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S41088 USIL (Family Life/ Meaning of Life/ Stereotypes and Prejudices)

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S41088 USIL (Family Life/ Meaning of Life/ Stereotypes and Prejudices)

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Finally, its the day! I am totally excited with my first class with the Peruvians. They are super nice and i really like them. i chat with my partner, Aakash first as we had problem with the live video. So we start with self introduction. It was really awesome as my partner in a mixed blood! His father is an Indian while his mother is a Peruvian. That is why he did not look so much as Latino. During our discussion, we discussed a lot about life and meaning of life. Most of them are Christians and a few are Atheist. We have same perspective as we need to be good towards others and respect each other. We also discussed about streotypes and prejudices and I asked them what they are thinking about Islam. I am so glas to hear that their professor's thought. He believed that Muslims are good people and not terrorists and he said that shame on the people that said Islam are bad. Honestly i found that classes with USIL are much happening and enjoying compared to ECU caused they are much more friendly and easy going. I'm glad to have friends from South American cause I never thought that I can have friends from there

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I missed my first class with Peruvians. It was really dissapointing because i got migraine that morning and cant attend the class. I heard from my classmates that they are so nice, friendly and beautiful and handsome! When Dr Azza distributed our partners name i was so excited to know about my partner cause from his name i could feel that he is not a true latino and totally cant wait for next class

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Today we had our last class with our fellow members from ECU. We have to present our collaborative project. It was really awesome as we can present about the attractiveness of our beloved country Malaysia to them. At the same time, we can know about their country too. So my partner, Sabrina and I decided to present about food and beverages in both country. We found a few simillarities in food especially fast foods. At the end of our class we had photo session for memmory. I feel so happy to have classes with the and it was a great experience to have chats and videos with them

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Today we had our discussion about stereotypes and prejudices. I have problem to differentiate between stereotypes and prejudices but after the class i think that i can differentiate those two. Islamophobia is famous in US. So i asked them especially my partner cause she is a muslim about the stereotypes and prejudices involving muslim there. She said that some people believed that Muslims bring harm to them however it not trully happened. And we also share our streotypes and prejudices occured in Malaysia. Basically it involves between races. For instance, malays believe that chinese are good in mathematics and vice versa

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S41088 ECU (Family Life/ Meaning of Life)

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S41088 ECU (Family Life/ Meaning of Life)

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Today we had our discussion about family life and meaning of life. My partner Sabrina is an Indian girl who lived in the United States. I'm so happy to know her as I also have the Indian blood. She told me that she moved to US when she was 5 years old and her family still remember their culture although living in America. Most of the ECU students are staying at the hostel so they will spend their weekends with their families.  They believe that life is just to do good things to others especially families. But as a Muslim, i believe that our main purpose of life is to obey and follow the rules. Apart from that, we have to do nice things to others and study hard to become a better person.

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Today was our last webcam session with the students from Peru. It was our collaborative project presentation day. My partner and I decided to share some of the famous places presence in both countries. My partner had presented on Machu picchu, one of the seven wonders of the world and some other interesting places. It was a very fine presentation. We ended the session by taking some pictures with them. At the same time, it was also our last day of the class. It was an awesome experience obtained from the course. Thanks to my awesome lecturer's Dr Azza and Mr Saef, and my fun filled coursemate who always make the class enjoyable.

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S38711 USIL (Family Life/Meaning of Life/Stereotyrpes and Prejudices) 

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S38711 USIL (Family Life/Meaning of Life/Stereotyrpes and Prejudices) 

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Today we had our second webcam session and our first chatting session with the students from Peru. My partner name was Andrea. I started my conversation by wishing her on the victory of the Peru national soccer team which had qualified for the FIFA World Cup. We had discussed more in details about the things spoken on the previous webcam session. During the webcam session, we had shared details of our family members. Then, we had shared our purpose of living in this world. Most of the answers given were to live happily. Lastly, we had shared some stereotypes and prejudices that are in Malaysia and in Peru. We had found that the Peruvian also have stereotypes and prejudices even though they are having one major race. In comparison to Malaysia that have stereotypes and prejudices mostly among the three major races.

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S38711 USIL (Introduction/College Life) 

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Today we had our new link of webcam with the students from Peru. They were so friendly and very involved in the conversation. We shared many things on the first meeting such as the education system, currency value, foods, part time job and sports. We found that the intake of college students there are very early which are around 18 years old. At the same time , Peruvian use dollar as their national currency. We also get to know their famous foods which are civiche and purple corn drink. There are also students who do part time job while studying to manage their expenses. Lastly, we had observed that the Peruvian are very obsessed with soccer. We ended the webcam session with some singing. It was a very good start on that day.

