On January 20th, I met Sulaiman at the same coffee shop. We discussed politics and the cultures of our homes. Sulaiman mentioned that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy, something that I didn’t know before. We then talked about democracy and other forms of government. During our conversation we realized that both of us studied political science for our degrees in university, so we had a discussion about different forms of government. Both of us also agreed that we typically don’t like talking about politics with other people. This conversation showed me that practice and comfortability really do encourage improvements. I noticed that Sulaiman was understanding me more easily and that we were talking about more complex things. We did use google translate quite a few times but not as much as we did for our first conversation.
My next tutoring session was with Turki. We met at the Starbucks on Tennessee Street, the usual spot, and started the session with a causal conversation about life and his short term English goals. Turki decided he didn't want to continue with the second session of CIES classes, and that he wanted to rather focus solely on passing the IELTS exam. He said he found the CIES classes to be helpful, but also distracting. He said he thinks he's gotten the most out of his classes and that it would be more productive for him to study on his own. Where I don't completely agree with his logic, it is his life and I trust his decision making. For this session he brought his own material that he wanted to focus on. This time it was a reading passage that I even found to be quite difficult, and I was once again impressed by his far reach in practice and ability. The reading passage was accompanied by a set of numerous comprehension questions that we reviewed and answered together. The qu...
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