CP #6 Pamela Ting ting

theytheir 17 Ting ting and I met outside nin r the Wesscosaidbetcoulf ettercoulding. She is a Chinese student, from Beijing. she is hoping to enter the graduate program at FSU in the area of statistics.we talked a little about our family life and our areas of interest. Ting ting said that she is the only daughter and when she returns home in two years she hopes to work in Hong Kong. I asked would she consider taking a job in America, she said she could make a better living in China, and she wanted to help her parents. Hong Kong offers more opportunities, and her parents worked hard for her to achieve in her education so she wanted to make sure they were taken care of as they get older. American culture today is usually the reverse. Parents work hard to take care of their children and then their children leave home and only come home when they need their parents to take care of them. I told Ting ting there is still so much we can learn from Chinese customs and culture. Her English was exceptionally well. She said the hardest part of English for her is communication, not knowing exactly the right words to say. She was nervous about taking the TOEFL test because that was going to be difficult part of the test for her, the speaking and listening. But she said she had several years of intensive English language learning, grammar and reading so that was not going to be a problem.