[Madison_Rose]

Conversation? I'm not great at it, but here's what helps me: plan things to talk about in advance. What interests you? For me, it's current events, so I read a quality newspaper for in-depth analysis of current news stories, then talk about them. Scientific American is really good for interesting things to talk about too. What do you know about her, her interests? Ask her about herself and pay attention to the answers

And if she specifically said "as friends" then you should assume she doesn't have any romantic feelings towards you, sorry. But you'll get to meet some of her friends - maybe one (or more) of them will fancy you