This meeting was my first opportunity to meet with a conversation partner since I had to drop the TEFL class. I got to pair up with Sulaiman again and, just like our first meeting, we met at the Paper Fox café on Pensacola. I just got a muffin, but Sulaiman was drinking a coffee, which lead us to talk about our respective tastes in coffee and we talked a little about Arabian coffee and how Sulaiman like to prepare it for himself. Sulaiman’s use and understanding of English seems to have improved. We talked about hopeful travel destinations and he was able to talk about them in detail. We especially discussed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; a country he had always wanted to go to, and one that I had visited and to which I had/ have been hoping to go back. We talked about visiting South America and I got to teach Sulaiman a little Spanish, which he loved and said he was going to use since he roommate spoke Spanish.
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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