Maria
I with Maria for the last time this week. She is leaving on
Monday and I will be out of town all weekend so we will not get to meet again. It
was such a pleasure getting to know her over these last few weeks. At first she
was really shy but by this meeting she was much more comfortable and her English
has improved so much! Lauren is her other conversation partner so she came
along too. We met up with my mom and intended to go to Chili’s but because they
close early for summer, we walked to the Pitaria instead.
She was so happy to see my mom again. She really liked
talking to her because they are closer in age and such. I asked some questions
Maria had previously asked me about the healthcare system in the US. My mom is
a nurse who works at the Department of Health so I knew she could provide
better answers than I could. My mom was also talking about the protests
currently happening in the Capitol over the Hold Your Ground Law. Maria was familiar
with the Zimmerman case. I think they have been talking about it in her classes
or something. She told us about the
recent protests in Brazil. She thinks that even though the protests are about
things that are good (getting more social services, fighting corruption, ect.)
that if they continue to elect the same corrupt leaders; no real change will be
made.
We walked back to our cars and I said bye to Maria. She said
she will keep in touch with me through e-mail and I hope that she does. I also
told her to send me all of the pictures she has of us together. All in all, I
enjoyed having Maria as a conversation partner and I think the experience
has taught me a lot.
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