Jennifer- CP 07- 9/24/10

Biou had mentioned that she’d really like to go see a movie so I gave her three different movies to choose from: The Town, Wall Street 2, or You Again. Biou ended up picking the new Ben Affleck movie, The Town and we decided to go to AMC that night to watch it. She had said that she really liked Ben Affleck, especially in Pearl Harbor and she seemed really excited about going to see the movie. Throughout the previews she had a few comments; she got really excited about the new Johnny Depp movie with Angelina Jolie but wanted to know why he had gotten so fat. I tried to quickly explain to her that he was dressed to look older because of the character he was trying to portray. Throughout the entire movie she didn’t really have any questions, but I caught her whispering to Wenbo every now and then. I didn’t want to overload/distract her so I didn’t say anything to her until after the movie. Later, she told me that she had a difficult time understanding the way they talked as it was different from what she heard in Tallahassee. I explained to her that different regions of the country spoke with different accents, and Alison and I being the people that we are couldn’t pass up the opportunity to try and talk to them in the various accents  They found this extremely entertaining and funny, and explained that this was similar back in China but they had Chinese subtitles for all of the movies because some of the accents/dialects were so different. They were also kind of taken aback at how many curse words there were, in particular, f*** was used basically every other word. They said they struggled understanding what the characters were trying to say but that they could catch that word every time because the actors used a lot of emphasis when they used that word. We tried to explain to them that in this case the word wasn’t so out of the ordinary, and told them that movies that took place in the Boston area tended to use that word quiet a lot. We laughingly suggested that next time they can work on their grammar skills by picking out the different ways the word is used in the movie- subject, verb, adjective, adverb, expletive, etc.