Next day, we went to our first class which we were assigned to initially. I was placed in Intermediate 1. Class was fun, we learned a lot of cool colloquial words (or a'amia) and learned how useless Al Kitaab actually is in learning spoken arabic. I must have learned more conversational words in that class than all of my time in arabic class total (no offense to the teachers of course, but do we REALLY need to know how to say united nations before we learn "to think" Al Kitaab?). We got our placement exam back at the end of class, I got placed in Intermediate II. Yay. Nothing else really happened on Monday. AB's again and some chilling like always. Late night movie to top it off.
Next day, tried to visit my intermediate II class. Turns out it was perfect for my level and am now happily in there!
After lunch, we went to our A'amia class (field trip today yessss!!!). We took a taxi ride to a small shop area and learned a lot of the words for foods and appliances. This guy below (what a gem) was in the butcher shop. He was hilarious, every single time, he would lift up a certain body part of an animal (including a skull with eyes and tongue) and would act out the body part as well, yelling his heart out the whole time.
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We also went to the fruit market and appliance store. Nothing to write home about due to the absence of crazy man acting out body parts.
Finished the night @ AB's with argileh, shawerma and late night movie with our newly bought pistachios. Life couldn't be better.
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