Making Friends: Cherry

Not that I disagree with him, but Muir thought I needed a Chinese friend here in Beijing, so after work on Tuesday I agreed to meet a young woman named Cherry.  (The Chinese often pick their own English names, sometimes with hilarious results.  Watch this video about Beijingers picking English names if you have the chance.)  I haven't asked her why she chose that name yet.  I guess I'm saving the question for our second meeting.  Anyway, Muir's Chinese language partner, Nora, introduced us and suggested that we could be language partners since I need someone with whom to practice my Chinese and Cherry recently started her own English school and wants to further her English skills.  She is about my age, super cute, and likes to watch American TV shows like Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City, and that new show on the CW "The Secret Circle."  It's about witches I think, although I haven't seen it.  How she manages to find it, I have no idea.  And that's where the similarities end.  I guess we'll see if language exchange is enough to make a friendship.