between 2004 and 2009, i had a weekly meeting with an arabic tutor. each week i'd meet my tutor and talk about my week. if i asked the tutor how to say a word in arabic, he would write it down for me on a piece of scrap paper. at the end of the session, he would hand me the scrap paper with a list of new (to me) words. every few months i would go through the scrap paper stack and make flash cards from them. then i would leave the stacks of stack paper in a corner of our study specifically reserved for things i wanted to keep but had no idea where to put them.
this morning i went through the stack. the arabic notes were in roughly chronological order, with the most recent stuff on top. as i sifted through the stack i saw a crazy reminder of my life in 2009. here are some of the words i learned that year:
النحل
تطبيق
رخصة
منسق
حماتي
شرطان
حضانة
ak
tepe
براز
مرض الكلب
بصمة الاصابع
سنجاب
what a shitty year that was.
