Aaron CP-1

I met with my partner on Tuesday in the CIES lounge. Although I signed up for two partners, one had already left. In all the chaos of the student meetings,  I was misguided to a wrong partner, which I quickly realized. I was relieved after meeting my partner because she was very polite and respectful.  our conversation started out simple asking basic questions such as "where are you from", "what do you plan to do after school" she also asked me similar questions. I was excited to find out she was interested in the Arabic language and she told me a few Arabic words she knows Inshallah and Marhaba. There was a few awkward moments and pauses, but nothing to bad. we talked about pronunciation, because she said it was one of her problem areas. she told me a story about her mistakenly pronouncing beach, bitch and I helped her with  the word beach. Although she felt seemed self conscious about her pronunciation i was impressed and thought she did a very good job considering she has only been speaking English for seven months. She explained to me that she wanted to become a nurse although her parents want her to major in business or math. I told her my Mom is a nurse . Although I think the meeting went pretty good,  next time I am going to prepare some topics in case we run out of things to say.