Jennifer_CP5

Today I met with Yi-Jhen and Joyce, my two conversation partners, during Tea Time. I thought it would be cool to see the presentation on Ramadan together. It turns out Joyce had already seen the presentation in her speaking class yesterday, so I talked to her for a little bit and she stayed behind to do homework while I went to the presentation with Yi-Jhen. The presentation was very informative and talked about the religious, cultural, and fun parts of Ramadan. It was interesting because apparently there are commercials for Ramadan in predominately Islam countries, kind of like there is commercials for Christmas in America. They also talked about the specific types of food they eat after the sun sets, and Yi-Jhen was very interested in the different types of food and kept asking me if they were good or not (not that I really knew haha). After the presentation we met back up with Joyce and discussed the presentation a little. Yi-Jhen could not believe that Muslims went all day without eating even though there was food all around them, and boldly asked one of the Muslims students  "How can you sit there and not eat the food in front of you?!" when we went back to the lounge. He replied "self-control!" and I agreed, having fasted before many times myself. Yi-Jhen is not afraid to speak her mind, even if it is in a rather bold statement, but that's what makes Yi-Jhen herself! It was really great learning about a culture neither me nor my conversations partners were familiar with and discussing it afterwards.