Catalina - CP #9

When Ania and I met on Wednesday it was more like a conversation that we’d ever had. She unwounded with me and told me a little bit about Turkey and how nervous she is about the TOEFL exam. We were laughing a lot in the small Circle K booth where I ran into some friends that ended up joining part of our conversation. The theme shifted towards relationships since one of my friend was having boy friend issues and it was interesting to see Ania’s mixed reactions. She seems like a really strong person, very brave and set forward yet she also has a classic upbringing and it seems complicated to put both things together. After about an hour we actually did some speaking practice for the TOEFL and she did a lot better than the previous days. I think ‘warming up’ really works for her. She no longer forgot as many verbs and was able to actually build many sentences instead of just placing the words together. Too bad we can’t do an hour of warming up during the exam!