During our first lesson with Julie, we began with descriptive terms for people, ways of addressing younger and older people, and terms for relatives/family members. We engaged in conversation about our families using these new vocabulary terms and asked each other questions about our respective families. During the second session we continued with terms for dates and times, delving slightly more into numbers from 1 to 100. Most of the information for numbers and dates is review for me, although I am still having a tough time getting the days of the week in the right order.
With Thalia we continued working on familial descriptors, and performed role-playing for a conversation between two Indonesians over a family photo. For homework we were assigned to create a fiction about the family of Wayan, an Indonesian man with a large family. We continued our study of the textbook to build this text and I made my text into a description partially based on my drum teacher in Bali so that I could focus on Indonesian words for artists/musicians. We have all expressed interest in learning some slang words and vernacular language from Thalia, and as a younger person she considers herself more "in the know" about such vocabulary than Julie. I very much look forward to learning more about this, so that my Indonesian language skills can extend beyond sterile textbook language.
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