For my third conversation partner meeting, I attended Ramin's cultural workshop on thursday. I have been enjoying these workshops so much, and I was really excited to attend them again!
Today in Ramin's class, we separated into groups with CIES students. I was in a group with David (TEFL student), a south korean student, and a Saudi Arabian student. We were given a list of cultural activities and were to discuss how these were carried out in our culture. The list included things like greeting the elderly, how close you stand to someone when speaking with them, and how you interact with a teacher. I was surprised at how different the three of our cultures were!! Korean and Arabic culture seems to be a lot more personable than American Culture. We then were given a task to pick one aspect to focus on, and we would be giving a presentation on them to the class. Our group chose greeting the elderly.
I am so excited to keep working with my group, they are all so nice!
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