Day 122

Tuesday May 20^th

Today I had to give a presentation in Arabic without any preparation. I became acutely aware of how poor my Arabic speaking skills are. Not only do I pronounce all my words poorly but I struggle to find the words I want to use much less put them into a coherent grammer structure. My reading has gotten much better, but I think my listening and speaking are just as bad as they were when I left Notre Dame. Okay, that might be drastic, but I don’t feel like I have gotten any better here. Maybe I don’t put in enough time, maybe its because I struggle with phonetics in general or maybe its because I am just a dumbass. One thing is for sure, I can’t spend another semester here. The lack of quality education is absolutely destroying whatever confidence in my intellectual abilities I might have developed.