• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  I spoke with Angel Cares. He's 22 years old and he lives in Chile. I chose to speak with him because he seemed nice and I liked his name.
• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
  I learned that he is studying psychology in college and that he's been in college for 4 years now. 
• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
  It helped me move towards my achievements because I didn't expect for him & I to talk about college. He asked me a lot of questions, which I thought was cool because I wasn't doing all the work. 
• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
  I think I did pretty well with asking questions that wasn't so boring. That's what random is all about.
• What specifically do you need to improve on? 
  I need to improve on my long sentences. Making sure that it sounds right.

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  I spoke with a man named Sergio and he was a native spanish speaker. This man invited me to private chat and I asked him if I could ask him questions for a class of mine. He was very polite and accepted. 

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
  I learned he was from spain. I asked about what kind of music was popular and what was on the radio. He told me what kind of music he listened to. He said he liked jazz and classical music.  

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
  It helped me understand that is spain, they listen to the same types of music we do, only the artists are speaking spanish.

• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
  I found very good answers to what types of music are popular in spain. I think it was good because he helped me understand that they don't only listen to flamenco or chahca or any other stereotypical spanish music. 

• What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)rc
  I wish I had asked more questions about the culture and not specifically to Sergio. 
  
  
  

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  -I spoke with Diana because she's a very close friend of mine & I just wanted to test out my spanish skills.
• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
  -I learned that she loves Italian food! 
• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
  -It helped me a lot because I was able to act normal and not try so hard.
• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
  -I tried to conjugate at the right moment.
• What specifically do you need to improve on? 
  -I think I need to improve on my vocabulary. 

Second Week:

Partners Name: Robert/ Mauro

City y Country: Peru/Buenos Aires

(The people on Livemocha would only talk to me a tiny bit.) 

Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner.

I spoke with a man on Livemocha, he messaged me because he was learning English and I am learning Spanish. Both men messaged me to talk so I just went with it.

What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

I learned Mauro lives in Buenos Aires, and Robert wants to learn to speak English.

How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

The more I speak in Spanish the more comfortable I become, Mauro knew no English so speaking to him forced me to only speak in Spanish. This was helpful but difficult and I found myself looking at word reference a lot

What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

I spoke only in Spanish and tried to keep a basic conversation. This needs to change, these conversations are awkward at best and using Livemocha is harder then expected. I want to figure out how to hold just a basic conversation before I try and learn anything about their culture.

¿Qué déportes important en Mexico?

¿Haces deportes?  

¿Qué deportes en muy grande en Mexico? 

¿Haces ves fútbol? 

¿Deportes es mucho importante en Mexico o arte es muy importante? 

¿Deportes en las escuela?

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  I spoke to some boy in Mexico. I choses him because he was the only one out of like 6 people that actually wrote me back.

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
  He plays tennis. 
  
  
• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
  I didn't know they played tennis in Mexico. He didn't really answer my questions. He was confused. Was my spanish not good enough? 
  
  
• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
  I learned a little bit about some sport stuff. It also wasn't to bad talking to someone I didn't know that lived in a different country. 
  
  
• What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
  I said "¿Qué deportes en muy grande en Mexico?" I meant es not en so I fixed it by doing the * and maybe thats why he was confused and signed off? 

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  I spoke with Max. He is my friend and I knew that we were good at helping each other. 

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

  I learned some things from him. More about him though rather than any spanish. 

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

  This interaction helped me because it was a great starting place for me. 

• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

  I tried to talk more about him instead of myself. 

• What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

  I need to talk more about myself and stop asking the other person questions.