Will Stone - CP 5

 

I went to meet Yasmina again at the same time and place on Thursday like we agreed upon previously. I called her and she told me that she was out of town and that we would reschedule our meeting for Tuesday. Sure enough, Tuesday rolled around and she was at our predetermined meeting spot. She was on the phone again and waved at from a distance, finishing the phone call as I walked up to greet her. She was still working out paperwork for her transferal; today it was getting her insurance information together for her transfer. She then explained that the reason that she missed our previous meeting was due to the fact that she took an extended weekend trip to Panama City Beach with her roommates. They apparently spent the weekend lounging on the beach and drinking. She informed me that this was the first time she had been to the beach since moving to the United States.  She said she needed a break from her job and the process of filing applications for law school as well as the extended paper work required for her insurance and updating her student visa, all on top of having to prepare for several interviews with her future professors. She told me that she had an interview today and that she couldn’t hang out for very long today. I understood and wished her luck, and told her if she needed any help preparing to let know. It’s hard for to imagine having to manage so many different tasks all while being so far away from her family and living in country where she was still in the process of learning the language. We made arrangements for out next meeting to be in the CIES lounge and we parted ways.