Bobby_CP_#4

This past Wednesday I met my third conversation partner, Abdul. He speaks the best English out of my three conversation partners. He also seems more Americanized and “broey” than the others. He smoke cigarettes, goes to clubs, has girlfriends, and has adopted a YOLO attitude. He’s been in the US for a year, and according to him has been at the same level in CIES for five sessions. He said this is due to his lack of discipline and infrequent class attendance. In fact, classes didn’t seem to matter too much to him. I picked him up from his friends place and took him to an open mic night that I’d been wanting to check out. The place looked really sketchy, but the inside wasn’t very too bad. We sat and watched a band place some mediocre songs then a nervous girl gingerly sing some acoustic songs. Abdul didn’t seem to be too into it. I got a call from a friend inviting me to a bar, so I took the opportunity to do something that seemed more up Abdul’s alley. We left the open mic bar and went to Fermentation Lounge. When they check our I.D.’s at the bar they saw Abdul wasn’t 21 and asked him to leave. We disregarded her request and sat outside to wait for my friend to arrive. In the meantime we made small talk with a man who happened to be a good friend of Ramin. When my friend arrived we joined him and met a group of his friends who were already at the bar. After making our introduction a large bearded man showed up and loudly demanded that Abdul leave. To his credit, Abdul handled the situation coolly. After the situation had been defused we left and went to Café Shisha where we happened to run into my other two conversation partners and their friends. We all hung out together for a while until Abdul left with some other friends. I spent the rest of the night with Mohammad and Badah.