Paige CP #1

My first meet up with my conversation partner went pretty well. Her name is Brenda and she was born in California but raised in Mexico. The majority of our meet up was spent getting to know each other. I discovered that she was married and is originally from Mexico City. So she said when she came to Tallahassee from Mexico City, it was a large culture shock. The main thing was that Tallahassee was really small to her and hard for her to travel since it is spread out so much. On my part, I come from a town a lot smaller than Tallahassee, so I was seeing this from a different perspective. I added in some good things about Tallahassee to make her feel less homesick and we ended up on the topic of food. We both really enjoy Buffalo Wild Wings and Teriyaki Chicken. On top of that, we both like listening to Bruno Mars.
One thing she said was the hardest part for her in learning English was the grammar. She said the easiest is being able to read it. Her main goal is she wanted to work on her speaking. Brenda was very aware of her main issues in speaking, such as placing her verbs in the wrong place and conjugations, but I reassured her that for the most part she was doing very well. Every now and then I did correct her. However, when I first started, I was afraid to correct her because I did not want to seem like I was talking over her. But, she reassured me to do it, so she can better improve, so I felt reassured. At the end of the session, we agreed to meet next Friday and go shopping at the mall and eating teriyaki chicken.

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