First session with Cam

Our first session was kind of difficult because of our schedules, it is funny that when he was free to meet us, I was busy with classes or with homework and vice versa, when I was free he was busy.

We were about to look for a new partner but finally we had de opportunity to meet on Zoom. He looks like a nice guy, polite and cool. Then he started to talk super-fast, well, faster than the way I am used to listen to my classmates or professor. We talked about our countries, our “special” holidays, pets, and school. It was so nice and cool knowing more about United States culture. Also, we do almost the same thing when we want to speak a foreign language: we kind of translate what we want to say and, in that process, we change the modal or structure of the sentence in order to make it sound right or have some kind of sense.

One thing that is pretty interesting is one special holiday or day. He told me about Boston and how this city has one particular party to celebrate the winner of a sports team. They even make parades just to celebrate a team, something that here in Mexico really doesn’t happen, the most familiar party it is when the fans start yelling on street and take their shirts off, something really, but really strange imo.

Also I really liked that we could talk about our daily routine. Thanks to this topic I could understood that he is really busy during the day and, on weekends, he take a rest and do homework, that answer the question about why we couldn’t meet earlier and why he have so different schedules.

One of the most interesting things about him is that the navy is paying/giving him a scholarship, the only requirement is to serve the navy for almost 6 years and then he can work whatever he wants.

It was nice to finally meet Cameron, hope to see him soon!