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Mostrando las entradas de marzo, 2018
2nd Meeting Melissa and I reconnected a month after the last meeting on Skype, we went back to ask some questions that we did the last meeting as What do you study? Do you spend time with your parents? Which university courses are the most requested in your country? and related questions. I went back to asking Melissa questions in Spanish such as, What year do you graduate from the University? What are you doing during Holy Week? Have you been left with tasks at the University? and she was able to answer me without having read. There were three minutes of silence since neither of us knew what to ask and we agreed to the next meeting we had said for the other week. Melissa told me that she needed to finish these meetings for the month of May and I told her that I also needed it so now we are taking it very seriously. I had thought that Melissa had not studied any Spanish for this meeting but she could answer the questions I had planned to ask her, but you should know that I as...
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1st Meeting When I finally met Melissa Marjak, I thought she was 17 or 18, because her face caught my attention. I was nervous about the meeting because I thought she would laugh at my accent in English and I was afraid that I did not know how to use Skype, although in reality she laughed a couple of times when she spoke to me, but I think it was because I did not understand some questions that she asked me. But speaking of accents, Melissa could not even tell me 3 complex sentences in Spanish, and I had to read them to be able to talk to me. She promised me that for the next meeting she would improve her Spanish so as not to be mute and so that I would not be the only one to make an effort to speak. Melissa and I introduced ourselves, we asked ourselves general questions such as: Where are we from? Who do we live with? What are our hobbies? If we like to watch series or movies and what? When are our holidays? and more related questions. I showed Melissa a picture ...