Date/Time: 3 June / 12:30 - 3:30
Location: La Tiendita and Catalina Café
Topic discussed: Eating out culture, our
mutual love for coffee, and the weather, etc.
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner
learned: My conversation partner and I decided to get lunch at La
Tiendita since she was craving Mexican food. Neither of us had been before (we
were going off a recommendation that Jiwon had gotten from a friend at CIES)
and it was kind of funny that we both had trouble ordering since we weren't
familiar with a lot of the menu items -so our server helped out a lot. Jiwon
and I discussed how different eating out is here compared to what is customary
in S. Korea. I didn't realize that tipping is quite uncommon and, primarily
because of this, waiters/waitresses do not really "check in" with
their tables at all. In fact, she told me that a lot of restaurants have a
"bell system" where each table will have a button to press if they
need something. After lunch, we stopped for coffee at Catalina Café. We talked
about our past experiences working part-time as baristas and how it has had an
impact on our coffee preferences. Jiwon loved the hand-poured coffee that she
ordered -she even went back in to try their traditional macchiato as well. When
we left, it started to pour rain and it was surprising to see her so amazed by
it. She told me that she is used to light rain and hot weather, but the
prevalent thunderstorms followed by extreme humidity in Tallahassee is new for
her. I couldn't help but laugh as she filmed the rain with her phone while I
drove her home. As we all know, Florida weather is unpredictable to say the
least -____-
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