So this is a strange one. I met with Faisel early in the morning on Saturday to go to St. George Island. I was planning on driving, but my car stalled on me on the way to CIES, so I went home after dropping off Mikael (my other tutoring partner). Faisel calls me and asks why I'm not going to the beach. "My car isn't working," I say. "No problem", Faisel responds. "I have a car, why don't you ride with us." Alright.
I get picked up, when I tell everybody in the car (I assume they like soccer) so I say "hey, the champions league final is today. It's at 3 O'clock. But we'll be at the beach, so we'll probably miss it." This was tantamount to saying that the Hindenburg just exploded. They stopped the car, and explained to me that had they known this, they wouldn't have agreed to go. We had been driving for an hour already, and we were actually closer to St. George than Tallahassee, but that did not matter. They turned the car around and drove back. We never actually made it to the beach, nor did we go over the finer points of English.
Probably a useless meeting and blog, but I can only report the facts.
HA! This is hysterical. And I don't think useless at all! For one thing, you spent two hours chumming it up in the car with new friends. Isn't that the point of having conversation partners? Plus, two hours is longer than some of my meetings. And hey, you learned a bit about their priotities, which are clearly not nautical!
ReplyDeleteI don't think that this was a pointless meeting at all. You learned more about their culture and priorities which is one of the ultimate goal of the process is it not? It's great to be able to learn from your partners just as they learn from you. For this meeting you just learned more about the importance of soccer in their culture. Plus like Sarah said, I'm sure the car ride gave you plenty of opportunity to chat.
ReplyDeleteYou know, there are TVs at St. George restaurants as well....jajajaj ;)
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