NARRATOR：

Listen to a conversation between two students

MALE STUDENT：

Hey, Lisa! How are you? Any big plans for summer break?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Well, I thought I knew what my plans were... but now I'm not sure.

MALE STUDENT：

How come?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Well, you know how we're required to take a foreign language course before we graduate?

MALE STUDENT：

Yeah?

FEMALE STUDENT：

I want to take it this summer, since I'm graduating next year and I'll have a busy course schedule.

So I signed up to take a Russian course online over the summer, because I'm hoping to take a trip to Russia at some point.

MALE STUDENT：

Online? That's cool...

you wouldn't have to stay around campus and you could do it from home.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Exactly, you do everything over the Internet.

But not enough people signed up for the class, so they canceled it.

Now I don't know what to do-I still need to fulfill the requirement.

MALE STUDENT：

Well, could you take a Russian class on campus this summer instead of the online course?

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah, there is a regular Russian class being offered on campus.

And it has space, so I could sign up...

and just stay in the dorms this summer, and live on campus.

MALE STUDENT：

OK.

FEMALE STUDENT：

I was looking forward to being home this summer, though, and spending some time with my family.

My sister's coming back from China-she's been working there for a year, and I haven't seen her.

MALE STUDENT：

Oh, that's disappointing.

FEMALE STUDENT：

I checked, though, and I could take a different language course online.

There's one being offered in Spanish.

MALE STUDENT：

Great! So why don't you just do that?

You'd be able to spend time with your sister.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Yeah, but I'm not that excited about taking Spanish.

I thought it would be fun to learn some Russian... it's more interesting to me.

Though at least this way I could get the requirement out of the way... so I don't know.