Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Carolina TP4

When I met with Eunsung for the first time a few weeks ago I picked her up from CIES and took her to Black Dog Cafe at Lake Ella. I introduced her to my favorite drink there: the Black Dog. It's like a frappucino at Starbucks but better (in my opinion, and now Eunsung's!). She was so in love with it every time we meet she wants one! We went over words that she's been having problems pronouncing and then I made her just talk about her culture and home back in Korea. Whenever she had trouble finishing her sentence I would help her break it down word by word and then get her to repeat it again. I got her to discuss her religion, Buddhism, and the differences between the two kinds of Buddhists in Korea. When I told her that I was studying Buddhism and had been to services she was so excited she literally couldn't form a sentence. She finally said, "I would never have fathomed that an American could be Buddhist." Her vocabulary is so good!! She's constantly surprising me just like I am her. After our tutoring session I took her over to Quarter Moon and took her shopping--she was only used to Governor Square and really loved that there were cute boutiques here in Tallahassee. I'm going to take her to Urban Thread sometime soon and see how she likes it.

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