For five days, Troyes had sun and even a little heat. Then, yesterday, it started to rain, and it’s been off and on ever since. In 48 hours, I will be in the middle of my trans-Atlantic flight back to the US. Sometimes in Morocco, to pass the time, Ryan and I talked about what […]
There’s Room for a Little More
Officially, the Spring 2015 Lewis & Clark Study Abroad Program to Morocco is over. We’ve turned in all of our papers and have gone our separate ways. As I write this, I am sitting in an apartment in Troyes, France, where I’ll be for the next nine days. In the past five days, I’ve spent […]
Nostalgia and Loss
The following is my final essay that I turned in for Dr. Ennaji’s class on Moroccan Social Movements. The literature surrounding Moroccan Independence and Colonialism spreads over multiple formats, genres, and, most importantly, languages. The legacy of French Colonialism has been recorded by both Western and Moroccan voices, with different opinions regarding the outcome. This […]
Border Crossing: Visa Renewal in Ceuta
Over the weekend, our group faced a minor issue: our passport stamps that we received when we entered the country were only good for 80 days, and thus wouldn’t last for the remainder of the trip. To resolve this, we had to leave the country and return to get a new stamp that would be […]
Public and Private
The following is the essay I wrote for my class with Dr. Fatima Sadiqi on gender issues in Morocco: From the first day of this class, we have greatly discussed the Moroccan-patriarchy as a space-based patriarchy. In this model, patriarchy exerts its control through dictating appropriate places for men and women to be and act. […]