When Astra and I arrived at the English Corner, we found people sitting at tables in small groups and there were several foreigners there. Since we saw there were seats near a gentleman who looked like from an European country, we took the seats and said hello to him and to the four girls around.
In the first several minutes, we just smiled and listened. No doubt that the 'blue eyes' played the leading role, whom we later knew as Andrew(Anda). He talked so much that we felt a bit upset 'cos we could hardly to get a word in. We were even embarrassed to find that it was hard for us to catch him when he talked very quickly.
We didn't feel very well until one of the four girls who were from the Normal college raised a simple question. We soon relaxed ourselves and found it was not so difficult to chat with foreigners naturally. Andrew introduced his friends Nithin an Zac to us later. They undertook different jobs like Andrew was a teacher in a middle school, Nithin was the chief finance officer in an Indian company, and Zac had many many titles. All of them met in this English Corner and became friends then. We were very surprised to find that Zac was just the one who orginazied this English Corner eight years ago.
It got noon soon and most of the partners had gone, leaving Anda, Nithin, Astra and I. What would we do then?
Yingbin Park