Rachael CP # 5

On Tuesday (2/14), Aeyil and I met for lunch at the Chick-fil-A on campus, though we decided on the neighboring campus restaurant instead. She held down the fort at an outdoor table and we took turns getting food. It was a lovely afternoon full of salad, sharing, and Scrabble! I learned a little more about Korean grammar structure, particularly how the verb always comes at the end of a sentence and how oftentimes a word we'd use as an adjective in English would be used as a verb in Korean! It was super fascinating. As we talked over lunch, we shared with each other what we had planned for Valentine's day. The only beautiful mistakes Aeyil really ever makes are a few word choice or order errors. For example, "I have will have planned nothing for Valentine's Day" doesn't work as well if the day you're speaking about the subject is on Valentine's Day. I showed a the picture of the wine and painting event my beau and I attended the previous night, and we decided that we would go to one together as a future Conversation Partners event. It was simply too windy to stay out there, so we migrated back to CIES. In the basement we found Nora, and we played a game of scrabble. I ended up teaching them some new words, such as "fife" and reign. I tried not to absolutely destroy them so I could be encouraging! Scrabble was a lot of fun, and I would definitely like to play with more international students going forward!