On October, I visited Eastern Washington University. Then, I met a girl who is studying about Second Language Acquisition. I had some questions about SLA terms, and she tried to teach me very hard. She wants to be an ESL teacher, so she interested in talking with me. Sometimes I feel nervous to talk to native speakers, because it is not easy for them to understand my English and I feel sorry about that. It also wasn’t easy for her. However, I didn’t feel nervous at all, and I could feel her interest is true because of her face, attitude and behavior. Then, I felt want to have a good attitude like her when I talk to someone, because it makes my companion’s feeling good and confortable. I think sometimes how I am talking is more important than what I am talking about. In Public Speaking class, I learned that 93 percent of our credibility with listener come from our vocal qualities and visual characteristics. I thought it is too much, but now I think it may be true, Some of my friends especially boys said my first impression was not so good, so I need and want to change my behavior or attitude.
I went on a totally amazing Southwest trip with my classmates. The trip was my first time to go to the Southwest so everything was new to me. Sarah, Anikke and Bethany came with us. They made our trip more exciting. I’m happy I could go on this trip with them and I had a lot of great experiences. First, I really enjoyed New Mexico. It was chilly but not too cold. I went to the Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I liked the Old Town because there are many cute things and good restaurants in there. For example, I found a gate that was decorated with a lot of red chili peppers. I had never seen anything like that before so I was very surprised and it looked like a lot of flowers from a distance. The red chili peppers were absolutely gorgeous. Not only that, I found a great restaurant. I forgot the name of the restaurant but they have really delicious Mexican food. They gave me some Mexican chips for free and recommended that I eat the chips with honey. I really like Mexican chip