Dana CP# 5

I met with my conversation partner yesterday.  He is only 18 so there are some maturity issues I am dealing with.  I had called him the day before to remind him of the meet.  I also called him 2 hours ahead of the meet to remind him.  I arrived at the scheduled time and . . .  you guessed it-he wasn't there.  I called him and he was still at home, but he said he was on his way.  Twenty minutes later he arrived on his bike. I told him I felt disrespected, using google translate--English to Arabic. He said he was sorry. I asked him if it was customary in his country to be late for a meeting?  He said it was. LOL
 He said that if a guy tells you he will be there in 5 minutes, it will be 30 minutes before he shows up.  I explained to him that in America being late shows disrespect.  I asked him if he knew the value of my time? He didn't of course, but he seemed to appreciate it is a minimum of $250 per hour in my profession.
 He said he had been sleeping.  I gather that the kid sleeps a lot, so maybe he is depressed, or maybe he is just a growing teenage boy.  They do sleep a lot. It probably is difficult to be away from the family in a strange land.  Anyway, we put it behind us and began talking about his class presentation.
He said it went very well.  We talked about our surroundings, different words and the pronunciations.  We talked about movies, shopping, food, restaurants, doctors and some other topics that came up.  I asked him if he had eaten.  He said he had some corn flakes.  I asked if he was hungry and he was.  We finished the hour talking about what we each were going to do the rest of the day. I offered to take him to lunch.  He accepted.  We took a break and then he directed me to Target and WalMart where we searched for a computer cable for my printer.