Because it's so close to Thanksgiving, Paula and I obviously had a conversation about what our plans were for the break! She is planning to stay here in Fort Worth for the week, while I am going back home to Houston. She asked if my parents were excited and I told her about how my mom can't help but overfeed me every time I come home.
We talked a little bit about how she is hoping to go home to Columbia for Christmas, but she is not sure if she can right now. I'm really hoping she can because I can tell it is something she really wants. She's been working super hard all semester and she definitely deserves to get to see her family again after such a long time.
She was also telling me about how she wants to improve her English so that she can get to go to college and become a dental hygienist. Once she does, she is planning on working with her husband, who is a dentist here in Fort Worth. This is the first time she had ever told me about why she is wanting to learn English (besides the fact that she lives in an English-speaking country), so it was great that I learned that about her.
This conversation is very interesting to me. My conversation partner and I talked about the Winter break too and he stated that he might see his family in the US but that he did not want to return home for the break. He is from Saudi Arabia where, he told me, he would be very bored and have to work on his company. It is interesting to see how the students from different parts of the globe react to the possibility of going home for the breaks.
ReplyDeleteMy conversation partner also misses home his family in Iran very badly, and I feel bad that I get to see my family so often while he has not seen his family for years. My conversation partner also wants to improve his English in order to apply to TCU's business school. Therefore, I found your post to be very relatable because it brings up a lot of similar issues that I have encountered.
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