Vie Miller TS#2

After wandering through an apartment complex off Ocala Road and climbing a few sets of stars, I knocked on a door and was invited into the apartment by Turki, my second tutee. He was dining with friends after the day’s fast--Ramadan had only begun a few days beforehand--and his friends made some space for me on the rugs. Most of them--including Turki--were from Saudi Arabia and had been students at CIES for less than a year. Over dinner, Turki told me that he had a degree in mathematics from his home country and was looking for help with the spoken part of the TOEFL exam. I promised him that we’d work on the spoken portion of the exam and promised myself that I would reach out to my professor first thing next week and ask for more information about how the exam is conducted (and if there are any practice materials that I could use).