A Conversation with Daisy: Potbelly.. Again?

Another week, another trip to Potbelly. Daisy is starting to get more comfortable with speaking to me and actually made one of her first jokes about me. She poked fun about how I always request we meet at Potbelly, "You don't like BLUU food do you?" she asked while smiling. This was definitely a true statement, for earlier this semester I suffered from food poisoning and since then I have been weary to eating anything other than breakfast at the BLUU.

We sat down and talked a little bit more about what we do with academics. Daisy told me about the difficulty of the TOFU test and how it compares to the SAT test. Daisy's instructors told her that the TOFU test is quite difficult, so difficult that most American citizens would have a difficult time completing it. The test is long and dull and lasts over four hours. The subject matter she reads about is college level courses such as history and biology. As Daisy puts it "quite boring".

Putting myself in Daisy's shoes I realized how much of a challenge this test must have been for her. Any test that takes four hours is a difficult assessment, let alone one that is in a foreign language. On top of that she has to read about some of the dullest topics I've heard of!

The best equivalent I could come up with to compare is the SAT. But when I brought it up I only realized how much more simple my test was. She told me she was familiar with the SAT and how it only has three sections at a much shorter duration. I remember how only a few years ago I was slaving over that test trying to get good scores for potential colleges. Compared to the TOFU test, the SAT is a walk in the park!

I told Daisy about my courses and about my most challenging one, BIS. When she learned about my 30 page group report I had due at the end of the semester, Daisy flipped! She was shocked that I would be assigned such a difficult task. I had to explain to her the concept of group reports of course and suddenly the challenge was not as scary.

Conversations have become extremely fluid and it is great to see improvement from Daisy every single day!