Jennifer- CP 08- 9/26/10

This afternoon I invited my conversation partner (Biou and her friend Wenbo), tutoring partner (Woon Jee), and Alison’s partners (Mandy, Karis, and two other girls) over to my parent’s house for lunch. While we waited for everyone to arrive, I took Biou, Wenbo, and Woon Jee around our house and we ended up in my room. On our first meeting, one of the first things Biou did was show me some of the pictures she had taken while in the US. With this in mind, I showed the girls different photo albums I had created with my friends. They really enjoyed looking through this, and especially found it funny how much Alison and I had changed over the years. During lunch most of the girls were pretty quiet. They had assumed that they were supposed to act this way while we ate but we quickly told them that wasn’t the case. After dinner we took them out on the porch to play foosball. Most of the girls had never played before, so they each took turns trying it out. Two of the girls ended up being really good, and so my brother and I decided to play against them. They absolutely loved this and thought my brother was the best player ever (they kept calling him MVP). We also turned on the Wii for them to play; most of them had already played this but they still had a lot of fun taking turns with the different games we had. Later, while I was driving Wenbo and Biou back to their apartments, Biou told me that she had a great time but wondered how exactly she was supposed to address my parents. I explained to her that she could address my mom as “Stella,” “Ms. Stella,” or “Ms. Infinger.” I asked her how I would address her parents if we were in Beijing and she told me that I could call them “Auntie” and “Uncle” and didn’t have to worry about trying to remember/pronounce their actual names.