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Today we had our last webcam with the students from the USA. It was our collaborative project presentation day. We had shared some interesting knowledges on both countries. I had presented on the famous places that are in Malaysia while my partner presented her country famous places. We had a small photo session with them. It was a very great experience in knowing them and their cultures.

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Today we had our third webcam with the students from the USA. We had the privileged to do the webcam only for one hour as it was Halloween on that day. They had put on their Halloween outfit and we also had put on our traditonal attire. We shared some knowledges under the title of stereotypes and prejudices. This week I was able to do my chatting as my partner was presence. My partner told her stereotype and prejudices on Malaysia. She was thinking that Malaysia is an undeveloped country and is very rural. I corrected her wrong perception by saying that Malaysia is a developing country with many urban areas. I also had told my stereotype and prejudices on USA. I told that USA is a country that has less working opportunity by seeing the current issue occurred there. She corrected me and saying that it was wrong and their government offers many jobs there. On that day, I had wore my traditional attire called vesthi and jippa. Jippa is an Indian traditional shirt that is wear usually during Deepavali or when they are going to the temple whereas vesthi is a Indian traditional trouser looks alike which is wear by tying it around the waist

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S38711 ECU (Family Life/Meaning of Life) 

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S38711 ECU (Family Life/Meaning of Life) 

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Today we had our second webcam with the students from the USA. We shared a lot of things under the title of family life /meaning of life. We shared about families and where they are staying.We found that most of their families are living in the town and near to the university. They are traveling everyday from their house to the university. They also shared their weekend activities like going to their worship place with the families. There are also many events that takes place there such as Christmas and Halloween. At the same time, most of the students prefer to eat fast food such as MacDonald and Pizza. Some of the students also love spicy food but some hate them. Lastly, they also shared their favorite musicians such as Justin Bieber and Zayn Malik. This week also l haven't been able to do the chatting with my partner due to her absence.

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Jackelin Xiomy Corzo Galván(USIL) & Siti Nadhirah Wahidi (UMT)

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ECU-UMT Collaborative Project by Nadhirah Wahidi

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ECU-UMT Collaborative Project by Nadhirah Wahidi

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Attractions

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Cuisine

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UK36175 USIL (FAMILY LIFE/MEANING OF LIFE/STEREOTYPE AND PREJUDICES)

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UK36175 USIL (FAMILY LIFE/MEANING OF LIFE/STEREOTYPE AND PREJUDICES)

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My partner from USIL is Luis. During the session we talk about our self and getting to know each other. Luis as a lot of question regarding Islam which I was very happy to answer and made feel excited as he like to know more about Islam. He did as about what do Islam worship and believes. I answered the best to my knowledge. I also explained to him about halal haram, mostly about food. He said that he is not a religious person. Soon after we continue the topic during group video chatting. Mostly during video chat we talk about the stereotype and prejudice in Malaysia for example the Malay which are always late or the Chinese that good in math. They also mention about the people prejudice about how their people eats cat which is not true. Later, we talk about food in our country. We introduced durian to them and explain on why the fruit is often avoid by foreigner.

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UK36175 USIL (INTRODUCTION/UNIVERSITY LIFE) 

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UK36175 USIL (INTRODUCTION/UNIVERSITY LIFE) 

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On the first video session, we all introduce our self. Soon after that we start to talk about how we live as a university student. We also talk about the duration of our studies. Their university seem to have longer duration of studies due to their education system but usually would finish around the same age of our graduates. Since the class consist of final year student we also talk about industrial training. They said that they have the freedom to choose when to have their training compared to Malaysian education system which industrial training was set from the start. We also mention about the location of UMT that is near the beach and about our currency with are lower than their currency.Later, we talk about part-time job. They ask if our student did a part-time job to pay for cost of living. The answer was similar as both Malaysian and Peruvian student do sometime did a part-time job to earn some pocket money. Then, we talk about the countries favourite sport which are football. The Peruvian take their football seriously. They sing their football cheer song and another song in their language. As a respond we sang ‘rasa sayang’.

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UK36175 ECU (FAMILY LIFE/MEANING OF LIFE)

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UK36175 ECU (FAMILY LIFE/MEANING OF LIFE)

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Today was awesome. My partner and I got to know a lot about the Americans culture and also family life. Jacob also said Selamat Pagi while we were chatting. I was very happy with his effort in learning Bahasa Malaysia. He also belong to a small family like I do and also own a dog. Usually Christians goes to church on Sunday morning. We talk about Halloween and what people do on the day. My partner explain a bit about trick or treat that usually for the children where they would ask for candy from door to door neighbour. Adult would have Halloween party. The most important is the costume on Halloween. People can dress up as anything especially scary costume. On that day there was a student who where a granny costume.

