Tag Archives: arabic
Lost in Translation
Aside from being the closest thing to real school I have here in Alexandria, I’d have to say that the biggest perk of my Translation class is reading my first drafts. Sure, it means that I have more work to … Continue reading
Have I Mentioned I am Enrolled in Daycare?
Technically, I am a student of the University of Alexandria. I have my ID card and everthing–well, “Shool” Brown has an ID card. I’m pretty sure that was the name of the melancholy Jewish tailor in a song in “The … Continue reading
First Day of School… Again
Today, I felt as though I was in real school again… which I am, and I suppose I have been for the past month. But today was the first day of school for all the Egyptian students in Alexandria, and … Continue reading
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Things In Yemen Continue to Go to Crap
As I learned in my translation class a few days ago, when we were asked to translate the English al-Jazeera article into Arabic, there was a terrorist attack on the US embassy in Sana’a Yemen. The Washington Post and NY Times … Continue reading
… And We’re Back.
Sorry there’s been so few posts lately. During the first part of the week, I caught a bug that made my life was not particularly interesting or appropriate for writing about, and the second half was taken up by too … Continue reading
Faster Than a Speeding Taxi (Redundant)
You know that dream you have just around the beginning of the school year, no matter how many years of school it’s been, where you sleep through your first important class? I previously had been warily relieved that this has … Continue reading
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In which I sign away my speaking ability*…
*This is very close to being true. Thursday, I began life under the infamous Language Pledge. The act of physically signing it, using the wall as a desk in the lobby of the TAFL language center on the Alexandria University … Continue reading
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Arrival
It’s 5:30 am in Egypt, and I’ve been up for the past 3 hours or so, though I’ve only recently given up on sleep and ventured from bed. Got in last night around 4 in the morning and then … Continue reading
En Route to Egypt: Frankfurt
So as we were landing circling over Frankfurt, I instantly and irrationally fell in love with Western Europe and decided to continue my Arabic studies here. Or at least, that’s what I was thinking until spending the first of ten … Continue reading
