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Hussam’s last day was bittersweet, we had a really great dynamic and once I figured out what kind of assignments were his favorite, the tutoring sessions were successful. I even enjoyed picking out the articles and vocabulary words for him, it made me think and he always took them very seriously, especially when they related to his field.

For our last day I decided to lighten up on the psychology articles and chose instead to give him a fun reading assignment…The Hunger Games. I tried to pick a part of the book which would be action packed and grab his attention, I decided to focus on the scene where Katniss is about to enter the field and is trying to decide whether or not to take Heymitch’s advice and run for the woods or attempt to gather supplies at the cornucopia. The effect wasn’t quite the same as Hussam read it, but he was able to follow the language fairly easily minus the whole cornucopia thing, he figured it out though once I drew a picture. He said he really liked the book and felt that the difficulty level was perfect for him! I know he was trying to figure out conversation topics for meeting people and I figured that The Hunger Games was pretty popular, if he found himself at a loss of topics when meeting people on campus he could bring the book up…I think most people have read the book, seen the movie or heard enough about it to have some sort of opinion. He said he couldn’t wait to buy the book once he returned to Missouri and that we could talk about it online. He was also fascinated by my Kindle Fire on which we did most of the assignments and reading, he decided he would get one of those too!

Me and Hussam on his last day :(

Before we left we got one of his friends to take a picture of us, it was kind of funny because he was nervous to get too close to me (we had had a previous conversation before where he told me girls make him uncomfortable) so we have an awkward distance between us. Either way, we felt it was appropriate to take the picture standing in front of a map of the U.S.A. So far we have kept in touch; I wish him the best in everything!