Will Stone - TP7

  I met up with Mohammah at the library again. We bought some coffee and walked over to the Johnston building  to rent a study room. I asked if there was anything that he wanted to work on and he told me that he was having some trouble with when to use 'the' and 'a' and the differences between them. I explained that 'the' is used to describe a specific item and that 'a' was used in a more general sense. I flipped through his workbook and found an activity that demonstrated what i had just explained. I walked him through it and we talked for a little abourt why it was important to make the distinction between the two clauses. Last time Mohammad and I met, I told him that I would bring some things for him to read through, just to see what he thought of different reading material. I brought him a couple of issues of Time magazine and a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. He flipped through the time magazines and paused to read through some of the short articles, but mostly just flipped through to look at the images. However, as soon as he opened Calvin and Hobbes, he was transfixed. I could see him read through a few strips before he turned the page and laughed out loud. He looked up from the book and asked me to explain Calvin and Hobbes to him. It took him a minute to grasp the idea of a child talking to his imaginary friend, but eventually he picked up on it. I felt as though some of the cultural differences made it a little difficult to fully comprehend, because when i tried explaining imaginary friends he kind of just stared at me. I told him could borrow tyhe book if he promised to bring it back next time we met up.