Catherine_CP_#3

Today I met Meshari at the mall. He was funny and very excited, almost to the point of being goofy. We talked for a long time about his home in Kuwait and his friends and family. He wants to study civil engineering in San Diego, but he needs to pass the TOFEL first, and he has already failed twice. He said the hardest part for him is the reading and writing sections. He has been studying hard and is going to Tampa next weekend to take the test again. His English was pretty good, but he paused and said "Um" a lot, and a few times had to ask me if what he had just said was correct, which it wasn't. His mistakes were all very small, and I explained to him as best as I could why the correct way was correct. Meshari told me about all of the places he has been to and I told him about mine, and we were actually both in Germany this summer! He told me how boring he found Tallahassee, so I told him about a few cool places like FSU Rez, Tallahassee Museum to zip line and see animals, and he was very interested in FSU campus rec, with all the sports clubs like fishing, and the groupx classes at the Leach, especially CrossFit classes. He asked me if I thought he was fat, which he was not even close to being, and he told me he wanted a smaller waist. He said he doesn't like playing sports but he does like running to stay fit. Overall I had a good time talking to him and we plan to meet again next Monday.