Lindsey TP#11

          Today I met with Kwangsoo for the last time.We met at Strozier and he had brought his wife and daughter. Kwangsoo and I talked while they explored the library. He had heard from Eugene that I was moving, and had a lot of questions about how that worked. I explained that here, it isn't very hard to transfer between universities (apparently in South Korea it is difficult). He asked if I was staying on campus (no, an apartment) and then about what student's apartments are like in Florida. I explained the different styles of apartments and that some students also rent small houses. He was surprised when I said that both of my roommates are men, and asked if my parents knew. I explained that its fairly normal for students to live with the opposite genders (not in dorms, but in apartments and houses). Even so, he couldn't imagine how my parents would be okay with the situation. He was also surprised that although my sister and I will be in the same city, we won't be living together. I new this was a cultural difference (that Korean young adults are more likely to live with their parents), but apparently Kwangsoo hadn't noticed the extent of the difference. I told him that most students live in the dorms or apartments - very few live at home.
          Throughout the conversation I was correcting Kwangsoo on his grammar and pronunciation. We talked some about regional accents in America after he asked a question about how to pronounce some word (which I thought could be pronounced correctly several ways). At some point he asked if I thought his English was improving, and I realized that he had improved quite a lot over the few weeks I knew him.