Meeting number 7 with Harry

*My original post was saved over by 8th meeting post, so I'm rewriting this*

Harry and I planned to meet at our usual Tuesday time slot of 2:00 at the Barnes and Noble. Unfortunately, for Harry he couldn't meet at 2 and moved our time slot to 5:00. That definitely changed my plans up for the day, since my days are usually so filled with meetings and lately, interviews for this and that.

I came into our meeting a bit late and flustered and sat down so out of breath. He knew that I was definitely struggling a bit and asked me what was going on. I explained to him that these past few weeks have been more than exhausted with projects, meetings and interviews for potential internships I'm just at a total peak as to how busy one can be and have plateaued since I've reached that spot. He felt for me but still didn't quite understand. He only is taking about 9 hours and had nothing but projects to deliver for his finals, which he even claimed were easy. Today, he had just given his final presentation for one of his English classes about himself and he was ready to head home.

I, once again, asked about home for him and today his response was more than enthusiastic about going home. He's really beginning to get excited about heading home to his friends and family, although he's still not thrilled about the traveling to Australia and he's decided not to fly to Denmark. What's really got him excited for home was the food. I absolutely felt for him there. Having studied abroad in London this past summer and being there for a month, I had left behind me fajitas, briscuit, refried beans and a variety of other tex-mex, San Antonio goodness behind in the United States. I came across numerous places that took their own twist on my culture's food or they obviously hadn't had authentic food native to South Texas and made the food into their idea of what it would taste like. Harry explained to me that in China the food is a bit fresher, and more focused on chicken instead of red meat. Here everything is deep friend, and while he's not against the food here, he really wants to get back to the food he has grown up with, and speaking of that, he scoffed at the idea of Chinese food here. It's nowhere near as good as it is in China, and he's only found one place that comes close to it here in Fort Worth, but the one thing he has found that he likes are chicken wings... I laughed and said that was interesting choice out of all foods he could like in America.

After a long discussion of foods, Harry got me thinking of food myself and realized I hadn't eaten that day. I told him I had a meeting to get to, so I could grab some lunch beforehand, and we left it off there. Until Thursday, Harry!