Richard -- CP #10 -- My last meeting with RuiTing

As this was my last time meeting Ruiting, it would have been downright unacceptable to do so playing Scrabble or computer games. So we instead made plans to go to the international dinner and end it with a night at the carnival, which was at the student union.

Elizabeth Vargas and my friend Keith came along to enjoy the food and the music. Each were delicious! I had some pasticio, which happened to be my favorite meal that night -- it is so darn good!

We 4 had a blast, and I'm glad the night ended on a high note.

At the dinner, Rita came by and I greeted her with a hug and she greeted us with some pumpkin bread and salad from her garden. It too was delicious. Rita, Ruiting, Elizabeth, Keith and I talked about what our plans were for the summer. It's a sort of bittersweet feeling. We're all going our separate ways but I have no doubt that we will all find success in what we achieve to do. Ruiting plans to come back and enroll at TCC. We TEFL-ers plan to go to our prospective countries to teach English. I was quite happy for Rita because that night she had submitted her CV to three schools in Europe and Mexico.

I'll be submitting my CV in May, so I hope there's some success!

Also at the dinner, I met one of the German CIES students (Chantal?) and we spoke a bit of German with each other. I'm horrible with my Deutsch and she understood nothing I said, so we went back to English. I didn't know where Ruiting was at this point, but I was too involved in all the other things going on: the awards ceremony, the music, etc.

At this point I also forgot about the carnival and when I suddenly remembered it, I kindly requested that we leave for the carnival before it closed, so we all left.

Ruiting and I "rock-climbed" and we had such a good time. We also played a game at one of the concessions and we both won!!! It was very thrilling because I never win anything and I shared my award with Ruiting. We won some beads, and I didn't have to lift my shirt up to get them.

We also went to Breakfast for a Buck and had some "eggs and bakey"

By then it was 12am and I was mad tired, so to depart, we took some pictures and we all hugged each other for the last time before I left.

It was a joy having Ruiting as a CP, and I wish him all the luck with his future endeavors.