Unfortunately, it seems like the weather
likes messing with my plans to spend time with my conversation partner. We have already had difficulties planning meetings due to the ice, but now the rain has
had its say too.
On Friday, we were supposed to go
with her IEP group and play volleyball. I was extremely excited because I loved
hanging out with the other girls in the IEP program when we went rock climbing,
and volleyball has been one of my favorite sports to play since I played in
middle school. However, the weather decided that volleyball wasn’t going to
happen.
Instead I met with my conversation
partner in Union Grounds and we spent some time talking with each other. We
started off our conversations by talking about our weeks and how much homework
we had and how busy our weeks had been. She had a normal course load and I felt
like absolutely everything was due on Friday. We also talked about the fact that
I had Body Project training this weekend and that my birthday was on Sunday,
March 22. She made sure to text me on my birthday, and I put her birthday in my
phone so that I can make sure to tell her happy birthday!
We kept discussing school and I
found out that my conversation partner is close to graduating the IEP program!
I was extremely excited for her, and I know I will be sad to see her leave.
It’s great that she is graduating though so she can start working on her
college degree. I know that she will do great in her field.
Beyond talking about school, we took some time
to talk about TV shows and, of course, Netflix! I was interested in
understanding the types of TV shows that she had in her country. I wanted to
know if there were different genres of TV shows. She told me that there were
many different genres of TV shows, but they also can see American shows. The
genres of shows that we discussed were game shows, news, and talent/singing
shows. It was interesting to see how American shows were similar in genre to
the shows she had in her country, and how far American pop culture can travel.
Beyond talking about TV shows, we
just sat around and had a regular conversation. It was interesting to me to see
how easy it was to talk to her even though her first language wasn’t English. I
didn’t really have to actively watch my words, though if I noticed that she
didn’t understand a certain word I was able to find another word that she did
understand. Unfortunately, her “mom” came to pick her up early. So we didn’t
get to spend as much time hanging out as I would have liked.
This week though we decided to play
it safe and pick an activity we could do indoors. Hopefully, the weather won’t
be able to wreck an indoor activity! Though I should probably go and knock on
wood now… It will be fun getting to pick back up my ping pong skills (not that
I actually have any), when we go play ping pong this week!
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