Sheridan C.P #2

January 22, 2020

Conversation Partner #2

Hongfu Wu
CIES
Casual Conversation

  On Wednesday at approximately 3:00 PM, I met with Hongfu Wu outside of the CIES center on the same bench we agreed to meet at last Friday.  We talked about each others days and how our classes went.  She went on to ask me about where my classes are located and I pointed and tried my best to explain.  After a little, she asked me if I wanted to go inside and sit downstairs because her friends were down there.  Of course I agreed so that she was in a more comfortable setting.  So we walked downstairs to the computer lab where a few of her friends sat.  We both joined in their conversation and had a four-way chat.  They were very nice and I got to know more about the students of CIES.  One of the girls is Portuguese, but her parents are South Korean, I believe.  The other girl is from South Korea.  The boy that we were talking to is from Saudi Arabia.  It was so cool hearing all their different stories about why they are learning English and then hearing about all the languages they spoke.  Another girl from the TEFL program joined our conversation as she was the South Korean girls conversation partner.  She and I talked to each other about the TEFL program and what we hope to do in the future, and we made sure to include the CIES students because they were genuinely interested in why we were teaching students like them!