Carlos and I walked around the campus during his lunch
break. I let him tell me how his
week went. He planned to leave the
next day with a lot of his Brazilian friends for Miami to see a soccer match. He was very excited because he has not
traveled around that much since being at CIES. He told me where he stayed near the campus and that he
sometimes got together with friends from Brazil.
He then told me that when he called his family back home,
they asked him about Obama Care and about a certain U.S. government policy. He told me that he didn’t know anything
about what his family was talking about.
He said that it was because he didn’t watch the news. I told him that I would help him by
emailing him several news websites.
We talked about politics in Brazil and in the U.S.
At times, he was still having trouble pronouncing the letter
“r” correctly. The “th” sound
sometimes is still a problem. He
did improve a lot in these past weeks.
He is very motivated to learn and to improve his English. He has an intrinsic motivation to
improve himself.
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