On Friday 5 May, I met with Raul for our last tutoring session. He
wanted help with his pronunciation, and he brought a long list of verbs in
their past, present, and future tense forms with him. He went over each word
one by one, and I would correct whatever pronunciation errors he made. He had
trouble with the word breakfast. I mentioned something about its etymology: how
you can think of it as a compound word: break + fast. It is the morning meal,
and implies that by participating in it, the eater is breaking a fast (as in
abstaining from food). He found this interesting. When the lesson was over, he gave me a card
and told me he was proud that I was graduating. We plan to see each other again
someday. Maybe when I go to Mexico during the summer, he will be there and we
can meet up.
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