I met with Tugba on Friday, June 24th at 12:30PM. We met again at the CIES Building. On this day Tugba forgot to bring her CIES book. I asked her if she wanted to work on writing today. She told me she wanted practice speaking today. I told her about a lesson plan I made for teaching the recorded class lesson. It was about music and people expressing their opinions. I pulled it up on my laptop and showed it to her. She liked it so we proceeded with it.
I first showed a list of expressions that could be used for expressing opinions. These range from agreeing to disagreeing to just stating what a person thinks. She looked at them and was a little confused. She told me it didn’t seem like people would normally use them in everyday conversation. I decided to move from that subject area. I pulled up a series of questions regarding music. They included “What kind of music you listen to?” “When did you first start collecting CDs, mp3s, or records?” and”What kind of emotions do you feel when listening to this music?”. She answered each and every question. She said her favorite kind of music was traditional Turkish music. I asked her what sounded it like, so she sung a melody from it.
She got really into the subject. She went on YouTube and showed me some traditional Turkish music. She then asked me if heard about Rumi’s Seven advice. I didn’t, so she showed me:
In generosity and helping others
be like the river.
In compassion and grace
be like the sun.
In concealing others' faults
be like the night.
In anger and fury
be like the dead.
In modesty and humility
be like the soil.
In tolerance
be like the ocean.
Either you appear as you are or
be as you appear.
I asked her to explain what each stanza in the poem represented. She at first had some difficulty so I asked her why Rumi used nature to express each emotion. She said the night metaphor was used to explain that other people’s faults aren’t meant to be exposed. The dead metaphor meant that people should not act on their anger. The sun metaphor meant that people should be really generous with their compassion.
She then told me more about the poet Rumi. He was a Sufi mystic from Persia who is famous for his poetry and writing. He lived during the 1200s. Tugba told me she learned this in her art history classes in Turkey. It was already 1:30 and Tugba, we had to end our tutoring session. I had another tutoring session at 3PM, after he got out of class.
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