June 24

We have SO much homework!! Yesterday I did work for 4 hours and didn't even finish! I'm now on my break from catching up with yesterdays homework in addition to doing todays! The picture I posted is pretty much a schedule of what we're supposed to do in class and what we have to do for homework each day of the week. As you can see, there's no homework posted for Fridays so all of the work is due during the week. The reason for this is that we have weekend trips and home stays scheduled during the weekends.

I realized I haven't really explained what our days consist of, so maybe this is a good time to do so. Every morning, we have breakfast from 8-8:30am and classes start at 8:30am. My class starts with darijah lessons for an hour (Monday-Thursday) with Younis, the speaking partners' coordinator. Then, we have class in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) until 1pm with a 30min break. My professors names are Halima and Azeez. They are very nice and so far they have proven to be good teachers! After lunch, there are office hours scheduled every day and optional tutoring classes. We also have conversation classes with the speaking partners any time from 2-4pm for 30 mins. Younis is the one in charge of scheduling our appointments with our speaking partners, so each day they are at a different time. After meeting with the speaking partners, we are free for the rest of the day and dinner is on our own.

Anyways, I now need to go do a lot of homework and study for our test tomorrow. Oh, yeah! Every Friday, we will be tested to see how much our level improves from week to week. Should be interesting to see how much we improve in the course of the summer!