Will TS #4

 I was planing to meet at CIES with Marina on Friday, 9/13, but the timing didn't work out for either of us. We ended up going out for drinks later on that evening and I think it was very productive! Marina lives alone and has no family here. She has told me a few times that she feels like her English learning stops as soon as she gets home from school because she doesn't interact with many people outside of classes. She had also told me that she wanted to go out and explore more of Tallahassee but was a bit unmotivated to do it alone. We got together with another one of my friends and hung out for a few hours. We played cards and stopped frequently to explain words or phrases to her. The friend I was with is minoring in Italian and recently studied abroad in Italy, so she was very sympathetic to the plight of being a second language learner in another country. It was a lot of fun and definitely lowered both of our affective filters for our future sessions. 

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