Frankie CP #5 & #6

For these last two meetings I had been with Andrea; on the first occasion we had gone out with Neila and Aviv to the Korean BBQ on Tennessee, while for the second we were with Hunter and Keunwha. At the BBQ with Neila and Aviv I had the opportunity to learn more about Isreal and Aviv's background. I had already known that it was compulsory for Israeli young adults to perform military service; however, I did not know how exactly that experience panned out. Aviv explained many things regarding his time there and the friendships that were made. It made me reflect on the idea of connection and community through a single cause, as Israel had done by making their youth come together and train. The food itself was quite good, we all shared a bit of each other's as much as we could--though I couldn't contribute much since I eat so much so quickly. The evening was delightful and we had made plans to hang out again, which he have done already. My final meeting for conversation partners was with Keunwha, Hunter, and Andrea downstairs at the CIES building. Andrea had invited me since she knew that I was also seeking a position in Korea to teach. I thoroughly enjoyed this occasion with Keunwha, as I had not really interacted with her before. I found her to be pleasantly polite and we discussed many topics. As usual, I tended to dominate the conversation and we spoke a lot about humor. I tried to explain a joke from a movie that I enjoy called Airplane! A running joke within the film was to take something someone had said literally, for example the air stewardess was speaking to a doctor on the plane and the doctor had said, "We need to land this plane now to get this man to a hospital," the stewardess responds, "a hospital! What is it?" the doctor finally responds, "it's a big building with patients." Another example was when a person would say, "surely, you can't be serious," and the other responds, "I am, and don't call me Shirley." I thought it was a reasonable subject to broach with Keunwha, as her English skills are quite good and humor is the last thing one is able to achieve in a foreign language. However, both Hunter and Andrea found my pursuit fruitless and bade me abandon it altogether. I would disagree and you can ask Keunwha herself if she finds such jokes funny, because I think that we really made some headway in this area.