Today I had my talk abroad conversation with Axelle and I had so many brain farts. I feel bad for her because it was really rough on my end. I don’t know if it was the accent or maybe I’m just foggy today, but I couldn’t even remember simple things like personality traits. WHAT! How embarrassing. And then I’m pretty sure that a few of my responses were not even what she was trying to ask me. For example, at one point it sounded like she asked if I wanted to get a car or an apartment and I said I do have a car, she seemed surprised by that answer so either she asked me something completely different and I just randomly said, “I have a car,” or maybe owning cars at my age in her country is not exactly the norm.

I also forgot like all the fruits and vegetables too, how? I have no idea because I really enjoyed learning that section in CMU. I struggled to say I prefer green beans but I forgot the word for beans and I was just like, “Je préfère des verts…..beans?” I wanted to crawl under the desk and hide.

Overall, I feel like this Talk Abroad conversation was not a good reflection of my knowledge, and I feel bad because I had to keep asking her to repeat what she was saying, and then I either answered wrong or not at all. At the end I felt like Axelle was really ready to end that call. She was nice but from the start of the call she didn’t seem all that interested in the conversation and then when I kept asking her to repeat, she looked kind of annoyed. Which honestly made me more nervous and may have contributed to me literally forgetting everything.