Conversation #4:
Since I’ve been a little bit behind
in the blog posting, I have yet another update on the whole conversation
partner situation. As a reminder, my
conversation partner is Fernande. A 20-something year old (I believe 21… I
should probably know this by now) from the Democratic Republic of Congo. For my
own curiosity – since, I’ll be honest, I know virtually nothing about Geography
– I Googled where Congo is located, so I knew something a little bit more
specific then “Africa.”
A high-school teacher of mine had
once told me that you know someone’s from the Midwest if they like to talk
about the weather. Being form California, she said she rarely ever thought much
of the weather until she moved to Nebraska. Well, being that I am from the
Midwest, from a magical land called Omaha, Nebraska, more specifically, I have
to say I agree with that statement. I do quite enjoy talking about the weather.
To be fair though, I am from the land of changing weather. A quality that has
recently come to describe Texas. I am currently wearing a tank top while basking
in the pleasantry of air conditioning. Less than a week ago, however, I was
cursing the bitterness of the cold as I was wrapped in a fleece blanket
cranking up the thermostat. But anyways, I’m slightly off topic now. The point
was that I asked Fernande what he thought of this recent cold front, and he
described to me about how Congo had fairly one-note temperatures. Temperatures
for the most part ranged from lower 60s to upper 80s, your typical paradise. In
other words, Fernande was having a much harder time than I was adjusting to
this sudden freeze. It’s slightly embarrassing to admit, but honestly…we then
talked about weather for about 20 minutes. You might be wondering how someone
could possibly talk about something as dry as the weather for that long…but
leave it to us Midwesterners to get the job done. And if I find a conversation
topic that successfully leads to conversing as oppose to an interview type
setting, I roll with it. He then continued to show me pictures on his phone of
Congo and then his recent girlfriend, a junior at TCU. And that concludes the
most recent escapades of my conversation partner experience.
Kwaheri
(P.S: I felt cultural when writing
this, so I said Goodbye in Swahili)
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