Will TS #8 & 9

     I met with Marina yesterday for the first time in a little while. We’ve been having a hard time getting our schedules to line up so we planned to do an extra long session and make it count as two. We met from 4 PM to 5:40pm. Her writing had improved a lot since we last met. At the start of the session we worked on third conditionals. She was having trouble with combining “have had” in spots that only needed one of the words. We worked on it for a while and I think she got the hang of it by the end. We also worked on a draft of an email that she wanted to send to a professor in the business school. She is thinking about applying to the masters program for business analytics at FSU, and this professor could be a good connection for her. They met at a gala the other week and he offered to meet with her. As we were looking through the list of his published works, there was one about the commercialization of indigenous knowledge, and I paused because I thought it sounded interesting. We ended up talking about the meaning of the word indigenous for a while because Marina thought that it specifically referred to, a group of people that were treated poorly by another group of colonizing people. I thought it was interesting that while there is a correlation between indigenous people often being treated poorly by colonist, it does not necessarily have anything to do with the definition of the word indigenous. It was just an interesting observation that she had developed that perception of the word’s meaning. We got kind of sidetracked talking about that for a while. After that, we finished up a good draft of the email that she plans to send to the professor. All in all, it was a productive meeting.