking about food in general for the duration of our time together.  We talked mainly about vegetables and the food that is available in the BLUU.  Needless to say, I left our conversation extremely hungry for food and excited for our next conversation.