CP #1: Talking about English and other things in English

I met Mahdi near the coffee pots at CIES and immediately start speaking some Arabic with him. He seemed taken aback by this and then started speaking very fast Arabic, so I said lets speak English. It turned out that he had been a student at CIES for almost a year and that he plans on attending college in the US and study engineering. He explained to me that he is eighteen and from Kuwait. Most importantly he commented on his love of music and showed me his library on his Ipad, which happened to be extensive. I’m rather jealous. I asked him if he kept up with American music, which he did, but couldn’t remember the artists names only the lyrics to the songs. I asked him which types of music he really enjoyed, to which he said most of them but he couldn’t understand the lyrics in rap music. I couldn’t either. We plan on meeting again for lunch or at the gym when the shoulder heals up.