My CP and I met at tea-time, and as soon as she walked into the lounge I said, “I’m hungry, I need to have lunch. Let’s go!” We immediately left the building into that awesome January sunshine. We went to Sunberry for my dessert (ahead of the sandwich I would have later), and we sat inside near the window so we could talk. She expressed her interest in getting help with pronunciation when she’s talking or reading aloud. She volunteered to read some passages from her CEIS notebook. Her “world” sounded like “word,” so we briefly practiced saying world vs. word. She had difficulties saying “v” as in “very.” When she said “every” it sounds like “ewery.” It was a good exercise for her to read to me out loud, and point out her weaknesses in pronunciation. In addition, we talked about when she would visit her home-county. She said, “next time, next time, next time,” and I had no idea what she meant. She said, “two years later.” I clarified her meaning by saying “You will visit Turkey in two years?”
Walking back from Tennessee Street, she pointed to a fire hydrant, bench, and ground-cover, for vocabulary. We sat in the Ruby Diamond area. I explained that "that's a fountain and it's like mountain, but with an f."
I think she will ALWAYS remember the things I told her today. Our interaction was overall positive and unplanned. It worked!
A fountain is very much like a mountain. Water comes out of both. Um, they both have metal in them. Sometimes green things grow out of both of them. I could go on.
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