Mary_CP6

Nimah and I went to Sahara for our next meeting! I was so good, even Nimah thought it was comparable to her native favorites. When she walked into the restaurant the Lebanese waitstaff immediately began speaking Arabic with her, it was interesting to her Arabic being spoken. I’m more impressed with the Arabic students at CIES hearing how different our two languages are. Nimah spoke to me about how dating works in Saudi Arabia, evidently she gets a lot of pressure to get married from her friend because she “has a pretty face.” She said a man will approach her father with the idea and if he looks promising will arrange a marriage when he wants. I asked if this arrangement bothered her at all and she said it didn’t because romantic relationships was not something she wanted to be bothered with; she’d rather focus on studying, which made sense to me.