Our Very Own....British....Visitor

We had the opportunity of having a British man come to answer questions about the British.  When our visitor first arrived, his persona didn’t seem to be too open.  It seemed as though he didn’t want to be seated in a living room sized classroom, surrounded by American students sitting in a circle, starring at him like vultures, anxious to pile random questions on him.  Then, after he was here for about fifteen to twenty minutes, and I saw that his body language was the same (even though he had, by that time, laughed a bit) I realized that that’s just his relaxed state; it didn’t mean he wanted to and it didn’t mean he did.  Our conversations were open and uncensored.  He didn’t mind all of our odd questions, which was cool.  Sometimes, it seemed that the questions we asked were difficult for him to answer, and some were rather short, but he was honest.  One thing that I appreciated, and I think we all did, was that he lived in both America and England for multiple years, so he had something to contrast with England.  He knew what were were referring to when we spoke of different things in America.  It was funny that he to agreed that American food was better than food in England.  He confirmed some of the stereotypes that we had about the British, and gave us some insight to his personal world as a man living in England.