{"id":178,"date":"2015-05-31T23:09:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-06-23T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:43:04","slug":"a-more-usual-day-of-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"A More Usual Day of Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was not as busy as yesterday, which I&#8217;m thankful for because I was still tired. We had class where we talked about government and non-government organizations as well as Iran and nuclear arms. I&#8217;m pretty bad at speaking and understanding Arabic but I get a little bit better every day. I still forget words as soon as I hear them, but I&#8217;m\u00a0remembering more.<\/p>\n<p>After class, we met with our conversation partners again. Tonight all the men\u00a0in the group participated in a mock Omani military-ish ceremony which is kind of hard to describe. It kind of reminded me of the military Exhibition Drill. The two ceremonies we had mock versions of were called &#8216;Azi and Razha. Hopefully someone recorded a video that I&#8217;ll be able to share later.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_179\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WIN_20150531_230313.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-GTc6gJHv\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WIN_20150531_230313-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"My notes from today. I'm trying to draw pictures for new vocab instead of the English word. So the word with the stick figures under it on the left means &quot;minorities&quot;.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WIN_20150531_230313-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WIN_20150531_230313-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WIN_20150531_230313-620x413.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My notes from today. I&#8217;m trying to draw pictures for new vocab instead of the English word. So the word with the stick figures under it on the left means &#8220;minorities&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was not as busy as yesterday, which I&#8217;m thankful for because I was still tired. We had class where we talked about government and non-government organizations as well as Iran and nuclear arms. I&#8217;m pretty bad at speaking and understanding Arabic but I get a little bit better every day. I still forget words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}