Kourtney Wilson CP #1

Date/Time: 11/21, Halimah Alnakhli 5:00-6:00pm

Location: Zoom

Topic discussed: Critical Incident 

Halimah Alnakhi is 28 years old and has two kids. She is very sweet! This was the first time we met. She is planning on teaching her son French and I offered to help. I learned that she is Muslim and is from Saudi Arabia. We actually have a few things in common. We both love Indian food and we are both students. Halimah Alnakhli and her husband both are studying at CIES. They have been here a year, since last October.      

Over the course of our meeting, Halimah told me she was taking the TEFL Exam this coming Monday. She has taken the exam two times before and has not been pleased with her score. 


We talked about the things we have in common, food. So for a critical incident, I presented her with the issue that if it was an important gathering for someone at a restaurant and her cultural ways were completely different than the place she was in what she would do. She has had trouble finding restaurants in Tallahassee that are similar to her food back in her country. She informed me that her culture advises not to eat pork, but she isn't uncomfortable around it. I then said, "what if the only things on the menu involved something you could not eat?" I had her brainstorm ideas, and one of her thoughts was that she would say that she did not feel well, and not eat but still stay at the gathering. She realizes this could look odd to the people, and it could be an issue. Her response would be to still stay but to simply say she was not hungry to avoid as much as she could due to cultural differences. 

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