Bill-CP-Week 2

I met with Young Song yesterday for an hour. We talked a bit about his life in Seoul. He said drinking, pool, and movies was popular at his university...a universal trait world wide! Since I visited Seoul, I talked about my experiences there with him. I told him I didn't do much traveling there but that I ate a lot of Korean food, especially kimchi! He was surprised a foreigner would like it. He said his mom mails him kimchi from home. I can understand why. If you never ate kimchi made from Korea, you do not know the true tastiness of kimchi!

But I digress...I also talked about some culture differences that I noticed in Korea. Like lots of women hold hands there, and the men kind of put their arms around their guy friends neck when walking. I read about it before I went so I wasn't too surprised, but it was amusing to see. He said it was normal, but you would never see a guy holding hands with another guy (unless they were gay).

It seems like there is a lot of interesting things I can talk with Young. His English is pretty good in my opinion. I do not know what his reading comprehension level is, but he talks at a decent speed and his English makes sense. Although there are some odd uses of words, such as "There is many snow in Seoul" instead of "There is a lot of snow in Seoul now". But these are mistakes that can be corrected with time and practice.