I think that I'm becoming adusted to always being overwhelmed. There is so much to do, not all of it can get done. This is not a new concept for me, and I've always pretty much known my priorities. However, the fact that I have one chance to do this whole study-abroad-thing has made me worry...
Okay. Imma jump into Real-Life-Time, I just got interrupted from this post by a lady teaching my host-sister Fusha. She asked to see the articles I have to do in Al-Kitab 3. If I needed help, she would have been incredbily... helpful, but I really just need to be studying for this quiz tomorrow.
And this is the kind of thing that I love about living here. Because I come home and there are random pople in my living room, and I just get the chance to have a conversation with someone new, also I feel like the more I have these really brief interactions I learn a lot more. Even though it seems like I'm just going through motions, and the whole conversation seems shallow, each person has their own nuances with language, and I love just trying to hear the differences between people.
This goes back to the point that I was going to make earlier, there is always just so much going on here that something has to get put on the back burner. I just can't tell who/what I would be learning more from. Is it the people, becuase usually half-way through whatever conversation the other person always ends up switching to English, and I feel rude always asking them to go out of their way to speak Arabic with me. So would it just make more sense to sit in a room and study as much as much as possible? I know the obvious answer is to talk to other the people here, but I'm always wary of obvious choices, there always seems to be a catch.
On another note, here is the link to my Tumblr where I'll post the poems I'll be writing while I'm here/pictures, if I ever take them.
http://noneedfortickets.tumblr.com/
...and if you don't like poetry, don't click it.
Okay. Imma jump into Real-Life-Time, I just got interrupted from this post by a lady teaching my host-sister Fusha. She asked to see the articles I have to do in Al-Kitab 3. If I needed help, she would have been incredbily... helpful, but I really just need to be studying for this quiz tomorrow.
And this is the kind of thing that I love about living here. Because I come home and there are random pople in my living room, and I just get the chance to have a conversation with someone new, also I feel like the more I have these really brief interactions I learn a lot more. Even though it seems like I'm just going through motions, and the whole conversation seems shallow, each person has their own nuances with language, and I love just trying to hear the differences between people.
This goes back to the point that I was going to make earlier, there is always just so much going on here that something has to get put on the back burner. I just can't tell who/what I would be learning more from. Is it the people, becuase usually half-way through whatever conversation the other person always ends up switching to English, and I feel rude always asking them to go out of their way to speak Arabic with me. So would it just make more sense to sit in a room and study as much as much as possible? I know the obvious answer is to talk to other the people here, but I'm always wary of obvious choices, there always seems to be a catch.
On another note, here is the link to my Tumblr where I'll post the poems I'll be writing while I'm here/pictures, if I ever take them.
http://noneedfortickets.tumblr.com/
...and if you don't like poetry, don't click it.
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