This will be my last post for about a week. I have one more day of classes tomorrow and then our first vacation begins. This break is ten days long, and I will be spending the first five in Oman. We're leaving tomorrow and driving to Muscat. From there our plans are to visit an island and then camp in the mountains for a few days before returning to Muscat and catching a bus home. We should return on the 30th or the first of October depending on what there is to do in Muscat.
School this week has been okay. We had our first Arabic exam. I believe I got the second highest grade in the class. I got a 63%. The highest grade was 68% and the lowest was 21%. So no one did well, which the teacher couldn't understand. I felt like I was decently prepared for it but the test was hard and purposefully made tricky. The professor is going to give us another test thats not a test (I didn't understand this concept either) on the first day we return, basically give us a good ten days to forget what little information we apparently know now. Perhaps, if I study a lot it'll be ok, but there's a difference between knowing something and being able to apply it.
Aside from that, I've been pretty bored here. In addition to the fact that I have a lot less school work to do here, in D.C. I also had riding and other activities to keep myself occupied. This campus is very far away from the city and it is difficult to get a taxi to come here. Basically, to occupy myself I sleep a lot, go to the gym, read books, and do homework. Its too hot to do much outside and Ramadan has effectively canceled the group lunches my friends and I used to do (but Ramadan is almost over). To illustrate just how much time I truly have, a read a 360-page book in four days and have the majority of my homework done for the week we come back from break. But the boredom is good as well. This is probably the last time for a long time I'll be able to sit around doing nothing for hours on end.
One of the hardest things about being here is not being able to ride. I called Peter's (Aunt Christina's horse trainer) niece who trains horses over here, but her stable is an $80 cab ride away and is rather expensive. There is a stable very close to my campus where I can ride for around $20 that I'm going to look into when I come back from Oman. That way I could do a little riding while I'm over here. Now if I could only get my horse here...
Well, thats about all I have to say for now. I'll post again as soon as I can. I may have access to an internet cafe or something like that in Muscat where I could get online, but that would only happen by chance. Until then...
-Lindsay
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