Arabic, Not Quite As Fun Anymore

[jmfargo]

Tomorrow's the first quiz for the class. Well, the second actually, but the one we took before "didn't count," so this is the first quiz. That means that I should be spending tonight, the night of my first anniversary, studying for the quiz tomorrow.

In actuality, I've got 10 pages to read, 8 writing practices to be done on separate pieces of paper to be handed in tomorrow, and 5 drills that each have to be done on their own paper to be handed in at the beginning of class tomorrow.

10 pages to read, 13 separate parts of homework.

Of course, I could get it done sooner if I just stopped bitching about it and got to it, but this is something that deserves a good bitching about.

I have no idea how the regular students are able to deal with this. I just spent over an hour writing all the forms of "miim." I already knew them! I wouldn't have wasted my time, but if I miss even one part of the homework assignment to be handed in, none of them count and I get a zero.

I wish I knew some Arabic swear words. I'd use them about now.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I had very similar thoughtlines about the M. eng class I am taking... Only 8 problems on the homework... Didn't think too much about it... until I got into it, and every problem had 10 parts to it. Our first project was a bridge and light rail system for Rochester, I sweat out all the little crappy details with little or no guidance, to find that it is really just a rough draft for the second project and didn't count really...

I wish I knew some swear words in Arabic too...

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Kahlb can be used to call someone a "dog" in a derogatory manner. I learned that today. It doesn't really help when you're just wanting to swear in general, but it's something.