Melannie CP#4

Conversation Partner

On Monday, I had met up with Mercia, my second conversational partner. We started to talk about what we had done during the weekend. Mercia said she had done nothing during the weekend because she just stayed at home for the four day weekend. She did; however, said that she completed all of her homework she had to do. After telling her what I did during the weekend, I had asked her what else she had done besides her homework. Which then open up our conversational over drama shows. We started to talk about Korean Drama. Mercia told me how she doesn't watch much Korean drama anymore like she used to because the style of the Korean drama is changing. She explains that most Korean dramas used to be about romance but nowadays it is also about politics, crime, food, etc. Then I asked her if she liked watching Brazilian drama since she was born and raised in Brazil. Mercia talked about how Brazilian dramas are so bad that she hated to watch it, and would prefer to watch Korean or Telenovela more. Lastly, we talked about music difference between Korean and Latino music videos. For Korean music videos, it is all about the dance moves; meanwhile, for Latino music videos, the music, and the video matches. That is why for those that do not speak Spanish or understand what they are saying can just watch the video and figure out what they are saying. 

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