Turkish Time!

Turkish Time! - Dominic Brunaccioni

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all feeling well. Personally, my life feels like its on repeat. I wake up, work out, text friends, play video games, go to bed, and repeat. Honestly, it’s a life that I’m grateful to have, though, because I could be sick and/or dying of a terrible virus instead.

In terms of what’s new for language, I’m progressing more with my Turkish. My Arabic is at a standstill because we apparently “went too fast” as compared to the other classes, so we are doing nothing new while the other Arabic classes play catch-up. So, for Turkish, I finally finalized how my schedule will work. If you have followed my quest to take Turkish, you will know that I will be taking it at Georgetown University next year, through American’s Consortium. 

Taking a look at the schedule I received yesterday, Turkish is six credits at Georgetown, compared to American’s five credit for a language, so I guess I’m getting more bang for my buck. What that actually means, though, is that its a demanding class. I have the class four days a week. Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I will be at Georgetown University from 9:30 am to 10:45 am. It sounds gross, and I share the same feeling that you may have, but Turkish is what I asked for, and if this is what I asked for, you better bet I’m dedicated to it.

Sure, I have my hesitations, but I planned my whole schedule around the class and made sure that my other classes balanced out the workload. So the schedule part has been done and isn’t as scary as I thought it would be. What is scary is what is in the course description, where the professor writes that “students will need to keep track of two fully dedicated interactive notebooks”. If you know anything about me, I dread interactive notebooks. Glue gets everywhere, I always forget about it, and stuff falls apart. And now I have to worry about two of them. Well, at least it gets my mind off of coronavirus!

Stay safe, and see you next week!

~ Dom