Date/Time: 29 October @ 12PM
Location: Chick-fil-A on campus
Topic discussed: Amal and I discussed the book that I was reading for my French Women Writer's Class, which was a graphic novel about a girl's life during the Iranian Revolution. She discussed with me more Saudi Arabian culture, and how she even wants a belly piercing and she would like to go with me.
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: I learned that the way Amal dressed, even with her arms and legs covered, would still be considered as "a slut" in Saudi Arabia. She told me again that the Saudi girls at CIES do not want to talk to her, and she thinks it is because she does not cover her whole head. We also talked about Saudi Arabian men, and how one of them is her friend, but she cannot talk to him with other Saudi Arabians around because they will think that they are dating. Saudi Arabians are apparently really great at creating rumors.
Apparently her first "culture shock" was the way people dressed in the US. She thought everyone would be wearing designer clothes, but instead girls were work out clothes to class and boys were lazy pajama pants.
Apparently her first "culture shock" was the way people dressed in the US. She thought everyone would be wearing designer clothes, but instead girls were work out clothes to class and boys were lazy pajama pants.
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