Anna TP #8

Anna Prorok

September 23, 2014

Tutoring Session No. 8

Chick-fil-A, West Tennessee Street

Today was another great tutoring session with Nina and Abdul. The majority of the session was homework help that Abdul wanted to work on and Nina helped as well. I also had a few worksheets for them to complete together and we discussed the discussion questions that were provided on each sheet. The two sheets were on two different aspects of culture. They were from a British website so I had to improvise a little bit, but nonetheless made it work. 

The first worksheet was about marriage. It talked about the royal family and the marriage between Princess Diana, Prince Charles, and the third party, Camilla Parker Bowles. Mainly the worksheet was about marriage and how marriage worked in different countries. We all talked about it together and I was able to get really interesting viewpoints on marriage in Brazil and in Saudi Arabia. A royal family was also talked about and Abdul could relate because he was under the rule of a King (with a few wives) in Saudi Arabia, something Nina and I weren't used to. 

The next worksheet focused on football (soccer) which was right up Nina's alley. She, being from Brazil, is a huge fan of soccer and was able to give Abdul and I a lot of information (while practicing her reading and speaking skills). Abdul was not as familiar with soccer and did not see much point in the game saying, "It's a waste of time", and I'm sure you can tell what Nina's response was. Nonetheless, it was a lot of fun for them and me as well getting to learn a little bit about their cultures while also comparing soccer to American football (e.g., how excited people get and how devoted they are to the game).

We ended the session by scheduling our next meeting. We ended up deciding to have a dinner together where Nina cooked something from Brazil, Abdul cooked something from Saudi Arabia, and I cooked something that was Polish.