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Today my partner and I talk about stereotype and prejudices that exist in our country. Most thing are similar between the US and Malaysia but it seem like the problem is worst in the United States. The most common were about appearances and also religion. As for American, Jacob mention the he also have experience the matter where he was called a hillbilly. I have heard the terms before but does not really understand the meaning before being explained by Jacob. He said the term was to say that a person have act or appear as countryside people which are uneducated and unappealing appearance. I also explained to him about the stereotype and prejudices in Malaysia. Some that I mention was the need to have fair appearance to be beautiful and also about the stereotype and prejudices between races.

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UK35446 Reflection (Stereotypes and Prejudices)

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UK35446 Reflection (Stereotypes and Prejudices)

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Today we have one hour session with ECU students because they will have Halloween celebration and we only chatting with each other as there are some problems with video conferencing. During this session we chatting about the stereotypes and prejudices in both of our country. My partner said that people always think that Americans are fat and lazy. Some of them also say that Americans are sometimes rude to others. As for Malaysian, we tend to think that Chinese usually have problems to cooperate with Malay students in group project because they always think that Malay students are lazy. Because of different races, and different in dialect for every state in Malaysia, people tend to talk about racism. As an example, people always saying that Kelantanese usually don’t make friends with people from other state and they always saying that Kelantanese tend to forget their friends (other state) when they were with their Kelantanese friends. But as we grow up, we meet with a lot of people with a lot habits, and different thinking so we shouldn’t be a stereotypes people that judges others because others will judge us too.

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UK35446 Reflection (Family and Religion/Meaning of Life)

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UK35446 Reflection (Family and Religion/Meaning of Life)

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Based on the topic about family and religion, I know more about the major religion of United States which is Christian and about the family function. They said that some of them practice their religion in life and also go to church and some may not do that. How do they practice the religion is based on what the family had done and what they had been tau
ght since they were young. The students at ECU universities stay by themselves and away from their parents so they have to take care of everything just by themselves. They say that they want to achieve their dream and successful in their life just like the others. The usual age for them to being selected to the university is about 20 years old and above which is a little bit different compared to Malaysia whereas here we will further our degree at the age of 19 or 20 if we have completed our matriculation, or we have taken STPM (Pra-Universities). Some students get selected to further their diploma at 18 years old after finished their SPM. Family and religion of the people around US and Malaysia may differ in several cases which Malaysia has multiple races so people on Malaysia also has several religion which is Islam, Buddhist, and Christian. As for meaning of life, it may differ because different person has different philosophy of life. So we also have different dreams and different thing that we want to achieve. As for my partner, he said that he want to travel around the world because he loves to travel and he had been to several country such as Thailand and Indonesia.

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Today I video link with East Carolina University friends, I know about their daily food and surrounding of their college. They don't have many food options around they college and many squirrels around their college. I think next link we should have mic too , so our sound can be more clearly to them.

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It's a really good experience I had today. I like chatting better because they don't really heard the words I'm saying. Maybe because pronunciations barrier. It's real awesome

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There don't have many food options near their college and many squirrels around their college.

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Today I video link with East Carolina University friends, I know about their daily food and surrounding of their college.

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Today we had our first link with some of the ECU student. i learnt that the drinking age in US is 21 years old. Other than that, the student there are compulsory to stay in their campus during the freshman year or known as first year in Malaysia. However, the student there got to choose to whether continue staying in campus or staying outside after the freshman year. My partner from ECU is taking bs in business and hope to own her own bakery one day. I hope that i will get along with my partner because she seems quiet and i cant get her talking. last but not least, its 12 hours different from Malaysia and the Unites states.

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Second Reflection

Today, we met new friends from East Carolina University.  We exchanged questions about our daily college life with them although I can't really hear their voices clearly in the video just now, it's exciting because we gained more knowledge about the US students life.  It's quite wonderful because they have 4 seasons there which they can experienced different atmosphere such as autumn, winter, spring and holidays during summer! They have the fraternities and sororities life in campus (same goes here such as PALAPES, WATANIAH, etc.) which I would like to know more. There are so much to know and hopefully I can get them on the next class!

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Second Reflection

Today, I learned some of US students daily routine while they are in the university. Besides, we also shared some of our routine in our university. Asian university routine has some different compared to the US's student. The celebration also have much more difference between us and them. In the video chatting, they also explained to us what is Halloween all about and it is interesting for sure. While in the chat room, i able to chat with two of the US's students which is Carlos and Marissa. They shared to me about what are courses they studying and they are interested to hear about our university sea survival.  While chatting, they are at 9.30 pm which is they are attending night class while ours here just a start of the day which is 9.30 am. I am looking forward for the next class, can't wait to explore more experiences sharing from other country!

