Yay!

Yesterday was one of the best days I have had in a long time. You know, some days are decent, some plain suck, but yesterday was just plain good. I woke up late in the morning, I thought I had set my alarm (which I did) but I must have turned it off while I was still half asleep and didn't even realize it. So at 6:15 my mom yells up the stairs to see if I'm up. I looked at the clock, said a swear word, and jumped out of bed. I was very proud of myself though, I still managed to walk out the door at the usual time of 6:40. That is one of the fastest times I've gotten myself together, considering all the stuff I have to do in the morning.

So I made it to school, did my german homework, and still had time to just sit around. I went to history, almost stayed awake through the entire movie on the Pilgrims *snore* so I only missed maybe the last 5 or 10 minutes. As I was packing up my stuff and getting ready to head out, I was talking with my teacher and this other guy from the class. Katya (the teacher) decided to drop the midterm because apparently a lot of people in the department were having timing problems so some decided to either reschedule the midterm or drop it all together. The class as a whole decided to drop the midterm and she'd use the grades from our two quizes, paper, and first test, calculate all of those together and that would be our grade for the "midterm". She said we would do another test later but it wouldn't be over so much material, thank God. So as we were all talking she asked me what I thought about the whole midterm idea. I told her I thought it was a good plan, I just hoped we all did well enough on our test and paper for it since we didn't have those grades back yet. She just sort of laughed and told me not to worry, I had did very very well on both my paper and my test. She said, oh you definitely have an A in the class. I was like, oh that makes me so happy I could give you a hug! She laughed and said ok, give me a hug. She's also my arabic teacher, a tiny Algerian woman, and a total sweetheart so we're pretty good friends.

I made it through econ and stayed awake which surprised me seeing as I'm always on the brink of falling asleep in that class. lol Then in arabic I had been stressed because we were supposed to have a sort of oral quiz in class. At OSU that was completely nerve wracking for me. Ghassan (my teacher) would sit down across from you at a table and just ask you a billion questions. Don't get me wrong, he was a very nice teacher and I liked him a lot, but the class was difficult and I had troubles keeping up so sitting across from him with all the questions aimed right at me, was difficult. Orals here were nothing like that, at all. The four of us from class just sat at our table and we all had our papers out and she just told us to talk to each other about the airport and passport crap which was what we had been working on. I thought she'd make us put all of our stuff away, ask a certain number of questions, talk for so long, etc. No, she let us have everything out so if we had to look at a word for something, it was no big deal. So I loved that, I felt totally comfortable and also dominated the conversation. I had to help the other 3 out a lot with vocab because they wouldn't understand a lot of the questions, especially ones I would ask. I think it's just because I am more comfortable with the language than they are so I talk faster with it and also my accent is better. So I'm sure Katya could hear me helping them along but she was just going about the room, getting things together, looking at papers, whatever she felt like doing. So I felt I did pretty well at the end of the conversation. I only messed one part up, I decided to switch up the dull conversation at one point. She was asking us where we were from and everyone was saying America so I decided to say I was from Yemen. She said, oh, well then your arabic must be very very good. I told her no I only knew a litle bit. So I had said I was born there but then said my mom was from America and my dad was from Canada. So I was confusing my vocab and didn't know how to say what I wanted so I had to switch the story around a little bit and say I was born there but I grew up in America, hence the lack of arabic knowledge. When it was all said and done she was laughing and said I sort of dug myself into a hole with that one. I laughed and told her I couldn't find the vocab I wanted so then yeah, I got stuck. Still, I think I'll get a good grade.

So then I was really tired (4.5 hours of sleep is not enough) so I decided to get a cup of coffee to wake me up before german. The coffee was good, but it put me right to sleep, go figure. But I had a nice nap, on and off, for about an hour. German went well, she called on me right away and asked me when my birthday was. Luckily I had just reviewed minutes before how to properly say that in a sentence with all the right endings. (I always mess up when to have a t or when not to have a t, and maybe theres the exception where you have to add en at the end, blah blah blah.) So I told her when it was, she just kind of looked at me and I thought, oh god, I said it wrong, she's going to kill me. Then she just sort of smiled and said, prima (like excellent) and moved on. The rest of class was funny as people kept screwing up random sentences. Michael tried to say he ate a cake on his birthday but got his vocab confused and accidentally said he ate a kitchen on his birthday. Lots of stuff like that, it was definitely amusing.

Then in the evening I got to see my baby, Matt. He'd just gotten off work so he decided to stop by for a couple hours. Mom had to go to Louisville to catch a flight to Texas. She took our two little puppies to their new home down there. I was talking to her this morning and she said they absolutely adored both of them. :) So that was my day! (not quite in a nutshell i know lol) Today is a bit more boring, just studying econ for my test on monday. oh goody...