Converastion Partner #2

     As promised in our last encounter, I brought one of my Frisbees for Deo to see. I thought that he would recognize that he actually knew what a Frisbee was but he just did not know the name for it, but he actually had never seen one before.  I handed it over for him to inspect and he immediately figured out how it was used.  This impressed me because when I am handed a foreign object, I often do not automatically know what to do with it.  We threw the Frisbee for several minutes and he began to ask what games you can play with a Frisbee.  I explained the basic rules of Frisbee golf and ultimate Frisbee, but he did not seem to understand.  Afterwards, we walked to Union Grounds to get something to drink.
     On the way to Union Grounds, Deo asked more about the buildings of TCU and how each department is divided into its respective buildings.  He was especially interested in the business school since that is what he plans to do after IEP.  This brought me back to thinking of how determined and focused Deo is on reaching his goals (this meeting, he told me that one of these goals is to own a Range Rover because he is "tired of driving his taxi car around").  In a stroke of luck, as we made it to the commons, some members of the TCU's Ultimate Frisbee team were playing a pick-up game and Deo and I watched for a while.  He jokingly told me that it was just a ripoff of soccer and we had a good laugh.
     When we got to Union Grounds, I bought Deo's drink due to my abundance of campus cash.  I haven't seen anyone so appreciative in a very long time.  It's funny to think that TCU gives up this campus cash (I mean... we pay for it in our meal plans...) and we take it for granted and think of it as fake money to buy whatever we want.  It meant nothing to me to swipe my I.D. for a Sprite, but Deo appreciated that Sprite as if it were the last one on Earth.  I hope this moment sticks with me forever and I never forget how lucky I am.