Amirah has a daughter named Reyna, and we spent the first ten minutes of our hour at that same table trying to figure out how to get me to pronounce the “R” correctly. Amirah informed me that I never succeeded, but I still got to see videos, pictures and recounts of her lively almost 2- year old, so I count it as a win. We discuss family life for a bit, and I can see she longs to be back home with her community. Social life is family life where she is from and the connections are strong and guarded by traditional values. She speaks about the difficulties of loneliness, despite the freedoms she sees and enjoys here, her home is in Medina and she will return there. Ibrahim says that she will teach and that he has hope to continue to study law to use English. She doesn’t speak too much about herself, and often looks to describe moments with her husband and daughter. She really wants her daughter to speak English as well, and that at home they try to practice with her so she can familiarize the sounds.
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