About TZ relationships and dating

16 July 2007
So today was interesting, Marc came before and after classes; I spent like 2.5 hours with him. We talked about so many different things; Brian, Mary his ex, my parents, divorce, how schools are different, so many different things. The most interesting part was when we started talking about us. I was talking about the difference about dating here and in the states. Apparently dating is not common here, they don’t even have a word for it in the language; he was surprised at how common it was in the states. He asked me what a couple do, how is it different from just friends, and how people pick their partner. I started to laugh because I was basically describing why I was interested in him; and when it came to what couples do, I was describing it and he asked me, and “what are we?” (I don’t know yet. I told him honestly). I said that couples, basically is a boy and girl that spends the most time together. Which by todays example( 10 hours) would fit us. But later when we were walking I started talking again. I asked him how is felt about me and the whole possibility of us. I was let down, but the message I got was that the environment was not good for it, because of the people that we live with and everything, but he told me not to feel awkward around him, just be normal. That threw me because Charles said to be normal around him too. For most of the walk up I could tell that I was withdrawn from him but on the way back down. It was better mainly because of the joke about the cows being afraid of me and warning the other cows, as we passed each on they mooed.