Jennifer- CP04- 9/13/10

This afternoon I was supposed to pick up Biou so that we could get some coffee and talk. However, when I got to CIES I ended up picking up Biou and her friend Alan and they were both very hungry so we ended up at Panera. When we got to the restaurant Alan asked if we could have a few minutes to go over the menu before they went up to order. We ended up spending a good 15-20 minutes going over the menu and all the different options they had. They had a few questions about some of the different words used on the menu (tangy, the different types of chicken, etc), but once they knew what they wanted they had no trouble ordering for themselves.

I actually had a lot of fun talking with Alan and Biou as we all ate together. Biou and I went through our normal routine of naming all the ingredients in our food, but this time I had her go through and tell me what she knew first. We got on a discussion of fruits, trying to guess what the fruit was by giving each other hints. Alan was trying to get me to figure out a special fruit that they ate back in China but I couldn’t figure it out even though he described it in every way possible (I did some research and found that it was the hawthorn fruit). We also got on a discussion as to what each of our names meant. Alan’s name means “big snow,” Biou’s name means “blue/green seagull” and I told them that mine means “white wave.” Biou really liked the fact that both of our names had a color and had something to do with the beach. The next time we’re going to meet up is for the Mid Autumn Festival at FSU this weekend where Biou is going to preform. I'm really excited to see what she's been working so hard on these past few weeks!