For my first conversation partner session, I met up with Abdulmohsen at the Starbucks behind CIES. My first impression was that it was awkward starting a conversation with a stranger with broken English, but even him and I had a pretty decent amount of common ground. We talked about things we enjoy doing here, things we are doing for spring break, and I told him about some of the things I like to do that were middle eastern in origin (some music I like to listen to and hookah). We agreed that next time we would like to do something, either play pool or go to his house to smoke hookah with his friends. It was a very enlightening experience and it is very cool to be able to build a bridge like that between two seemingly opposite cultures.
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