Evan CP#1

    My first time meeting Jihye went quite well. Though there was a minor hiccup immediately prior to our meeting. I had no clue what she looked like nor did I have any inclination as to what type of person I should have been looking for. All this culminated in a slight;y embarrassing moment of us briefly standing directly next to each other, neither aware we had found each other, more or less. Despite initial obstacles, our meeting progress with us getting to know each other. I quickly learned she left South Korea and followed her husband to Milwaukee, where they  spent a few years only to move to Tallahassee. She took up classes at the CIES so that she could return to school and pursue her master's degree. For the time being, she is only studying English. Obviously, I told her why I was in Tallahassee in kind, and therefore briefly discussed my classes, including my ethics class pertaining to Karl Marx. This quickly became common ground as her husband and she met in a study group for a class on Marx. Nonetheless, we continued our conversation, touching on a number of subjects like the stubborn American attitude, the lack of masks and so forth. She found it odd that Americans are so averse to wearing their masks. She questioned me as to what I thought on the matter, but truthfully I had no answer for her. Our meeting ended not much more than an hour after it began. 

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