Nice to hear about your assignment! That's quite reasonable of whoever graded them.

For your speech, did your classmates like rats enough for you to talk about Apopo (not that Esperanto isn't a nice topic)?

Yeah, it sounds like you've done more than enough for Philosophy, so keep that time for yourself! (I would probably go myself, despite a longer commute... but I make a point of always being there, so I'm quite sure I'm an outlier.)