Kari_TP3

Today I met up with my tutee Sangwon and we worked primarily on speaking and listening. I learned that besides being a master in Tae Kwan Do, Sangwon also enjoys snowboarding, but he broke his wrist when he was 14. Even so, he still enjoys it. On one of our topics, I was asking him if there were any Korean stories from his childhood that he really enjoyed, but he couldn't really think of any. But he also mentioned that he didn't read a lot growing up because he was in Tae Kwan Do. He also mentioned that people who become masters in sports don't have to go to school, and that usually they get a scholarship that allows them to go to a university. So, that's why he's not really used to reading and the whole aspect of school. When we were talking about food and differences in it between American and Korean, he like many of the other students I've spoken to, said that American food is really greasy and he doesn't really like it. He was also telling me about how popular sushi is in South Korea because it's surrounded on three sides by the ocean. He said one of the most popular dishes is taking a live squid, cutting off the legs while it's still alive and eating it! I admitted to him that, that seemed a little taboo, but it still sounded like something I'd be willing to try. The other topic that Sangwon needs to work on still is reading. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of my personal books up in Tally with me, so if anyone has recommendations for short stories that I could pass on to Sangwon, that would be appreciated.