On Monday, February 18th, I met with Yahyia at
CIES at 12:00. He wanted to go over a
reading passage that he needed to write a summary about. He understood all of the main points of the
passage, but just needed some help with certain vocabulary words. Words included in the passage attuned,
fraught, fixated, and obsessed. I helped
him figure out what the words could mean by using context clues from the
sentence, which helped him. Afterwards,
I gave him synonyms for each word and would use the words in a sentence so that
he could get an even better understanding.
Afterwards, I helped him write a short summary, but he seemed to have a
good understanding of what to do for this and did not really need that much
help. When we were done, I told him to
come up with at least two or three sentences for each vocabulary word so that
he could get extra practice.
My third conversation partner meeting was with Josue, my conversation partner from Paris, France. He suggested that we go to a restaurant for this meeting, and recommended the Colombian restaurant on Tennessee St. called "Super Perros". I had never been to this restaurant before, so it was interesting to not only converse with someone from outside of my culture but also at a cultural restaurant with an atmosphere and menu different than what I am used to. Most of the menu was in Spanish, so we were able to bond over trying to figure out what the menu was saying, and ended up sharing a lot of laughs over it. During our meeting, we caught up on how he was doing at CIES, what he's involved in in Tallahasee, and discussed deeper topics such as the current political affairs going on in France. This led to a grander discussion about American politics, and it turned out we had similar views. It was interesting to connect our ideas across border lines, realizing we all want the ...
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