aeesh kalamat Arabiyye?

So the title of this entry sums up my experience of the last 48 hours. Me constantly asking "What is the Arabic word for...?" Seriously, I've been like a tape recorder and its also been a slightly more challenging time for me here because I spent today working as a hostess in the restaurant, Crocodile Grill. This was a helpful exercise most certainly, and one I will do fairly regularly I believe. Mohamed from Optima has proposed that I work on Fridays at the restaurant as a hostess so that I can get to know the atmosphere of the place and also to interact with the customers and staff in Arabic. I think this is a superb idea however, today was mentally pretty tiring. Firstly, Friday is like Sunday in the Middle East so most shops and restaurants are really busy and today was no exception. Secondly, the other hosts and waiters are really helpful and friendly, but they are pretty young and are easily amused when I mispronounce things. The laughter I don't mind, I would do the same, but then I want to be corrected and they don't always tell me the right way to say something. This is frustrating because if I make a mistake I want to know how to correct it, but they aren't very good with this. Like if I ask them how to conjugate a verb they tell me not to worry, about those specifics. But, I want to know! Also, they want to improve their English so again we have this back and forth when I speak Arabic they respond in English. Oh well, regardless, I think after a month or two of this I will have much better speaking skills for sure. I just have to get past the frustration with myself for not knowing more.