Michelle CP #4

Tuesday, July 15th
2:00-3:00
Stone Building, FSU campus

Jayeon told me the story of how she found her life's purpose. It began with being pressured to study law when she didn't want to. After graduating she was unable to pass the bar and was locked out of decent job opportunities. She decided to go to Indonesia to work with an NGO. She realized this work suited her very well and she decided to make it her career. She went into extensive detail about the pressure in Korea to be very highly educated and to have a respectable job. She discussed the competitive nature of the educational system. She asked me to help her write a letter for her graduate program and we spent some time on that. She was requesting information for her research study from a government official in Alabama.  Although she is a very polite person, her letter sounded very direct and somewhat demanding. I explained the differences in style and word choice and we rewrote the letter. I also explained the differences in regional/cultural norms in the United States. She was very grateful and she brought me gifts again. I gently told her it was not necessary and hopefully she will not feel like she needs to in the future.

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