Saturday, November 22, 2008

Shopping for Food

After catching up on some sleep we walked around the local area to find a small grocery store for food. It was a fabulous cultural experience. Everyone has been so helpful and pleasant as we try to get our bearings.

So much is the same and yet different: For example a delightful local woman wearing a Hijab was giving out samples of yogurt in the cramped grocery story. (Uncanny that is was the same brand they had for testing at Sams club in Logan last week.) However, here we had to give our phone number to get the sample and she recorded how many containers we ended up buying.

We hope our efforts to understand cultural differences will help us create more culturally sensitive instruction.

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