Colleen CP 1

Conversation Partner Meeting 1
Today I meet with my conversation partner for the first time.  Over the weekend we had tried to set up a complete series of meetings, but found that this was difficult to do via texting. So we agreed to just meet today and then set up further meetings in person. This has worked great as we will have completed the six meeting by the end of next week.
So, my conversation partner's name is Maria Pinheiro. She is from Brazil and her first language is Portuguese. She is 30, married and has a dog, which she misses very much! Don't know the dog's name, yet.  Maria has an engineering degree and has work for 10 years in Brazil as an engineer. She has found that she does not like engineering and wants to study to be a veterinarian.  First she has to increase her English proficiency before she can accepted into the degree program at FSU.

I asked her how English study is viewed in Brazil, and she said that for the most part it was not considered as very important, unless a person wanted to leave Brazil.

We completed the Elephant and the Blind Man exercise. She was hesitant in her out loud reading, but her comprehension of the story was excellent.  When I asked her what she thought the purpose or moral of the story was she identified the idea suggesting that different perspectives could all be correct.  There were a number of vocabulary words that she had not encountered, which she asked for clarification on.

That's all Folks👍