Liberation

At a random temple on our customized WSJ walk we passed a temple under renovations.  With buckets and buckets of white paint several painted splattered Buddhist Monk students were painting the exterior walls of the grounds.  


One student smiling broadly approached us and the following conversation took place:


Student:  Hello.
Me:  Hello.
Student: (Smiling excitedly)  Where are you from?
Me:  USA.  New York City.
Student:  USA. New York City (Much more smiling as he strolled away looking at us over his shoulder)  
Me to Yen: I wanted to talk to him more. 
Yen to me:  He's practicing english.   
Me to Yen:  We could had practiced more. 
Yen to me:  That's all he knows.