once a month, i meet with my mentee kid named nicole. she goes to an all-girls high school and is a driven girl (she applied to 11 colleges or something). anyhoo, i think my "mentoring" abilities are spectacular. she's pretty talkative and fun, but i feel the need to ask mentor-like questions to make sure she's steered in the right direction.
so here's an excerpt from today's conversion.
me: "that's great you finished college applications. so you got senioritis yet?"
nicole: "well, i'm working pretty hard still. i'm thinking that i should try to get an summer job."
me: "oh. that's cool. what else do you have going on?"
nicole: "we have a winter formal coming up."
me: "nice. did you ask anyone to be your date yet?"
nicole: "well, i had this boy i was going to ask, but i am his best friend's girlfriend now."
me: "HUH? "
nicole: "recently, his best friend came over, call me on my cell, and asked me to come out to his car. he had nice music on, gave me a rose, and asked me."
me: "oh, so how do guys ask girls to be their girlfriend these days? do they say, let's go steady or be my girlfriend or hey baby, be mine?"
nicole: "haha, no. he didn't have to say anything."
me: "OOOOH. um. cool. well, glad you finished your college applications."
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