Olumayowa CP-3

After our tutoring session, Aadl and I went to Pitaria to grab some dinner before we split up. It's an American restaurant but the food is still very Middle Eastern because of the Mediterranean grocery store connected to it. Their hummus is really creamy and the olives are so rich and tasty. We talked a lot about food and restaurants from the Middle East, I told him about the culture lesson in my Arabic class where the teacher showed us how restaurants in Lebanon will serve you a table full of entree fruits, baba ghanoush, grape leaves, tabouli, hummus, etc. before you even order food. Slowly, all my TPs/CPs from the Middle East are realizing that a pivotal reason that I really want to go there is to eat their awesome food. He says that he'll make me Kabsa (rice mixed with lots of stuff) so I guess I'll have to make something very Nigerian for him like Egusi soup, I'd make some American cuisine but Aadl is surprisingly caught up on American news because he had a lot to say about "Pink Slime" (lol!).
We started talking about his time in Florida and got to the subject of roller coasters and how terrified we both are of them, though we will ride them under enough peer pressure. I made the mistake of telling him about my friend Mahmoud who came to FSU from Egypt last fall with the intention to go skydiving before going home because it is so cheap in Florida (which he did with our very own Zachary Backes), so now Aadl wants me to take him skydving, which I will never ever do. My feet belong on the ground or in water, and never ever falling from the sky. I am willing to go to a theme park with him though, where I guess we will become more comfortable with each other when he has heard me screaming like a child.

While eating, we wasted  lot of napkins writing down vocabulary words since we were translating them for each other and then I unsuccessfully tried to hold a conversation with him in Arabic but I just broke the barrier (in getting over my nerves and trying to speak) and should not be trying to be perfect immediately. Aadl is actually very patient with me and tries to figure out what I'm trying to say before I correct him,while others normally just tell me that I'm doing great, he gives me very honest feedback. By the time we meet again I'd like to have a way to keep and review the new vocabulary that he taught me, maybe in a tiny notebook or a set of flashcards.