Real Conversation #4: Family (Gabriel & Kevin)

Gabriel: Alright Kevin, so today we're going to talk about relationships with your family and other things that are related to this. So, do you have any brothers or sisters?

Kevin: I have no brothers or sisters, I'm an only child. My mom she was born in Poland and my father was born in Iran. And they both met in Greece in the city of Athens, the capital of Greece. And they moved to Canada, to Vancouver. I was born and I've been living here all my life now.

Gabriel: Excellent, wow that's a really cool story. I knew that you were part Polish part Iranian… But I didn't know that your mom was Polish and your father Iranian, that's really cool.

Kevin: Exactly.

Gabriel: Have you been to Poland?

Kevin: I have been to Poland. The last time I went to Poland was two years ago, during the summer. I was there for two months.

Gabriel: Excellent. Was it a good experience?

Kevin: It was a great experience. I have my grandmother, my uncle, and a lot of friends in Poland, and we like to go to the river during the summer time. We have a beer and we just talk and we laugh.

Gabriel: Excellent, sounds like a lot of fun. So you have a lot of family members then in Poland?

Kevin: Not a lot of family members, just my uncle and my grandmother and I have three cousins but they now live in Italy, so they don't live in Poland but I see them from time to time as well.

Gabriel: Excellent, ok. How old are they?

Kevin: My cousins?

Gabriel: Your cousins, yes.

Kevin: My cousins. Uh, one is 14 years old, the other one is 18 years old and the oldest one is 24 years old.

Gabriel: Oh cool, so they're all younger than you.

Kevin: They're all younger.

Gabriel: I think that's really cool, because you can be almost like a brotherly figure.

Kevin: Exactly.

Gabriel: You can be like an older brother.

Kevin: And I don't have a brother.