I met with my conversation partner again yesterday, January 30! Eunyoung had mentioned last time we met that she was really into painting, so I had the idea of bringing her to the art center at the union here on campus. We looked up the prices for painting classes but those were too expensive, so we settled on painting the small ceramic items available in the shop. Eunyoung chose a small lizard magnet and I chose a champagne flute. We went to the back room and I explained how the art center works--I showed her how to choose the paints, brushes, and how they would fire her lizard when we were done painting. After we sat down and started painting our conversation naturally flowed. We talked about our weekends (she had went to Panama City to visit her relatives) and about classes. We talked about animals for a while because she said she wanted to make her lizard look like a chameleon and I mentioned how I used to love drawing chameleons with oil pastels when I was in elementary school. Somehow we got to talking about celebrities and movies we liked as well, and she talked about how she liked thrillers and action films. Our conversation was engaging and it was fun talking to her again, she even texted me a picture of her finished lizard magnet this morning and it was so cute!
During the conversation she did have a little bit of trouble with some English words and phrases ('nostrils', for example) but I had no problem helping her. We haven't made plans yet for our next meeting but I'm excited to see her again, it's really fun chatting to her.
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