Conference Number 2

I recently went to the Florida Regional Writing Center Conference, where I had the opportunity of meeting the director of the Florida International University Writing Center, Ms. Char Eberly. I attended her dynamic session, and afterward spoke briefly with her about my visit to the FIU writing center. She said that she only has two Hispanic tutors on the staff, and that as far as she knew, they did not use Spanish in the sessions. She asked if I was able to gain anything from my observations at the writing center. I told her that although I did not observe any Spanish being used in the session, that the opportunity was not directly presented because the students were not Hispanic. Ms. Eberly laughed and extended the opportunity to visit the center whenever I wanted if I needed more research.