Well, Baltimore City Community College turned out to be a bust. Their program doesn’t start until July 15th. So there was no way I can wait that long to find a conversation partner. But I did meet Lilly Marquez. She was waiting to see the same person I was waiting to see and looking for an opportunity to join an academic community. We struck up a conversation and got to know one another sitting and waiting for Ronnie to finish with some admin duty related to BCCC registration.
She is from Mexico and has been in this country for 3 years. Her parents are artists and they brought her to the US when they came to study at the Maryland institute College of Art. I am alum of that University so we struck up a conversation. She finished high school in Mexico where she had studied English but she said she didn’t have much practice in speaking. She speaks mostly Spanish at her job in the Fells Point area of Baltimore so she still didn’t get much practice. I thought she sounded great. She only had made a few mistakes in speaking. She is looking to finish her education when her English speaking improves.
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