Jillian TS #8

Date/Time: May 24, 2017; 9:00-10:00 A.M.
Location: Home via Skype (Tallahassee/Seoul)
Topic: Instagram Food and Taiwanese Night Markets/Speaking, listening, and reading
Feedback: Word choice/tense correction

Our topic for this session started about Instagram. Instagram is very popular in South Korea so we read an article about food oriented Instagrams. The pictures were almost too perfect, and it took away from some of the fun about Instagram. Social media is all about sharing fun moments and memories, but instead we stared at raw fish and wondered if some of the food was even edible. It seemed like too much effort to Soyoung, and she chose to stick with her usual Instagram style. We did briefly talk about the raw foods in the pictures and how Koreans eat raw crab. I am not sure if I am on that bandwagon yet. Soyoung assured me it is good.

Our next topic was about night markets in Taiwan. Soyoung's boyfriend lives in Taiwan, so I thought it would be a great topic for when she visits him next. We were both grossed out by the food offered at the night markets. One had a special delicacy of snakes. We both thought that sounded horrible, but she made it worse by telling me about snake wine. It is exactly what it sounds like. It is a wine with a whole snake preserved within in it, and it has become more popular since more foreigners started visiting Asia. Bubble tea was the only thing Soyoung has tasted that is at the night markets. She said it is really good and worth trying.

There was a moment of tense correction between "eat" and "ate." Soyoung generally self corrects as we talk. I correct her article usage as we talk, but occasionally we get confused by each other's word choice.