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First video linking with East Carolina University students. Had a good time during video chatting eventhough i don't talk much as i am having cold and bad sore throat. Fortunately , i had a good time chatting with my partner, Taylor. We knew each other's more.  My partner is a major in Event Planning. She said that she loves to involve in handling concerts and events. Besides that, they also shared fun facts about Halloween. It is basically about what they do,why pumpkin is related to Halloween and what costume they will wear during the celebration. We also shared about our total credit ours and what UMT main course are all about. They are also interested in what we do during our free time and what sports we prefer to do in university. We said that the major sports in UMT is soccer. Till we meet again on the next class!

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2nd reflection

So today we have our first video with our friends from US. It was totally awesome because we managed to communicate with each other. Today i knew about United States’s educational system which is different from us. We also knew about their college life which were so interesting. We managed to see their university based on their corporate video. I hope that we can share experience and ideas through this courses and enhance our commu

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Hi everyone.My friends and I have had the privilege to do our first video conference session with our friends from the United States today. It was a very nice experience as there were a lots of knowledge sharing occurred. But, I were not able to do my chatting yet with my partner as she was absent.Looking forward for the next week class

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The first video conference with oversea students that I never have before. It's so good to meet new friends from the other corner of Earth. After chatting with ECU students, we know that the age of them to enter college is at 18-19 years old, just right after they finish high school. They also tell us about their festival that they will celebrate in USA such as Christmas, Halloween and Easter. We told each other about our college life. I enjoyed this morning session But I hope the sound system will be improved next week and my performance as well

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I enjoy this class very much because this is the first time I talk to foreigners from the other country. But its quite sad because I can't hear their voice quite well. From the video conferencing, we know that they celebrate many kind of celebration such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween and others. But they have explain about how the celebration of Halloween quite details such as about the costume, the candy, pumpkin and so on. This celebration really interesting as there is no Halloween celebration in Malaysia. Furthermore, we also talk about our college life. They explain about their college life and it was compulsory to stay at the college during first year same as UMT but they could choose to stay at college or rent a house when finished the fist year. In addition, when we assigned to chat with our partner, I have chat a little bit with my partner. We managed to share something and regarding travel topic and of course we also talk about food. I hope we could share our opinion regarding many things especially what happen at Malaysia and US. In a nutshell, I enjoy this class and I hope that I will have a happy time during this class.

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I'm so excited. This is my first time doing video conference. Luckily, my partner is friendly person. She told me how her life at university. She can bring puppy to class. And study in event planning. She told me after graded she can travel with this course with job opportunities. They eat pizza, sausage, and breads. We share what music that we heard.

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Today I got a new friend from ecu ! His name is Jacob and he is mischievous.We chatted before class on facebook. It was nice to know about others from other part of the world. We can relate with each other for most things. They were very friendly. It was nice to get to talk and chat with them and tried to understand each other style of living.This will help we to understand other culture better.We talk about holiday, food, language and how we spent our free timeLooking forward to other linking session :)

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I'm so excited to be in this class. My english is not very good and I'm not confident with my english. My hope for this class I can improve my english and be more confident while speaking.

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I like to talk English With this society 💖

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I enjoy this sharing moment. Its good :)

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Hi, nice to meet you all.

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This was a fun class where I get to make new friends and improve my english as well.

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Hi, everyone

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It's was a fun class. I want improve my english.

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Hello everyone! 😁
I had fun knowing all new friends during the first class although it was during a night time :D hope that we could get along well in the class for the whole semester.

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Hello.. nice to meet you all. looking forward to know more about you guys and improve my english

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Hai and assalamualaikum.. i am glad that i attend tonight which i get to know people and of course myself.. cheers 😁

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Bello

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Hello, i am glad to be one of the part of this class. My hope for this class is i hope that i can learn and socializing more with people from other courses and other country as well. My expectation from this class is i expect to be good and more knowledgeable  about the various culture all over the world! 🤓👾✨

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Ambrose
What I hope and expect from this course is that, I can learn more about people from all around the world and to get more updated about what's happening around the world

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HellO, nice to meet you all!!
A good platform for me to speak n learn English 😀😀
Hope can be more talkative in class
Looking forward to know more friends and share experiences

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I expect that I can gain more knowledge on global culture deeply as it also relates to my course and hopefully my self-esteem will rise up at the end of this semester. Gambate!! 💖

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Hi,
So today i feel so happy as i know new friends! And i know few things about them. I hope that with this course i can build my confidence in communication and share ideas.

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Hi Today I get to make new friends and learn more about them. I was also able to build my confidence in interacting with new people and speaking in english.I am able to open up to new people about me. I am hoping to make more friend and just have fun doing it !