Hayden Forehand TS #16

On July 24th Kang and I met in room 311 of the CIES building at 5pm. We opened briefly by discussing a new tutor Kang has found through the Leon County Library (he is really impressive with his seeking out of outside sources of education!). He was warmed up from conversation with that man, so we got right into what he wanted: an organic conversation that was much less organized than the more recent ones we have been having. We spanned a great number of topics from the Korean Draft (where we were able to focus a bit on his slight misuse of the phrase "taken for granted"), to the disturbing trend of global "Isolationism" (we discussed the difference between this word and "Nationalism"). Kang got a great listening exercise, since the topics were so disparate he really had to focus on the words outside of just context, and he was able to practice many different ways of explaining complex thing. Kang expressed pleasure at the practice gained from this more organic exercise.

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