Friday, January 29, 2010

"Strawberry Hamburgers" - cp session 3

For real. That's what my CP says he likes on his hamburgers. His English is very beginner and sometimes he's says things that contradict things he said earlier. It turns out it was just the um, "beginner-language" talking. Like he said he never eats pork. I'm cool with that. I had another Korean friend who never ate it etiher. Plus I know Christianity is big in Korea and I thought maybe it was an early Christian "pork is dirty" thing. You know like in Islam and Judaism. But a few minutes later he's talking about sausage and ribs and I'm like, "Wait. You do know that's pork right?" He's like, "Duh. Of course I know that." It turns out what he was trying to say earlier was that he doesn't eat with a fork.

But what this means to me is that he is not to be trusted. No really. It means I have to be very, very clear and ask similar questions and elicit slightly different responses. All in the interest of having a conversation. I almost didn't believe him when he said he puts strawberry jam on his hamburgers seeing as how we just finished the pork/fork conversation. I said, "strawberry" and proceeded to act out strawberry. He was firm. That's what he said. That's what he meant. I laughed very loud. Not really at him but at the interestingness of this notion. I may have to try it.

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