I met with Libo and Tien. Tien is from Taiwan. When I asked her what she wanted to work on she said she would like to work on her writing although her speaking could use improvement.
For this session, since Libo wanted to speak and Tien wanted to speak but mostly write, I decided to focus on speaking. Tien also forgot her essay she wanted me to help her with. We talked about what they were doing here at FSU. Libo said he wanted to become a chemistry professor. Tien said she wanted to be a computer scientist. She went to university in Taiwan but did not like the classes or the teacher so she decided to come here. She said it was easier here. She said she does not like Tallahassee because it is not safe to walk around at night. She said she doesn't like the thefts that happen around campus.
I asked them what their daily life schedule was like and they both said they get up early, go to class, and go to bed after homework. Tien explained her name in Mandarin and told us that it can be written and read top to bottom, right to left, and left to right. I took notes on their conversations and at the end I showed them some beautiful mistakes. They corrected them fairly easily.
I liked speaking with them. I think I'm going to incorporate beautiful mistakes into the end of sessions and give them a "quiz" in a few sessions to see how they do.
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