I sit in the first row, second seat on the end in Biology. The girl who was supposed to sit by me moved, but a day later a new student joined us, he sat in her old seat. When I sat down by him I said, "Hi, my name is Kaitlin!" with a warm smile. He replied, "My name is Rashvir! Nice to meet you." He then offered his hand for me to shake. I thought this was really cool because nobody has ever shaken my hand at school before. He then smiled and said, "I just came from India!" He has a really strong accent so it's hard for me to understand him, so I have to ask him to repeat himself alot, which is probably annoying after awhile. We talk alot, and today we had a really good conversation, it went like this:
Rashvir: Have you heard of Lata Mangeshkar?
Me: I'm sorry, who?
R: Lata Mangeshkar!
Me: Haha, no, I'm sorry.
R: Well she is big in my country, like a goddess when she sings. Has sang over 5,000 of own songs in 55 different languages! The older she is, the more beautiful voice is!
Me: Wow, that's so cool! So, she's like The Beatles?!
R : Haha,
I got plenty of laughs from those listening in, alot of people in my class are very interested in him, since we don't get very many students from different countries. He's very friendly, and he loves to sing and dance. I looked up Lata Mangeshkar, but the music would be more appealing to me if I could understand her. There are some subtitles to it, but it's just not the same.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou0B9T89L0g
I really feel like I'm a creeper writing about a kid I just met, but his culture and humor is very good, and I wanted to share it.
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