Riley TS #6

 Location: Cascades Park

Time: 3-4pm

For this session, Yewon and I went to Cascades and sat on one of the couches outside of Powerplant Coffee. For the past few weeks Yewon has been talking about wanting to travel to New York once the CIES session ends and before she has to travel back to South Korea for nursing school. I decided that for this session we were going to plan her hypothetical trip to NYC. 

We started by researching hotels and weighing pros and cons (price vs. location). Yewon eventually decided on one that costed a bit more money, but was in a great spot in the city. We then researched different restaurants and popular places to eat. She made a list of the top 5 places she wanted to try. We then did the same for different attractions and tourist places. Once she had another 'top 5' list, we wrote a summary of her trip. 

I typed it up as Yewon narrated the trip to me using the research we had just done. I wrote most things directly as she said them. In most cases, she caught her mistake right away and corrected it. Other times, she didn't catch it as she spoke, so once we were done I pointed the mistakes out in the finished paragraph. She asked me a few questions about grammar and vocabulary that I referred to. For example, she asked by I referred to the Metropolitan Museum as "The MET", but refer to MOMA as simply MOMA.  For this instance, I told Yewon that "The MET" was just what the museum was known as colloquially. I then explained the word "colloquial" to her and showed her what the word was in Korean. 

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