So today my conversation partner Supin and I ventured to try Voodoo Dog after having established our love for cheese during the first meeting. As we walked the way to my car from Hecht House we talked about what we had done over the weekend. He knew I was going down to South Florida for a doctors appointment and concert. I told him about my post ophthalmologist procedure that resulted in me wearing sunglasses for the next week so I made sure he wasn't weirded out over why I was wearing sunglasses indoor at the restaurant. He mentioned wanting to visit Miami Beach sometime before he went back home to Korea and I said that since I'm planning on going back again in two weeks I'd try and bring him back a souvenir.
As we had gotten our awesome Macaroni and Cheese Hot Dogs (otherwise known as 'The Jefferson') Supin asked me what "xD" meant and I was completely thrown off as how to explain it without using my eyes. I ended up just looking up smileys on google and showing him pictures that captured it the best. I then went on to ask him if they had anything similar in Korea and he mentioned they use a messaging service called "KakaoTalk" which has tons of stickers one can download (similar to our version of Facebook messaging). I nodded in understanding as I mentioned that when I was in Japan I used something similar called LINE and showed him the app with all the quirky stickers one could use at their disposal.
Other than that the last activity we did was the one sent in the email as we were eating. Supin taught me how to introduce myself as well as how to say thank you in Korean and since he already knew the English equivalent I taught him how to do the same in Spanish and Japanese. We talked a bit about how the formal/informal in Japanese and Korean parallel each other and he found it fascinating that I could speak three languages.
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