Monday, December 6, 2010

Conversation Partner, revised

Since I had such a hard time meeting my conversation partner after the first time, I get the opportunity to write about people that I have met that were not originally from America. Fortunately, I have met several. The first I will talk about is my sorority sister, Shealea. She is from China, and she is studying here in America. It is always interesting to talk to her because she is hilarious. She always has something shocking to say, and can make everyone laugh with the simplest things.
I have asked her several questions about what she misses most about China and why she decided to come to school in America. Honestly, the thing she misses most was the sleep schedule. Whenever she goes on holiday, she gets to go back to the fifteen hours! of sleep that she would normally get in China. I'm lucky if I get eight hours a night. But Shealea seems really American in most of her ways. She went to high school here, and because she liked it so much decided to go to college in America.
She has no problems, in the time I have known her, in expressing herself in the language. She has caught on to all the nuances in the English language that take a while to learn.
Meeting Shealea was great because it helped me to understand that for the most part, students are going to act similar. Though there are cultural differences, for the most part she enjoys many of the same things I do.

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