Marissa_CP#4

Marissa M.
Conversation Partner Blog #4
9/24/2014

Wednesday night I met with Jesus again.  He had wanted to check out new places in Tallahassee and we had discussed beer and bars before.  So, I took him to the new Brass Tap at Midtown.  There they have many beers on draft as well as bottles.   Jesus was shocked at how many beers they had there!  He did not know where to start!  Generally he told me that he prefers to have dark beers - like Guiness - however, I was getting a seasonal beer and so he decided to try that. 

We both had the Shipyard Pumpking.  When ordering I found out that they do not have pumpkin in his country (Colombia).  I was surprised to learn this!  He did know what it was though after I showed him the picture.  In our conversation I had to explain how pumpkin is really a fruit, but seems to fit more in the vegetable category in my opinion.  We also discussed gourds and what they were.   Since you don't get a good taste of pumpkin in the beer I told him that I would make him pumpkin bread next week so he could try it and get a better pumpkin flavor.  I will be making that this weekend.

One interesting topic that I had to try and explain was what a lovebug was.  Single bugs were flying all around us, and I told him what the name was.  He then asked me why they were called that and noted that he always saw them stuck together instead.  I tried as best I could to explain they were called love bugs because they were usually in pairs.

Jesus is a mechanical engineer in his country.  A friend of mine who is working on his PhD at FSU comes from a family of engineers.  I invited him to meet us there for a few minutes.  This gave Jesus and my friend a chance to briefly talk about engineering.  But, honestly, the topic did not stay on that very long as he was more interested in talking about other things.

We talked more about his exploring Tallahassee and surrounding areas.  Our next trip I am going to see if the RA Gray museum is open at a good time for us to go, or possibly the Capitol.  That is my preference, but I'm not certain it will be open during the times we would be able to meet.  I did tell him he should make a trip up there to see it because that is neat to do in Tallahassee and he can say he has been to the Capitol of Florida.