On Thursday we had our sixth meeting with Gayeon and Junhyeok. We met at Tullintori, because there is a shop called East Asia Mart that sells for example foods from Korea, which I think is nice for exchange students because they get to eat foods familiar for them.
First we went to see some dresses, because I wanted so. 
The dresses were on display in a small gallery, and there weren’t many evening gowns, so it was a quick visit. After that we went to the East Asia Mart. There were a lot of items and foods that you can’t buy from a regular store in Finland. It was quite nice and interesting to hear about the foods there from Junhyeok and Gayeon.
After that we went to a cafe to study.
This time I hadn’t prepared any words in Finnish to teach but instead I told about Finnish culture and made them listen to some Finnish music, old and new. It was difficult to decide what to tell about Finnish culture, and it was also difficult to tell and explain aspects of it. I had prepared some material about it, but I didn’t prepare myself to tell about the culture.
Gayeon had prepared some information about Korean food with pictures. In Korea there are a lot of dishes that we don’t eat in Finland, and there are no translations either. It would be nice to go to Korea sometime and taste those dishes even though they might be a bit too spicy for me.
Junhyeok had prepared some basic words about culture and question words and location words also. It is fun to learn about how to make sentences in Korean. I still struggle a bit reading Korean, but I’m getting better slowly.
I think this meeting was good and we were comfortable with each other. See you next time!
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