Over the past few weeks the Australian Lewis and Clark College gang has learned about the basic biology behind a few of the country’s most fascinating natural occurrences. At the beginning of this trip I wrote about Darling Harbour and Nemo’s triage of fellow fish that escaped its sheltered waters back to the Great Barrier […]
Vegemite
One of the things we love about Portland is the food culture, and as a result we’ve been very interested in the similarities and differences between Australian and U.S. approaches to food throughout our stay. In many ways, Australia and the United States have strongly overlapping food cultures. Familiar meats, vegetables, and fruits abound. But […]
Master of Survival
26/3/15 Some of us learn how to speak another language. Others excel in the sciences, mathematics, dance, and poetry. We are practice-rs beginning, growing through trial and error. or we progress, become proficient, fluent and yet still learning while some, the fewer of us, the dedicated, the bloody and sweaty, the diligent, determined, the […]
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 […]