Manuela TS#19

 Date: June 21

Time: 3pm-4pm

Location: Hecht House

For our last session Sangji and I talked about his recent trip to New Orleans, in which we were able to continue practicing with past tense use. I noticed this time he had a significantly better fluency to his speaking and made less mistakes with present continuous, using past simple instead. We took some time to look at the different places he went to on google maps as he told me about what they did at each location. We also talked about the Southern culture of New Orleans and he mentioned that he tried gumbo and loved it. This led us to further conversation about food, which is when he showed me a common activity in South Korea where people go to restaurants in nature areas like a mountain valley, and the tables are partially submerged in water so you can put your feet in. We talked about the differences in food culture between our countries and how in Korea it is common to order the same things for the whole table family-style. I thought this was interesting and told him about my similar experience in Vietnam as we never ordered our own dish at a restaurant.


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