BBC Comments on Arabic Study in Damascus
2009 August 24
“You Americans, you learn some Arabic, we learn a little English. We can all be friends.”
It had been a particularly tough day, the verbs and the vocabulary taking their toll.
But somehow this image spurred me on.
I feel like this correspondant makes the atmpsphere seem a little more hardworking than what I remember, but maybe I was just lazy 
This correspondent was my roommate while he was in Damascus. He was VERY hardworking, much more than most