Today and I Linda and I met for a cup of joe at the library. It seems like I have been spending all my time here and she decided to join me for a nice chat. To be honest, I definitely needed the break, I had been staring at my computer working on a project for my design class for the past four hours without a break. While chatting about our busy weeks and the semester coming to a close, we shared many laughs. She shared her mixed feelings about the end of the year being around the corner.
She, like many college students, misses her family and is ready to return home to China to see everyone. However she is still quite stressed about school and finals and having to pack everything up and move out of her dorm. She said she was excited to live in the Grandmarc apartments next year and hopes to be able to live in a house the next year. She was excited to hear that I lived in Grandmarc this past year and had plenty of questions for me.
The more we talked about moving, the more we thought about when me first moved here. We shared our stories of saying farewell to our families and getting ready to move on in our lives. I know that when I came to college I sort of new what to expect, however, Linda did not expect as much as I did. She was still quite excited to be attending a school here in America.
I continued to mention my plans for summer, which involve a full time paid internship, and asked what hers were. She is traveling a lot to visit family and friends. We then got to talking about jobs and working. She said she was interested in looking for a job. I asked her what kind of things she want to do. She said that she wants to work in banking one day or something else in accounting. However, she said that right now she would be fine working at some sort of fast food restaurant or really any other restaurant.
We somehow got on the topic of primary schools, middle schools, and high schools. We shared stories of how we were as kids. She said she was quite shy as a child and pretty to herself. I confessed that I too was shy at first. However, I was usually quick to break out of my shell and was pretty social. She said she never really liked going to school because it was boring, but I disagreed. I enjoyed going to school to see my friends. We agreed that our school environments were quite different.
After a nice long break from my school work, I needed to get back. We said our goodbyes until next time!
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