Woon Jee ended up being about 45 minutes late to our meeting this time, and insisted that we go out to dinner before we start working on her paper. We had a really good time talking over dinner; she had the opportunity to vent about her program and her roommate. We talked about her home town and about her family. She wants to become a professor just like her dad, and would be interested in either teaching her or back home in Korea. We then got on the topic of teaching abroad and by the end of our conversation she had moved me in with her parents in Taejon and teaching at one of the two universities there…I told her that I’ll have to think about it some more after this class is over.
We ended up going to Barnes & Nobles to go over her paper (she wanted to go back to my office but since she had never been to B&N I convinced her that we should at least try it once). This time I let Woon Jee do most of the talking. She started right in, reading her paper out loud and asking questions or pausing whenever she was confused or unsure about something. She had misused the word “contractions” in her paper and had read right over it thinking that it was fine. I asked her to read the sentence again and she was confused as to why it was wrong. She ended up looking up the word in her dictionary and quickly realized that wasn’t the word she was trying to use. For our next meeting I thought I would bring the Limelight section of the Tallahassee Democrat for the two of us to go over so she’ll know where to look if she wants to try and find something to do on the weekend.
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