Date/Time: September 29th
8:15-10:15pm
Location: Starbucks
Topic discussed:
Cultural differences Turkey v America
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: Jen
Dickinson sent out an activity called the cultural iceberg to stimulate thought
about surface and deeper level aspects of culture. In the activity one topic mentioned
was gift-giving customs which became the first topic that Deniz curiously
inquired about. I never really thought about this custom in America and explained
to him that it really depended on the individual and the way one was raised. We
then talked about political issues especially the topic of Trump vs Clinton. He
asked me what I thought of Trump and I explained that I see him as being very
unaccepting of different cultures and ethnicities. He wondered why people like
him so much and I tried to explain this to the best of my ability. I also
checked in with Deniz in regards to how his other two conversation meetings
have been. He is super motivated to master his English by practicing as much as
he can, so previously I had shared his contact info with two classmates from
TEFL. He told me that both the meetings had been enjoyable and he found them to
be beneficial as well.
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