interview

C01 entered in the interview a bit timid but willing: fully covered with a shirt, a jacket and a cap, a half-smile on his face. “It is cold outside” he answered when I asked about the weather. In fact, C01’s parents may have come here from Denver, but he grew up in Miami: Pine Crest to be exact. Yet, ask anyone about C01, they will most likely believe that you are talking about his father. C01 is in fact the name on his birth certificate, but that’s how far as it goes. His father always wanted to call him C01, but his mother preferred “skip,” and that’s how everyone’s ever called him; everyone, except his 6th grade civics teacher.
C01’s name is not the only thing he got from his father. When I was growing up I was sure I wanted to become an engineer, like my father, “C01 revealed. Yet, C01 is currently majoring in Psychology, history and professional writing – nothing close to the mathematics he surrounded himself with growing up. Why? According to C01, engineers live a very still life which he does not aspire to. He instead aspires to become a sports psychologist.
Another thing C01 father tried to give his son is a passion for golf. “I swear, as soon as I could walk my father put a golf Club in my hands,” C01 said, and he’s been playing ever since. He won his first tournament at the age of three and even chose to attend St Thomas because of its Golf team. Even this paternally inherited passion seems to be dimming. C01 has left the gold team - though he still plays regularly – and prefers to spend his time fresh-water fishing.
So who is C01’s father? “I don’t know anyone who dislikes him,” C01 said pensively. “He never did anything wrong but he never did anything…” C01 never finished this sentence. Instead he reiterated about how his father always did what was right. Yet, C01’s eyes suddenly light up when he got to speak of his step-brother. “He’s one of my very best friends,” he said with a large smile. C01 is the only male child in his family, growing up with 4 sisters – what he calls a large family. His only older sister married when he was twelve, and ever since her husband has become his surrogate older brother.
Every now and then, C01, or better said, Skip does a bit of math to “keep it fresh.” And though English was his worst subject in High school, He just added it to his list of majors. “though I may not become a published writer, I like to have this possibility.”