Salam wa aleikum!
Well, the first week of
classes has ended and it was interesting to say the least. Now as some of you
know, I was slightly overwhelmed at the beginning of the week. I’ve never
suffered from culture shock before, but it hit me pretty hard really quickly.
After the first two days, I honestly felt like calling it a day and heading
back to the States. But, as things tend to do, it got better.
I have three different
classes that I end up in during the week and our group was split up into three
different groups. So what happens is this.
From 9:00 to 1:00 each day,
I have a Modern Standard Arabic class, a Darija class (the Moroccan dialect of
Arabic), and a media class. Now these all don’t happen everyday and the classes
are switched around depending on what day of the week it is, which can be kind
of confusing, especially when you’re trying to do your homework for the next
day, but you’re not sure what classes you have. I figure I’ll get the hang of
it by the end of next week and I won’t have another situation where I didn’t do
the correct homework. Eh.
But anyway, that’s what
happens in the morning. From 3:00 to 5:00 on Monday and Wednesday, I meet with
my language partner Habiba. Who is adorable. For real. I’ll post a picture
later. We met yesterday for the first time and got to know each other a little,
so hopefully she be a good person to have helping me as I learn Arabic. From
yesterday’s meeting, I’m pretty sure she will be.
Plus, this is the building
we’re studying in, just a few pictures, but it is really pretty. Don’t you
think?
In other news, multiple
people in our program have already gotten sick, just like they said we would
when we were in Washington DC. I think the count at this point is six out of
the sixteen of us have gotten the sickness. And it’s just the first week. Pray
really hard that that won’t happen to me. It seems to be a little inconvenient.
But just letting you know
that I’ll try to post at least twice a week. Arabic homework has been taking
hours and that means hours less that I have to write in English. I’m doing some
fun things this weekend with the family, so I’ll be sure to give you some
pictures of that.
PS. We also we out to lunch as a group. That was fun. Here are pictures. Enjoy.
Ma’a salama!
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