My First Foreign Interface

               

             First week of the year dated January 7, 2012, I encountered new friend, a nice Korean friend who leaves smiles in my memory. And that was my first foreign interface.Saturday morning Mr. Jason Patalinghug was our first subject teacher and he told us that we were going to meet Korean students who studied English here in CTU. As I hear those words a mixed emotion rambled into my whole being. I don’t know what to do and I don’t know what to say I am frozen, but then later my courage started to build-up since Mr. Patalinghug gave me a partner whom I can be with.

                 Choi Sang Jun was our new Korean friend and we called him June as his English name. He is twenty years old born on January 21, 1991. He loves to play badminton as his sports, and he has three brothers including him and he was the second born. He stays here in the Philippines just a week before we had met for he wants to study English language. He wants to explore the different views owned by our country, indeed he loves to live here in Philippines not just it has a nice places but the individual personality of the Filipinos. To have those words is our pride, and it makes me pause for a while to realize the status of our country. Yes, it’s true we don’t have those material things owned by other countries but we have the real treasure that can never be bought nor sold, it’s our culture and values. As our conversation goes I found him not comfortable in dealing his words it was carefully worded and he finds difficulty when it comes to spelling, pronunciation, diction as well as the proper usage of pronoun. He was the one who conducted the interview but still we guided him in doing it. After the task I thought that was over but as they presented it in front together with their Korean classmates they introduce us in front individually.

   And I am very  thankful that  once in my life history I encountered Korean friend who brought smiles in my heart in an expected day.