Emily CP #5

On Thursday, April 11th, at 9 am, I had a conversation partner session with Dojun. I've noticed he's been a bit tired from work recently, which seems to be affecting his speech rate, as he was stuttering a bit more and had more trouble recalling words. Regardless, once we started talking, the conversation livened up a bit. As usual, we talked a little bit about his work and the Boeing aircraft situation. I mentioned what was going on in class, as I had the final exam on this day. Because we were talking about school and education, I suddenly remembered something from my childhood. I asked him about the Kumon, the private tutoring school. I used to go to one near my home as a child, as we had them in Atlanta. He immediately recognized and confirmed that South Korea has those too. He thought it was very interesting because he thought Kumon was confined to Eastern Asia (Korea and Japan.) We then talked about different medical topics, such as blood pressure. This was a very interesting and varied conversation!

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