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an afternoon in El Jadida
While en route to Beach Weekend in Oualidia, the Fulbright ETAs met up in El Jadida. One of our sisters is posted there, and she was kind enough to invite us to lunch at Dar Harte where she served some...
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this one time, in El Jadida, I hugged my taxi driver.
Ordinarily, I avoid all physical contact with males in public. In my former life, I was okay with casual contact like shaking hands or a pat on the back, but after having lived in Errachidia for the...
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making my day; an afternoon in Pilsen
This afternoon, I met up with a friend in Pilsen for the purposes of lunching and discussing the Fulbright application process. After a leisurely meal of vegetarian burritos, we picked up some Italian...
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a weekend in London
In the summer of 2007, I spent 20 hours or so in London while on my way back to Chicago from Rome, but I did not get to see much of the city. This weekend, I got to know London a bit better. I spent...
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language learning at the zoo
Learning any new language is difficult, and this is definitely the case with learning Polish. My mouth has trouble producing some of the sounds necessary, my ears have a problem differentiating between...
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Thanksgiving in Warsaw
As an American holiday, Thanksgiving is not typically celebrated in Poland. I spent the day reminiscing about Thanksgivings past: as a little kid at my Grandma’s house, as a teenager at my parents’...
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language learning at the kinoteka
Instead of watching the Super Bowl, I spent Sunday hanging out with a friend of mine. After weeks of seeing posters around town advertising the movie W ciemności, I made plans to finally go see it....
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Spring Break in Morocco.. and Spain
This afternoon, I cleaned out my backpack in preparation for this year’s spring break travels. While cleaning, I found my CTM bus ticket from Tetouan to Casablanca. Seeing the ticket for the first...
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this one time, on the Moroccan border, one of us was almost turned away
After being reminded of last year’s spring break yesterday, I can’t stop thinking about (and laughing over) the adventure we had crossing back into Morocco from Spain. There were four in our party, and...
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Ninjas don’t have wings
A year ago today, our beloved Ninja found himself trapped on our rooftop in Errachidia, Morocco. We didn’t know about this at the time, and that proved to be almost fatal for him. Earlier in the day,...
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