The First Call

I called my friend Juan Henrique from Santo Domingo, and I was a bit worried that he would not understand my english, since he only has a basic understanding of the language (less than a year of experience). Anyways, I thought it would be a good idea to speak to him in english to already initiate the english learning. That did not work. So I spoke to him in spanish, but when he spoke back to me in Spanish I could not understand him because of his thick accent and the low volume of his voice; I also sensed a tone of frustration in his voice when I asked him to repeat himself a few times. I just hope he does not get frustrated with me when I am asking him to repeat his english the correct way. Anyhow, it took a few minutes and a good amount of repeating to finally come to the conclusion that we are going to meet on Sunday at 1PM in the Cafeteria. While I was talking to him, I wondered how he would recognize me, so I told him that I would be downstairs and that I have blond hair. He agreed, but did not sound very excited about the meeting, he was also worried about how many hours we would be meeting over the course of the semester; it sounded like he was intent on getting his 10 hours of instruction that he had requested on the form. I just hope that he is ready and open to learn the english language.