CP4

On Sunday, January 13 I met my new conversation partner, Mubarak, at Starbucks on Tennessee. He was late, but he told me it was because he had been at the hospital getting flu shots with his roommate. I learned that he knows Anwar from CIES. Mubarak told me a little bit about himself: he wants to study chemical engineering at one of several universities, he has some 30-odd camels back in Kuwait, and he wants me to introduce him to American girls. Cool guy! He likes sports, especially European soccer leagues, but also likes to bowl and play ping pong. I may try to get him to branch out and play ultimate and do some cycling or swimming, but perhaps hiking would be the best place to start. We were showing each other pictures on our phones and I installed the Arabic keyboard, which incidentally changed the language of my entire phone to Arabic. Thankfully Mubarak switched it back right away. We talked a bit about potential future activities, such as bowling or billiards, and then called it a night. I gave him a ride back to Grand Marc from Starbucks. People from Kuwait seem very friendly, I'm excited to have new friends from foreign lands!