Exercise 5 - Outsourced

1. As soon as Todd arrives, he experiences the discomfort of being disoriented in a strange new place. What happens at the airport?
He was so distracted by the people at the airport and wasn’t able to read the sign which the driver was holding to take him to the hotel. he faced angry taxi drivers who were trying to pick him up and eventually he found a man standing alone and he approach to him to take him but he found out that it wasn’t a taxi it was a small tuc-tuc and because he had no choice he approved.

2. When a friendly traveler helps him get on the train, what does he tell him to do?

He asked him to jump in the train even though there was no room for him.

3.When he gets on the train, he cannot find an empty seat. How is this problem solved for him? How might this be a cultural solution?

a young boy stand up and gave him his seat out of respect yet after he sat down the young boy sat on his lap.

4.As any exchange student, he has a lot of experiences trying new food. His first encounter is with an iced drink. What happens?

He didn’t know the currency well and he gave the guy 2 rubies.

5. First encounters with a culture can be shocking – Todd sees crowded streets with cows, noise, and a man urinating in the street. But how does his host describe the city?

he describe it as a terrible un-clean place.

6. Even though the host Puro speaks English, Todd uses American slang a lot without thinking. So as not to insult Puro, what does he say the meaning of

Schmuck is?

He lied saying that it means a nice guy and then he immediately change the subject and asked about if Puro was the guy who he will train.

7. Todd wants to check in to a hotel. But Puro insists he comes to a boarding house. What is the reason he gives Todd?

that the hotel is a very lonely place and where aunti Ji house is better cause she will take good care of him better than his own mother.

8. As soon as they meet, Aunti Ji starts asking very intimate questions that Americans who have just met would never ask. What kind of things does she ask?

What does his father do? is he married or not and why did he broke up with his girlfriend.