Chris - CP # 5

I met with Marsha last night. She is from Thailand, but has lived in the states for over 5 years now. She has an extensive vocabulary, but she says she still struggles with pronunciation sometimes. She wants to tweak her accent so that she sounds American. She said it's OK to correct her when she pronounces something wrong, so I do that and offer her synonymous words occasionally so that she can further expand her vocabulary. I can explain a lot of it in Thai, but for the sake of this conversation partner assignment, I explain everything in English. It's tough to pass up a chance to speak Thai, but I'll just have to find my own conversation partner for that.

Marsha is actually in my American Lit class, which impresses me. I can't imagine having to read that many novels in another language in such a short time. She doesn't like that class, but it's required for her major.

We walked to the SLC to see Inception. The football game was going on, so every restaurant we passed was loud with cheer and hope. We talked a little about football, but neither of us like it too much. Final exams, sororities, and the weather were all topics that came up. We went into the movie and found two seats in the packed theater. Coincidentally, Baha sat right in front of us (I see him everywhere!). We didn't talk much during the movie since it's so intense and complex.

On the walk back, we talked about the movie and dreams. Marsha told me about one of her reoccurring dreams and I told her about one of mine. She told me she was able to control one of her dreams once, and I was jealous. We took the Nite Nole back towards our homes, which was a display of another side of FSU student life.