Nicole CP 1

I met with Gloriana as my conversation partner.  Gloriana is from Costa Rica, in her first semester at Florida State.  She is 18 years old and this is her first time away from home for an extended period of time.  Her English is fairly advanced.  Gloriana is hoping to study Sports Management but her current classes consist of liberal studies courses.  Gloriana has traveled all around the world playing soccer so she has a unique perspective of things in life.  One of the hardest things for her being away from home is missing her family, she has a twin back in Costa Rica  and she misses him very much. Gloriana really would like to just focus on working to assimilate into life in the States and plans to use our meetings to ask any questions she has about new things here.  Gloriana is in the middle of her Spring training for soccer  so she's learning how to balance school, soccer and college life.  She has a teammate from Venezuela on her team and they are very close friends.  It's nice for her to have someone to speak Spanish with and just feel a little closer to home.  I'm excited to learn more about Gloriana and share more about the US with her!