A Rather Comedic Lunch Break

     Mohammad was once again surrendered upon his will to talk to me while I scarfed down my lunch, due to our busy class schedules. He kindly reassured to me that it was not a problem as I indulged in a high quality meal purchased from the library cafe. I failed to mention one small detail to Mohammad prior to beginning our conversations several weeks ago. I notified him that I was blogging about the conversations we were having for my literature and civilization class. He was both shocked and amused that I was writing about our exchange in dialogue and excited to know that people in the blogging world may actual read my posts. Taking pride in his remark I didn't mention that "the people in the blogging world" most likely consists of only my professor and a few other students in the class.
     After learning a lot about Saudi Arabia and his culture, I was curious to ask him what American TV shows and movies he thought were funny. He quickly blurted out the words. "How I met Your Mother!" Seeing as though I do not watch the show, the only relation we could agree on was that it helped him with the English language while also experiencing an abundance of laughter. Hoping that I had seen the movie he was about to describe as his favorite, funniest American movie I moved on to ask him what it was.  "Hmmm the funniest movie is definitely Project X." I begin to laugh for a while as I thought oh no, this is how he probably pictures the stereotypical high school student. I couldn't help but agree that it was a funny movie, I must admit I laughed uncontrollably throughout the entire movie. I was really interested to ask why he thought the movie was so great. Mohammad answered that question without any hesitation. "The parties of course!" I couldn't help but laugh because for a kind, easy going guy I could sense his love to rage and "have a good time." I agreed that the party depicted in the movie was pretty epic, but commented that I would never want to have that at my personal house because everything would be destroyed. "So what," he replied "as long as I have fun it's all good!" If I had to guess, I'd say that having a similar party is most likely on Mohammad's bucket list.
     I asked him to describe the plans and events that would occur if he were to have his own Project X party. "If it were in Saudi, it would be in the desert with big tents, there would be lots of girls, and I would play loud music all night long." I asked him to play an excerpt from a song he would play and all I can say is that it was very different from American party music. He enjoys music with a good beat and shared his interest in Kayne West, Bruno Mars, Avril Lavigne, Def Leppard, and Lil' Wayne. Rest assured he has a wide variety of American music he is exposed to. He made certain to mention that guys would wear jeans and a shirt and not the formal attire they typically wear on Fridays and special occasions.
     I always like to end with asking him how his classes are coming along. He was slightly overwhelmed with the research paper we discussed last Friday because he did not work on it over the weekend as he had planed. Frantically he asked for help on APA citations and how to create a work cited page. I should him the helpful resources on Microsoft Word and he was beyond grateful. As our conversation came to close I informed him that his fictional Project X party was bound to be a memorable event and I expect an invitation. Our conversation about comedic movies was by far the highlight of my day.
     See ya next Tuesday Mohammad!