Will Stone - TP 10

I didn’t hear from Shaykhah for a couple of days. When I finally did call her, her and Mohammad were in Tampa visiting some family. She told me over the phone that she would contact me when she got back in town. Sure enough, a few days later she called and we scheduled a for the following Monday. Her classes were over for the session but she still wanted to work on her English studies. As usual I brought yesterday’s newspaper to the room where she was waiting and we got started working through articles. Most of the paper was about Tropical Storm Debbie and all of the flooding that had resulted across the state. The first word that she entered into her word log was ‘meteorological,’ for which I offered a very general definition. We worked through the front page and several articles on the interior pages and filled up half a page in her vocabulary log with words like ‘depression,’ and ‘landfall.’ After we had worked through a few articles, Shaykhah asked if we could practice talking to work on her conversation skills. I asked her what she wanted to talk about and she said that she didn’t know. So I asked her about the recent weather and whether or not there was ever weather like that in her home country. She said that her home in Saudi Arabia was never quite as humid or wet as Florida. Shaykhah’s speaking skills are at a fairly high level; she picks up quickly  on pronunciation and is very polite when she converses. We talked about the weather for a little bit and that shifted the conversation towards general recreational activities that she did with her family and that I did on the weekend. We talked for a little longer about her vocabulary list, talking about how the words could be used in casual conversation. After a few minutes of talking she abruptly stood up and told me that her husband was waiting downstairs and that she would contact me about future sessions.