I attended Ramin's cultural workshop for my second conversation partner meeting. I was so excited to go to the workshop this week because I had so much fun last time! We met in the basement of CIES again, and there were so many more students than I remember!
This week ,we were separated into groups and given a worksheet on the "Cultural Iceberg". It was a worksheet that gave cultural situations and asked if they were implicit or explicit. I was in a group with two girls from Saudi Arabia, and it was so much fun talking with them. We discussed topics such as holidays, religious views, and family traditions. I was surprised that our cultures had a lot more in common than I thought that they would! It definitely helped me to be more open minded.
It was interesting to me that one of the Arabic girls was more open minded to American Culture than the other. She was talking about songs that she liked, and foods, while the other girl was not about it at all. It was also interesting to me that they were both talking about their husbands, yet they were my age.
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