Bianca Lee

Over this past semester I have been able to make a new friend who without me being in Literature and Civilizations II I would have never met. This new acquaintance is my conversation partner named Bianca Lee.

On our first meeting we went to the bookstore. In order to plan this meeting we communicated through email. After reading her emails I was able to tell she was not going to be a very good English speaker just yet. This was proven true when I talked to her for the first time as we began to chat at our table by the Starbucks in the bookstore. We had a difficult time trying to talk to each other and get the other to understand what we were saying. However, I was able to tell her some basic background about my life and learn some about hers as well.

Bianca is from South Korea and has been in the United States for about a year. She has been married for 5 years and her husband's company is the reason she had to move here from Korea. Back in Korea, her mom, dad, sister, and brother all still live. Right now she does not have a job yet and is a housewife. While attending school in Korea, she got a degree in social work. This is something she loves to do and thinks that she will eventually want to get a job doing while she is living in the United States. The only drawback to this as a career, according to Bianca, is the low salary a social worker is normally paid.

After are first meeting, I could tell Bianca missed her home country a great deal. She does not necessarily enjoy learning English because of its difficulty yet she was excited about the prospect of having more meetings to help practice in conversation. I left the bookstore excited to get to know more about Bianca over the semester.