My ESL partner finally showed up this time!
Although, he was fifteen minutes late.... Despite my slight frustration with
Christian's lack of punctuality, we ended up having a pretty good meeting. He
apologized for standing me up on our last meeting but I came to find out he had
a pretty good reason... He got engaged last week! The girl's name is Moranay
and they have been dating for 2 years. He is 29 years old and she is a 24 old psychology
major who graduated from UNT and plans on becoming a counselor. They originally
met through church (precious I know!) and he said that he knew as soon as he
met her that she was going to be the one. The proposal took place over a casual
dinner at Blue Mesa. He had flown his own father in from Mexico and had invited
Moranay's dad to dinner that night as well so that he could have their
blessings. They plan on getting married next April and both want a garden
wedding depending on the weather. What is funny is they had just been broken up
this previous December! He even remembered the exact date (December 8th), which
I thought was adorable and a little funny. What is even funnier is before they
broke up, Christian had just bought an engagement ring and was planning on
proposing to her! (He even returned the ring!) But after two months of
agonizing separation, they finally got back together and are as happy as ever.
He even unofficially invited me to the wedding! Both of his siblings are
married and he has both a niece and a nephew that he showed me multiple
pictures of. We found out that we are both the "middle child" in our
families. When I first told him, he said that I was "a ham". This
confused me at first but he then explained that middle children are like the
ham in between two pieces of bread of a ham sandwich. I asked him if he wanted
to have children and he said he wanted five. That seems like a big number to me
but he is planning on having three and adopting two and I think he will make a
great dad one day. He said that their relationship is very traditional and I
was impressed at the amount of respect he seemed to have for his fiance. He
hopes he will get to stay at TCU but is still waiting to see if he got this
scholarship he applied for. I also learned he cannot get FAFSA because he is
technically not a full, legal citizen right now but will be in two years. This
was my favorite meeting with Christian so far! It was only 45 minutes but I
felt like I got to know so much more about his family and culture. I hope the
next few meetings will be as successful and I look forward continuing to get to
know him better.
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