Alycia CP #1


Date/Time: May 19, 2018 5pm - 7pm
Location: My House
Topic discussed: Music
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: 

My conversation partner is Jeesoo Park, a South Korean native. She is taking her prerequisites for Nursing School and hopes to transfer to NOVA soon. One thing my conversation partner and I had in common is our taste in music. Jeesoo mentioned something about the band BTS releasing a new music video and asked if I had watched it yet. Personally, I am indifferent towards BTS, but I have been a fan of Korean music for about 10 years now. We started to share different bands that we were interested in and she introduced me to some new Korean bands. I introduced her to some old (70s and 80s rock) bands. We also realized that one of the groups she introduced me to has a very similar sound to 2000s pop/punk rock bands. 

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