Conversation Partner – Meeting Eight (12/5/12)

            Well this is it…. the end of the course. The eighth meeting. Sort of bittersweet honestly. Alya and I planned to meet last Thursday; however, she had something come up. We rescheduled for Monday, but then I had something come up. Finally, on Wednesday, we met at our usual spot for our conversation. This meeting was different from the others though. Today, I had the privilege of meeting with Alya, as well as Mohammad, Alya’s husband.

            We did not talk about much new honestly. It was sort of a recap of all of our conversations because Alya’s husband kind of dominated the conversation. I was nervous that he was coming at first, but he turned out to be a nice person. His English is not as good as Alya’s, but we bonded over Hopdoddy and caramel and salt milkshakes. He thanked me profusely for helping them discover Hopdoddy. He told all of his friends about it and said many of them eat there every single day. It felt cool to be able to recommend someone to a restaurant and it become their absolute favorite. We talked again about their tests and plans for the future. Mohammad asked me a lot about my plans for basically the rest of my life, and I had to tell him I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do or major in. I’m only a sophomore; I still have time to figure it all out.

            This is not how I expected our last meeting to go down. It was sort of surreal but also very abrupt. I don’t know what I was expecting and looking back on it, I don’t see how anything except what happened would have happened. However, it still seemed a little weird. I hope I helped Alya with her English, and I hope she has a good life. I will most likely never see her again. Kind of weird to think about. Oh well… It’s been a great semester!