For my last meeting with Jiyeon I finally got to work on the slang and idioms I’d planned before, but we always tended to get off on other issues, which is great since I first and foremost wanted my tutees to tell me what they need help with or want to focus on, but I knew this would be a fun lesson, especially given the conversational work we discussed in our first meeting. I found a fun website of 10 randomly chosen slang words and phrases placed in sample sentences, then to see the meaning of the word/phrase, you click it and it defines it for you. Each time you refresh the site it gives a new 10 sentences, so we did that a few times and had some laughs (since explaining some of these is a very silly task) while learning some new commonly used American expressions (i.e “He flipped out” or “he’s such a klutz”). After a few rounds of sentences, I went to englishclub.com where they have an idiom, saying, and slang of the day. We spent the last few minutes together just talking about student life at FSU and she asked me some different cultural questions. One question in particular was where do most of us girls shop for our clothes, as she looked around campus and made a comment about the plethora of sundresses. I said Forever 21 and Target are about all most of us can afford, and she just laughed at how pretty everyone looks, joking that she has no time for that, to which I told her none of us have 2 young kids to deal with! I’ve really enjoyed working with Jiyeon and I wish we’d been able to meet earlier in the session that we did.
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