Today, August 31, 2015, I met with CIES student, Marco, from China. He is a new student but his English is quite good and he is very enthusiastic about learning. We met at around 8:00 in the coffee room at CIES where we proceeded to discuss the film he had just seen, "American History X." He told me that he and his girlfriend (who is still in China) watched the movie together over Skype. He asked me if I had seen it before myself and I informed him that I had indeed seen it, and that I also enjoyed it. Marco said that he, too, enjoyed the film but he had to explain to his girlfriend that the movie did not in fact represent American society.
We continued talking about movies and documentaries that Marco had been watching, his favorite one as of late being a documentary on the History Channel on the foundation of the United States. He asked me about what I studied at FSU and why I come to CIES. I explained to him that I was training to receive my TEFL certification and that I was there to work with students as both a conversation partner and as a tutor. He was confused by the word tutor initially but understood once I explained. He became very interested in this and asked if I would tutor him as well in the afternoons, to which I was happy to agree.
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