I didn’t have many friends growing up. For about nine years or so (from third grade to senior year of high school), I only had one, real friend. I had myself convinced that there are two kinds of people in the world: social people who have lots and lots of acquaintances but few meaningful friendships […]
Tag: saying goodbye
Driss.
When you live in the countryside of Morocco, and someone approaches you speaking English, I have to admit, I’m always just a little skeptical. A lot of the folks who want to use English with you will want to try out the five words of English they know, and that turns into a somewhat annoying […]
Omar.
When I first got to his house two years ago, it was just a visit. Before going to our final sites, Peace Corps dispatched us out on a one-week test run, so to speak, giving volunteers the chance to say, “Y’know, I went to this place, and I didn’t like it; send me somewhere else, […]
