Overseas program(s):
Morocco Spring 2015
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Troyes - 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 […]
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. […]
Essays Essays Essays - This is going to be a short post. For all the students here, life has focused in on writing essays while still finding ways to see the last bits of the city that we can. We have three major projects due– a research paper on gender for Dr. Sadiqi, a research paper on social movements […]
Time Change - Our group went to Cetua this weekend, a Spanish enclave on the Northern Coast. We spent one night so that we could renew our visas the next morning. When Ryan and I woke up in our hotel room, things got confusing quickly. Both of our Moroccan throw-away phones told us that it was 6:15 in […]
What a Weekend - Today, March 22nd, is my father’s birthday. I spent the weekend driving from Fez to Sidi Ifni with Pauls, Karissa, Emma, Ryan, and Sam for the opening of Dar Si Hmad’s fog water system. We spent Friday driving down, making a stop in Marrakech to visit the CLC and all the old faces, before arriving […]
Dama versus Sheque - Morocco is only the second outside of the US that I have been to, the other being China. Early on in the trip, I decided that a life goal of mine would be to have a chess board from every country I spend time in. I already had one from the US and from China, […]
Street Life in Morocco - For a while now, my shoes have been broken. Specifically, half of the soul of my left shoe is detached from the rest of the shoe. More than once, I almost face-planted in the street because the soul get’s caught on something, and Hannah started to call my shoes “Will’s flappers,” for the sound they […]
This is Fez - For the first few days here, most of us only went two places; our homes, and the Institute for Language and Culture (INLAC). INLAC is inside the old medina, and is the school where we’ll be taking our classes for the next two months. My host-mother just calls it “al-madrasa,” and that’s where I tell […]