For as much as I hate Monday, I love Tuesday. I believe the reason for this, is simply because it's no longer Monday.
We're approximately half-way through learning the alphabet, and as I understand it, the journal entry is due in the morning. So I stumble my way through altering some of the example dialog and creating something about myself. We are specifically instructed to only use the things we've been taught in class.
Imagine, for a moment, writing a paragraph about yourself in your own language, when you can only use half the alphabet. I think our teachers are confused.
We have on teacher that is particularly good at the calligraphy of the language. When he writes on the board, it is always beautiful and makes me wish I had time to become a master of the art.
Here is an example of what you can do with Arabic.