#17827 - From my reading, I remembered that the traditional dress was worn so women couldn’t flaunt their femininity and cause men to become aroused and want to take advantage of them – I have always thought men should be responsible for controlling their carnal inclinations, but what would a WASP know? We started out doing the standard English that we were covering at school, then moved onto current events and their interpretation and finished off talking about things Zina was having trouble with at school. I got a real buzz teaching a class of Basic English to students from foreign backgrounds. I could tell something was troubling Zina and one day she confided to me that she was worried about the pending circumcision.