Tuesday, June 16, 2009

First FULL day of classes

Ohhhh man.

Our first full day of classes were today, meaning approx. 5 hours worth of classes. They divide our classes up so it's not just straight Arabic. I have ammiyah (our dialect class) every day for a little over 2 weeks, then we don't have to take that and it's only 4 hours a day. I also have conversation, grammar, reading, listening, and writing classes, although we don't have writing until tomorrow.

Ammiyah was really fun, reading is pretty decent, grammar was GREAT (I know right), conversation was awesome (although I'm sure I'll be terrified of it in the future), and listening was THE DEVIL. Seriously we watched this video over and over again and I still could not understand a word. But we all struggled with it so I guess it's okay. Other than that, classes were awesome. All in Arabic but I was able to understand most of it. They're challenging but in a great way. The professors are extremely enthusiastic and very helpful. It's great so far.

Not so great would be the homework...I spent 5 hours on it and am still not fully done. Grrrr.

We're trying to plan our Amman trip for this weekend. I'm pretty pumped to go to a club in Jordan haha

1 comment:

  1. You are going to be sooo amazing at arabic after this summer!!! I'm kind of jealous.
    I hope you're having fun too!

    <3
    Keri

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