Last Exam in Germany...and it's Arabic

Well, I have an Arabic exam in about two hours and although I have gotten up early, as I sit at my desk, I realize that after studying all day yesterday there is really not much more I can do. Thus I might as well write a blog.

This exam is very significant because it's my last at Justus-Liebig Universität. After about 11:30am today I will be completely finished with the semester, only having to collect my Scheine (grade certificates) and turn them into the study abroad office. If all goes well that will be done by the end of the week. I have been in Germany 10.5 months - unbelievable. I will be leaving Gießen on July 28th, which is exactly 15 days from now. Actually, come to think of it...I will not have another full week in Gießen. Next week Mon-Wed I will be in France and then I leave the following Wednesday! Again, I say - unbelievable. If my Dad heard that he would say, "Abbey, believe it." I remember about two weeks before I left for Germany I was saying the same thing and that was his response. I think the reality of how short my time here is will sink in after my exam today.

I am actually quite nervous about this Arabic exam. I have studied a lot but I am worried that there will be vocabulary I don't know. There is a section where we have to translate from German to Arabic and that's the part that scares me. Otherwise, I am not worried. I thought it would be hard learning Arabic in German but actually half the time I didn't even realize I was learning a foreign language in a foreign language. Maybe it was because in comparison to Arabic, German feels like a native language!

The next month is going to be a transitional time of packing, saying goodbye, riding trains, saying hello to old friends, surviving airports and seeing my lovely family again. A bittersweet mixture. I really miss my sisters and can't WAIT to hug them (of course, Silas too)!

Well, I am going to look over my Arabic again. Next time I write, I will be done!