Vanessa CP #1

     I met with Saeed Alajmi for the first time on May 17^th at 4:15 pm at the Starbucks on Copeland St. After we introduced ourselves I asked him where he was from. He told me he was from Kuwait and I asked him how long he had been at FSU for, and he told me he has been here for two and a half months. He proceeded to ask me what I was studying and how long I had been at FSU for. I asked him why he was learning English, if it was for work in Kuwait or if he wanted to go to school in the U.S. We then started talking about how he wanted to pursue Civil Engineering and that he was looking at other universities he could apply to. Saeed told me he was very interested in the University of Tennessee because he thoroughly enjoyed Tennessee when he went. This then led me to my next question/curiosity, which was to what other states/cities had he been to in the U.S. He told me he had been to New York, D.C., Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and a couple of other places. I enjoyed listening and asking him about these places because I have never been to most of them. I then told him that I really enjoyed traveling and that is why I was interested in getting my TEFL Certificate. We then began talking about the countries we had been to. It was cool to learn about the countries he had been to that I had not been to and he enjoyed learning about the South American and Caribbean countries I had been to.