Day 34: Trials

Today was a looooonnnnnngggg day. Shower, toast, walk to school was how I kicked things off. Then began a 8.5 hour day at ALIF. In Arabic, we had a big quiz but all of our fretting the past couple of days was for naught because it was pretty easy. I skipped going home for lunch and went to Casa Nostra with Christie, Tash, Joe, and Meredith so that I could spend some time studying for our Gender in the Medina midterm during the lunch break. We had the first 30 minutes of class to respond to one of two questions in a two-page essay. I think it went pretty well too. She lectured for the remainder of class, but at 4 o'clock we still weren't done. We had a guest lecturer, Prof. Sadiqi's husband, who was going to speak to us for an hour about language and education policy. While the talk was interesting, most of us were too burned out to really appreciate his lecture. He also spoke until 5:30, which didn't make matters any better. 

"Leap Day William" from the 30 Rock episode

Free from class, we decided to celebrate by having wine o'clock in the afternoon. Although there is no where we can really drink, this has never stopped a Dartmouth man before. We decided to discretely take mixed drinks into the riad and just hung out and listened to music. We played a fun game with the Leap Day episode of 30 Rock where we had to take a sip whenever they said "Leap Day." We ended up hanging out from 6 to 9 and all involved parties had fun. Afterwards, I went home for dinner and to Skype my friend Abby Cohen. We had a lot of fun talking, laughing, and catching up. Afterwards, I watched some more 30 Rock on my laptop, packed, and went to bed.