Musings with Mr. Moreno (Part 4)

We're rapidly coming up on the end of the semester, so expect multiple posts in the next two weeks covering my meetings with Edinson. Thankfully, he is both accomodating and a pleasure to meet with, making life easy for me. Today we met for the fourth time, once again in the BLUU for lunch.

Edinson reminded me moments after sitting down with his lunch that he and the orchestra were performing Thursday night. The TCU orchestra has a concert in Ed Landreth Hall on Thursday night at 7:00, if any of my readers are interested! Free admission for all!

Shameless plug for Edinson's performance aside, today's conversation mostly covered Edinson's english. Edinson's english literacy test is next week, and he seems to be a bit nervous. I assured him that his english is much better than he thinks, and that he's become much more fluent in the past month and a half (Which is true. Rarely did we have a miscommunication over the past two meetings, while the first two were ripe with misunderstandings). He also complained multiple times throughout the meeting at how unfair the test format seems. According to Edinson, the passages from which the questions are drawn are conversations between students that are subject-specific; that is, they cover medicine, or greek mythology, or other subjects that are not common in the everyday english language and are not prevalent in learning the language.

Edinson stayed at TCU over the break, but was not alone on Thanksgiving. He explained that his orchestra conductor, who also happened to be from Columbia, invited he and a few other orchestra members to his house for Thanksgiving dinner. I inquired about the types of food that were present, as Edinson and I had discussed Thanksgiving food at our past meeting. Edinson said that he enjoyed the turkey, but it wasn't his favorite food. He claimed that his favorite food was the sweet potato dish that his host offered up, excitedly telling me that I was right when I told him how delicious it was at our past meeting.

After telling him I was running short on time, Edinson requested that I help him study before his english test next week. I divulged that I was more than happy to help, and we now have a meeting set for tomorrow night. More to come on the english test tomorrow!