27/6/18: “So Many Presentations, So Suck” -Fan Wu

We have a 5-10-minute presentation in Arabic due on Friday, and a 10-15-minute presentation in English due Tuesday, plus a quiz this Friday and a cumulative test next Friday, so it’s been a busy day. My Arabic presentation could be on any topic I wanted, so I’m giving a presentation on Milwaukee, because choosing a topic I would need to research, given everything else going on right now, would be a bad idea. The English presentation is on the post-independence struggle to create the Moroccan government, which sounded interesting when I picked the topic weeks ago, but isn’t quite as cool when the teacher sends you a 280-page book as a “starting point” a week before the presentation is due. To make matters worse, all the students in the Minnesota program are travelling to the Sahara for three days/two nights this weekend, which I’ve been looking forward to for weeks, but which will significantly cut into my prep time. I finished the Milwaukee presentation today (read: I copy/pasted some beer logos into a powerpoint) and I will hopefully finish the “starting point” book tomorrow. It will be a long week-and-a-half.