So, I’m going to be fairly straight-forward and just describe my trip point-by-point for the most part. It’s a little different from the posts I usually write, but I want to make sure I include everything. Happy reading. Here goes nothing. Bismillah. I left my site at 8:00am Christmas Eve on a souq bus bound […]
Category: Peace Corps
Merry Christmas
Christmas this year is a bit different without the Christmas trees and presents and what with being in a country where most people don’t really know what Christmas is at all. But that’s okay, because I have what I need and couldn’t be happier. Here is a little song I’ll be listening to quite a […]
Deciding to be Happy Already.
I’m not one to tout karma, but last year when load after load of bad news kept coming my way from my grandfather dying to multiple graduate school rejections, I felt like something good was destined to happen. I even felt like I deserved it. After all, I’d hit rock bottom, and it was past […]
Disconnected.
About a month before I left for Morocco, I deactivated my Facebook account “temporarily.” At the time, I didn’t know that I would be able to check my email or get online from time-to-time, and the last thing I wanted was to log into Facebook and see on my wall that five people had just […]
On Living Awkwardly
When we’re young, we tend to think that we’re weird or awkward. It’s just one of those constant self-conscious things that I know I went through, and I think everybody goes through at some point in his or her life – you know, the “awkward stage.” Some of us don’t really grow out of that. […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
First things first, I am officially a Peace Corps Volunteer. You might not have known that I wasn’t before now, heh. But, read this for details. Otherwise, I’ll keep this relatively short. Mostly, I just wanted to say that I’m thankful I safely made it to my site in the desert (after ten hours of […]
Some Random Things I’ve Noticed and Liked, or A Morocco Top Ten List of Sorts, in no particular order
I have an awful tendency, by the way, to write one sentence about something relatively interesting that has happened to me and then thirty sentences expounding on it with some pseudo-didactic philosophical rant on the meaning of life (which might actually be slightly interesting if I didn’t go into some stream of consciousness tirade and […]
All about my new home, or What I learned so far
On the ride to my new site, I felt like I was riding with Andy Day again on our way to the Grand Canyon (here’s to hoping this Christmas is not spent vomiting in a desert again, though). The way the landscape changes – and drastically, I might add – is unbelievable. One second, you’re […]
My final site announced!
The news is in, and I am moving pretty much smack in the middle of Morocco, some five hours from where I currently am (Fes) and maybe eight or nine hours from Rabat. I’m guessing on those numbers, by the way. I leave tomorrow morning to visit my new home and meet my host family […]
