Jackie CP2

After much trying to meet up with me being sick this weekend, Fatih and I finally got to have lunch! He was a gentleman and bought me Pitaria, which was extremely nice. I told him it was not necessary, but I felt like it was customary or traditional for him to purchase the meal--so I told him I would get his next time. My roommate Samantha came along for lunch, which was interesting to see Fatih interact with another person and how much he could understand from our conversation. It seems easy to fall into the trap of talking extremely slowly and gramatically 'short'? with someone who doesn't speak your language, but I tried my best to be clear and precise instead of shortening our conversation to something that wasn't full sentences. Fatih said he has a problem with creating a precise sentence, which I told him was of course important, but that he speaks so much, with so much rapidity, is extremely surprising! I have met other foreigners who would hold back instead of saying things for the sake of saying them, especially when they know they would be incorrect. But Fatih launches into drawn out stories, while constantly correcting himself for either accuracy or clarity. Of course, I told him sometimes I don't understand what he is trying to say, so I would ask questions. Yet, most of his overall meaning comes across--and what is the point of communication at all if not that? After much hilarious discussion of his weekend at the clubs, where extremely weird things seem to happen to people who don't exactly know what everyones trying to say, especially whilst intoxicated, we (me and my roommate) invited Fatih to the movies tomorrow. So, we'll be seeing Bridesmaids, which I'm not sure he was so excited about, hah! but we'll see.