Caroline: TS#14

Tutoring Session #14

Abdulaziz Ajeeli

February 28, 2020 at 12:30PM

This past Friday, Abdulaziz and I met for our weekly Friday tutoring lesson. However, given that we met at the end of the first week of his new CIES session, this meeting was less focused on learning and more on conversation. I asked him how his brief break was and he responded that it was good but quiet and said it felt nice to have time to relax and destress. Abdulaziz then shared that he had moved up to the 4A group, which is incredibly exciting and I expressed my admiration of his hard work in achieving such success. I asked him what he would like to focus on in our upcoming tutoring sessions and he expressed that he would like to improve his pronunciation as well as learn more condensed forms of American words (ex: "got to" vs "gotta). Overall, his goal appears to be improving his conversational abilities to achieve more fluidity and a quicker pace in his speech. We then briefly chatted about my choice to go to South Korea to teach English as well as the growing issue of the Corona virus. When I told him that I would have to teach on Saturdays, he expressed that weekend school wasn't strange to him as he went to school on Sundays while growing up in Saudi Arabia. This surprised me, and we briefly chatted about cultural differences in schooling among regions. Overall, I am incredibly proud of the work Abdulaziz has accomplished in his time in CIES so far and I look forward to helping him further in the future.