Serena CP#5

Date/Time: September 29^th 6:40-7:40pm

Location: Pong’s Boba Tea

Topic discussed: Cultural differences Korea v America

Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: During my meeting with Jimin we drove to the boba tea place attached to Mr. Roboto’s. Here we ordered some mochi ice cream to share. It was funny noticing some of the cultural differences that we just mentioned in class earlier today. I had made small talk with the cashiers as if we were friends. Later Jimin confirmed what we learned in class, which is that no one does that in Korea. She said that Koreans don’t socialize with strangers. I also threw her under the bus by introducing her to the cashiers, which she was shy about. Luckily one of the girls mentioned that she was a grad student of foreign language and was very familiar with CIES and the other one mentioned her brother was currently stationed in Korea for the army. Then on our drive back to CIES where her mom was picking her up I joked to Jimin about not saving a mochi to share with her friend. Then I offered her to take one of mine to give to her friend. She said no but because of what I learned in class I asked her two more times and she finally took one graciously.