I met with Jjassas today at Starbucks. He is from Saudi Arabia and is taking the classes at CIES to be able to receive his Master's in social work. He is still very new to the English language so we only focused on very simple conversation topics. We discussed where we were from, what we were studying, and the weather in Tallahassee. We had a few miscommunications and I realized that I needed to speak in more simple terms to be understood. He is very kind and bought me a coffee! Quite the gentleman!
Jjassas is a fan of American food like Chic-fil-a and Pizza Hut I told him he should try out some others restaurants in town and we decided to get dinner for our next meeting. He also enjoys movies, so I told him about the free movies at the SLC. I tried to inform him of some things to do near campus since he does not have a car.
Hopefully we can start to talk about more complex ideas in our next sessions.
Great advice, Katelyn!
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