Harry and I met on Tuesday at around 1:00PM, which seems to be the only time the he and I don't have a conflicting moment in the day. We found ourselves sitting in out in front of the Barnes and Noble tables, once again. I was starving this day, so I suggested we move this conversation to Dutch's for a burger; He seemed happy to come along with me!
Of course, I'm the only who is actually ordering food. I find it quite awkward when I'm the only eating at any sort of event. So as I wait for my food we begin to chat about how are week has been. Harry he seems to constantly be busy with school, because for the 3rd time he's told me that he has multiple one-on-one meetings with his professor in the coming week. It seems that ESL students really have the opportunity to have personal meetings with their professors, but I'm just assuming that they're more like "check-ins" that provide them information as to how they're progressing through their requirements and what not, I'll ask him about it on our next meeting.
Once my burger arrived, we began discussion about what makes each other laugh. He didn't quite seem to know why I was asking this question, I told him about what our class was about centered around and he started to grasp the concept of what he thinks is funny. He's amused by many things: jokes, television and movies. All very general answers, so I decided to delve just a bit deeper and ask specifically what aspects of each of his answers made him laugh. He didn't really have an answer for jokes besides the fact that jokes are usually funny, we shared a bit of an awkward laugh about that. Entertainment media, however, definitely seemed have more depth behind it. I can't remember the name of his favorite actor, but he was quite obsessed with this certain comedian and he had a passion for various films that I had never heard of.
As conversation began to die down, I asked his plan for his Thanksgiving break. He was heading to Miami with his girlfriend and some friends. He laughed about no plans on seeing his family until much later into the winter. I asked him where is girlfriend went to school and she's in school a smaller liberal arts school in the Mid-West. I thought it was remarkable that he was able to keep connection and an emotional relationship with his girlfriend through the process of moving to America and attending different schools, I don't think I could even do that. However, they've been together for almost a year and he likes her quite a bit. I laughed a bit and told him I was pretty jealous of his love, and he scoffed right back at me and said I could a get girlfriend no problem. We both started laughing a bit and I said, it's a bit harder than you think to just get into a relationship, but he has quite a bit of confidence in me to get myself into a relationship.
It was at the end of our relationship talk that I had to end our conversation for a meeting I had early in the afternoon. I bid him farewell and told him we would meet again after Thanksgiving.
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