Harry and I Meet ... Again! Oct. 12

Our second conversation took place outside of Starbucks. Very much passed our awkward greetings, we said "Hello!" enthusiastically to one another and began conversation very quickly. This week our topic seemed to linger on getting to understand more on a personal level and his perceptions of TCU and Fort Worth.

Harry personally loves Fort Worth and finds himself at home here. He's made quite a few friends while only being here for less than a year and being from a completely foreign country, at that. Not that it's surprising that he has friends, but that he has such a tight knit group of friendships that seem to have developed so quickly. He lives in an apartment down the road that he thoroughly loves because he has such great roommates and he has a place to call his own - which Harry seems to love his newfound freedom here.

Speaking of home, Harry defines Fort Worth as his new home. He thoroughly enjoys the fact that he is living in this new city and finds the culture so different from China. Apparently most food in China is made from chicken or white meat and is not nearly as deep fried as the food we have here. The taste of burgers and other food in Fort Worth is good, he says, but he prefers the taste of food from home. He implied that he prefers the lighter taste of the food from home.

His discussion of food from home got me thinking... What what his opinion on the chinese food in America? Harry laughed at my comment saying that it definitely does not compare to what he has back home. He's found only one restaurant that has decent chinese-style food.

I noticed he was reading a book, if only I could remember the title of the book, but it looked very strange for him to be reading such a book about American economics. I asked what he was reading and he looked at me with a bit of disgust. It was a book he had to read in order to complete his English as a second language course. He honestly had no idea why they had to read it, but he understand most of it, thankfully. I flipped through the novel a bit and saw he highlighted some lines that he didn't quite grasp and most were sarcastic lines of humor which, needless-to-say, I was surprised to find in a book about economics.

Well, as we finished our discussion about his economic book I noticed I had another meeting to get to. We said our farewells and promised we'd meet again soon.