Conversation with a Foreigner

- What do you studying?
- Philosophy.
- What’s that?
- Philosophy? Oh. Um... well, it’s...the history of ideas, the way people think...
- So you know what I thinking now?
- No, not exactly that... it’s like... how people have thought about things: why are we here, what’s our purpose, do we have a purpose, what is reality, what can we know, questions like that.
- Oh. Like where we come from.
- Yeah, kind of...
- So, you will work in hospital?
- What? No... um, I guess I could write books...
- Like the ones you reading?
- (laughing) Yeah, exactly like those ones.
- (smiling though unconvinced) That's good.