How to Survive Arabic 101

Date June 30, 2005

Lesson #1: Put pictures of the girl you are madly in love with inside the folder you use for Arabic, so when you get bored, you can look at pictures of her and you and then just smile and realize that it really doesn’t matter whether you are fluent in Arabic or not, because there [...]

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Jobs and…Arabic (ugh…..)

Date June 21, 2005

Just a quick update, as I need to grab some dinner (which will consist of shwarma or fallafel - like always). I spent this morning just hanging around the office while they tried to figure out what to do with my job placement. As it turns out, the Bethlehem Peace Center will be having huge [...]

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Beginning Arabic (why oh why!?)

Date June 20, 2005

Arabic. Ugh. I was pretty excited initially that learning Arabic was one of the components of the Palestine Summer Encounter program that I am with. However, as I was sitting through hour 3 of this afternoon’s Arabic class, I was beginning to question my original thoughts. I already had 1 year of Hebrew grammar last [...]

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