2. Scheduling With Julia: Conversation Partner

Julia is one of the busiest people I have ever met. Whether it be with her children or with school, Julia seems to always be doing something. Therefore, I have found it hard to schedule meetings with her. We always seem to be on different schedules.
One thing that has helped is facebook. About a month ago, Julia befriended me via facebook. The conversation hasn't stopped since. It was easy to ask her questions and get to know her a little better because she had time to edit her writing. It made it easier to understand. I learned more than I thought possible about South Korea and Julia. In the same regard, Julia also became familiar with my life and everything that goes with it.
Although this was great, I wanted to meet Julia in person more often. We decided to set up two times to meet each week. Then if one of the times doesn't work out, we always have a second option. At least, that is what I thought we were going to do. At first, Julia did not get this.  It is a struggle with the language barrier, but eventually we were on the same page.
So, I finally met with Julia again in person. It had been awhile since we last met, but we had been talking for a long time so we picked up right where we left off. I talked to her about sports and her children mostly. She is very proud of her children. She said that their English was better than hers, when at the beginning of the year it was worse.
The thing that I took most from this meeting and the build-up to it, is the language barrier. It is very difficult to communicate with someone that doesn't speak much of your language, if any at all. Every culture is different and every language is different. It might not be acceptable to talk with someone without referring to them with a title in some countries, and others are more laid back about that. This is just an example and was not a problem for Julia and myself. I learned to be more accepting through this experience with Julia. Though the language barrier is difficult and something that people need to learn how to get past. It was an interesting experience building-up and finally meeting Julia for the second time and I couldn't wait to meet her again.