Back in October I met my conversation partner. His name is Yongbae, and he is AWESOME!! He is an "older" man (he's in his late 30's) and is from South Korea. We met in the afternoon after his last CIES class of the day. It was a somewhat awkward altercation to find each other outside of Strozier library seeing that we did not know what the other looked like. I saw an Asian man with a lost look on his face outside the main doors and holding a cell phone, but I didn't want to walk up and ask if he was the Korean guy I was suppose to meet. Thought it would come off slightly racist.
Luckily, he looked at me and as in pretty thick Korean accent "Are you Gavin?". "Yes, and you are Yongbae correct?". "Yes!"
From there, we went and sat at some tables near Landis Green. We mainly spoke about him and his family being new to America. His thick accent began to slim as we got deeper in the conversation. His sentence structures were for the most part, accurate. But his big problem was vocabulary. A decent amount of our conversation was spent me suggesting certain words I thought he was trying to use. Which doesn't really bother me at all! I find it to be sort of like a game.
The afternoon was lovely, and we made arrangements to get coffee later that week.
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