Ali-CP #4

I had dinner with Jennifer, her conversation partner Biou, and Biou’s friend Wen bo. I had invited Mandy, but she had previous plans with one of her friends at Alumni Village. Jen and I picked up the girls from Alumni Village and had planned on taking them to a restaurant for dinner because it was around 6pm, but they told us that they had already been eating and weren’t hungry. Jen and I were hungry so we wanted to take them somewhere that we could hang out still but get a bit of food as well. We meant to go to The Winery and Tapas at Midtown, but didn’t know that the management had changed and so the entire restaurant was different. We decided to stay and try something new together. The restaurant was pretty empty because an FSU game was still playing and we figured it would fill up later. We ended up ordering several appetizers to share and actually liked the food! J We were able to talk to the girls a bit, and tried to keep the conversation going, but there were some spaces that were fairly silent, mainly due to us eating! After dinner we were going to walk to The Cupcakey, but it was closed in observance of September 11^th. So, we went to Lake Ella and walked around the lake and took pictures. They taught us the Chinese word for crane and friend, and we had fun with learning different words and phrases from each other.