Monday, August 28, 2017
Sophie CP #6- Prius
For my last conversation partner meeting I ended up talking with someone not from FSU or CIES, but an ESL student nonetheless. While in Minnesota I got to meet a man living with my grandmother's neighbor, a man from Cameroon named Prius. He's had quite the journey to get to this little rural area in Minnesota, and it was really interesting to hear him tell it. He was studying to be a preacher, but was suddenly forced to leave the country because of the government. So he escaped, with very little, and ended up in South America. Soon after he left, police came to his house looking for him, and arrested his brother thinking it was him. As far as he knows, his brother is still in prison. He did a lot of traveling on foot to make it to the United States, but finally made it here to seek asylum. Now he's in Minnesota and continuing his studies, living with my grandma's neighbor and two other refugees. All of them are pretty advanced English speakers, as they've been here for several years now. It was really cool to be able to talk to him, and to hear a story firsthand that I've previously only seen in movies and books.
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