So I am almost done! Yesterday was my Media Arabic final. We had to do a Panorama of news from 2012 on a specific topic, and then discuss one of the topics in detail. Both Olivia and I wanted to do education so we asked if we could do it together. We could, ours just had to be longer. I discovered a new better than power point website called Prezi. Its pretty cool. We used it for our presentation. We had a picture of the world and zoomed to different places and discussed what happened with them this year in regards to education. Then Olivia talked about Malala, a Pakistani girl who started sending her journal to BBC Urdu. Her journal was all about her trying to get an education under the Taliban, and how difficult it was. She got shot in the head this year and is currently healing in England. Shes pretty fucking cool, and Olivia and her friend actually started an online campaign to get pictures of all the girls in all the world reading all the books, because if thats what the Taliban is scared of, thats what we want to do. Her campaign is called #Girlwithabook and she has gotten pictures from over 400 countries and even from famous people like Ban Ki Moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) reading a book with his granddaughter. So thats pretty awesome. So she discussed that in detail, and I discussed the Mama Project, which is in Kechenga, DRC (Congo). For her masters in education, one woman went to the Congo to set up a school for women because they need a lot of help and education, and it has been really successful and really cool. We talked about a bunch of other things too. Our project was supposed to be 30-40 minutes but we easily talked for about an hour or longer, all in Arabic! So that was pretty cool.
Today I have my Archaeological History of Jordan final. Basically I made a Prezi and have to discuss the paper I wrote. Its in English, so I am not worried at all. My paper was on the Umayyad period, so that is also a really easy topic.
After that, at 6 today I have my OPI meaning my Oral Proficiency Interview. Yesterday I got a practice OPI from our Academic Director Manal. She is licensed to give them I think but she can't give them to us because she is our teacher and its a conflict of interest. But she said if she doesnt like the scores we get she will send them to the people and make them change our scores. I got an advanced low, but she said there is a chance I could be an advanced mid. so thats pretty cool! I started here this summer at novice low. there is novice low, med, high; intermediate low, med, high; and advanced low, med, high. So thats a pretty big jump- 6 levels in 6 months. Not bad. Hopefully I can get to advanced medium, but I kind of doubt it. The only problem now is convincing my professor at GW that advanced low is still better than the 'advanced' class at GW. According to GW I should have come here at Intermediate mid, but I didnt cause they can't teach me in an adequate way really. 1 hour a day isn't the same as 3 hours a day plus 1 hour of amiyya plus 6 extra hours of Media Arabic a week, plus just not speaking in English like ever. its not the same.
Anyways, tomorrow I have my Arabic fos-ha final, and I also have to talk about my paper that I wrote. I'm actually really proud of it. The boys in my class wrote their papers on 'food in Jordan' and 'the difference between living in Jordan and Morocco'. My paper was on the the participation of Arab nations in WWII. I talked about the Grand Mufti who was a raging anti-Semite, the revolt in Iraq, and to balance it out, I told some of the amazing stories discovered by Robert Satlof in his book Among the Righteous about Arabs who saved Jews in North Africa
then I'm DONE!!!!!!
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