Nic Reagan TS #10

     Tonight, Korean student Yong and I had a tutoring session at New Times Country Buffet from 7:15-9:00. The class had Advanced Southern Culture as its theme, which is the reason we ate at a southern-food country restaurant. Yong got to try okra, squash, grits, collards, cracklings,  fried chicken liver and sweet tea for the first time.  It was also his first time at a buffet-style restaurant EVER. I informed him of how African-Americans brought many southern foods with them from Africa and introduced them into southern cuisine (okra especially). He seemed to enjoy the food and really enjoyed the sweet iced-tea. For much of the session, I taught him some southern vocabulary and idioms and then we transitioned to idioms and phrases common to the whole USA using lists I discovered online. Yong had told me at the start of our tutoring sessions that he wanted to learn idioms, so tonight we leaned a boat-load of them. It's good to know there's one more person out there who can properly use the phrase 'too big for their britches'! I let Yong keep the handouts I'd printed for further review. I'm looking forward to our least tutoring session!