Date/Time: July 24 at 3:00pm
Location: Zoom
Topic discussed:
- listened to his story about his experience with roommates and other in his apartment and how they acted quite awfully towards him
- talked about llamas and cows
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner
learned:
- learned some Egyptian expressions
- calling someone a donkey means they are stupid
- calling someone a donkey with big ears means they know nothing
- saying that someone has white (or maybe cold) blood means they will continue bothering someone even if they are polite (at least, that's how I understood it)
- if the dog bites, will you bite back? is a saying that is to say if someone insults you or speaks ill of you, you do not do the same but rather be polite and walk away
- in Egypt, during Ramadan (when the Muslim people are fasting), the Christian and Jewish people will bring food to the mosques to help feed the Muslim people
- Egyptians, or at least my CP, hold the view that it doesn't matter what you look like or what religion you practice or anything. What matters is who you are, if you are a good person or not
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