Something scary is happening! Tomorrow at this time, I will be landing in Morocco. Fez, Morocco! I will get off the plane and say good morning, “Sabah behkrer!” to the cab driver, who my hotel …
Morocco
First blog post from Sierra
“How will you make it on your own? This world is awfully big And girl, this time you’re on your own But it’s time you started living…” I’m a little young to quote the old Mary Tyler Moore show. But …
Africa!
Welcome to yet another of my study abroad blogs. This time for Africa! I’ve been studying Turkish, Spanish and Azeri here in Wisconsin, yet I’m shipping off to a country that speaks Arabic and French. …
I am going to Morocco
I am going to Morocco to study Arabic and improve my French. I am going to Africa to explore the world. I am going to a Muslim country to abolish American fears. I am going …
Lucky to have been where I have been…Lucky to be coming home again….
It is now my very last night..my very last few hours in Morocco, and while we made ourselves an AMAZING chicken tagine as our last meal, and we watched Mulan (in ARABIC!), and had one …
I have less than two weeks left.
This [somewhat] sudden realization means about a billion and one things to me right now, but, the most important of which is that my return to the states is now “imminent” in status. So frighteningly …
Photo Montage/Short Updates
I will never cease to be amazed at some aspects of Moroccan culture. The rest of our break was AMAZING, and I was able to see some of the finest beaches Morocco’s Atlantic coast has …
Birthday, Finals, and Spring Break!
So somehow, March is now history-simply memories captured in pictures along the way. The month is such a blur to me already. Somehow, I finished my first term at ALIF (The Arabic Language Institute in …
From Kadie in Morocco
First of all, a million apologies for the hiatus in posting…amazing how quickly life picks up and becomes “routine” and you forget that, oh wait, I’m living the experience of a lifetime, and should probably …
WHEW!
The often-pondered phenomenon of why time seems to move at double the normal speed at certain points in life has me lost in thought these days. How long have I been in Morocco exactly? Two …