I met Elly again at Tea Time today. There was live music and we had a laugh as her roommate Billy was dancing crazy. Elly says he dances around the apartment a lot as well. Elly was too shy to dance until the last song that was a "belly dance" number. I am a belly dancer and she asked me to teach her a move so I taught her a simple, cute head slide.
I asked her about the government of Taiwan for the first time today. Elly told me they don't have a UN seat because when the current government of China took over, the old government ran to Taiwan. It is still considered property of China and many who side with Taiwan run the risk of upsetting diplomacy with China. Elly said the current president wants Taiwan to cooperate with China, but Taiwan is basically divided. Elly is all for Taiwanese independence.
She is still worried about the TOEFL because she needs a score of 80 and one of her good friends who just took it got a 79.
That's really cool that you were able to teach her a dance move, even though it was a simple one. Now she has something to show off to her friends! :)
ReplyDeleteBiou was really worried about the TOEFL test too! We spent a couple of our meetings going over different practice speech questions.
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