Allison CP #1

English Conversation Club 5/14/2018

I host English Conversation Club in the Center for Global Engagement (the Globe) on Mondays each week from 4-5pm. This was the first session with the summer students, so I was excited to meet the new members. There was only one person who showed up for the first session, so I felt a little nervous about filling up the hour. This student is Henry, an undergraduate student from Taiwan, who is here to study computer science. We went over some American cultural aspects like the grading system here at FSU in comparison to the Taiwanese grading system. We also went over the pressures that different families from different cultural backgrounds place on their children, such as encouraging them to study abroad to learn English. Finally, we discussed one of the most easy to discuss topics- food. We talked about the different types of food on campus, and Chick-fil-a was a favorite for sure. 

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