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Ashley TS #7

This tutoring session was with Manal. She invited me to her home for it was during the weekend and she didn't want to ask her husband for a ride anywhere. I was happy to commute to her apartment and was even happier when she met me at the door with Arabic coffee and dessert in hand. She was a very accommodating host and gave me a warm welcome that I didn't expect. I was also taken aback at first, for she wasn't wearing her hijab. It took me a second to adjust for I had never seen her before without it, and enjoyed talking and teaching her without it covering her face and mouth the entire time. After chatting over dates, arabic coffee, and a home made dessert, we went over some of her previous homework assignments together, again focusing on her biggest weakness: grammar. Her daughter was at the house as well so that became a bit distracting, but also made the tutoring session more fun. Her daughter is learning English as well, so we went back and forth between intense grammar lessons, specifically focusing on adverbs and possessive adjectives, and basic english vocabulary. Her daughter really liked learning different colors so we spent a lot of time on those. It was a fun as well as productive session and I looked forward to the next meeting.

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