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Ahmed and I had scheduled the 8th meeting for having a coffee and a couple of drinks afterwards. We planned to talk about famous celebrities in our country as well as our experiences of growing up at school as we had preliminary structured our meetings in the beginning of the course.
First of all, I started introducing Ahmed into a few celebrities, who take part in reality TV shows in Germany such as Michael Wendler (a singer) or Ailton (a Brazilian football player of Werder Bremen). The popularity of this kind of TV shows has been increasing in Germany, even though I do not share the excitement. Ahmed continued with Taim Hasan (a famous Syrian actor in Palestine) and Steven Gerrard. Ahmed stated that Palestine is also really interested in international football and hence he has chosen Steven Gerrard as example.
Regarding school and education in Germany, we had quite different experiences. In Germany, physical punishment is prohibited, while this form of education is still allowed in Palestine. Moreover, the exposure to authorities is different. Even though German pupil have to talk to their teachers by surname, the Palestinian should use the title as well. It seems like that Palestine’s educational behavior correspondents to the school system of my grandparents in Germany. It was really interesting to see these differences.
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