Here are my favorite photos from the entire semester ! I wanted to share a small glimpse of a very long and exciting and exhausting four month journey. Looking at my “vietnam” or “morocco” or “bolivia” photos separately just constitute snapshots of time and smaller parts of a whole. When I try to glide through …
16 days left, 99 days complete. Falling into a rhythm in Cochabamba has been nice. Life has consisted of: daily class and guest lectures, site visits to farms and schools and water treatment plants, daily gym excursions, lots of bolivianos spent on aloe juice, quinoa cookies, and abundant snacks from the norte del marte, delicious …
After concluding our Moroccan month in Casablanca with a soccer match and great final meals, we headed north to Spain for the night. Then to Peru and finally to Bolivia. Within 3 days we were on 4 continents, in 4 time zones, and at 4 airports, and you could see the absence of sleep apparent …
Currently writing from my residence in Marrakech, a beautiful hotel with lovely interior design and nice tiles and incredible attention to detail that cannot be found anywhere else. I am listening to alt-j and typing up my study guide for my quiz tomorrow. I am meeting with my group after this to prepare my midterm …
Morocco has been a whirlwind! After a wonderful week in my homestay in rabat and a week up in the atlas mountains, I had one week of spring break. Unfortunately, that was spent with two visits to the hospital and a week in bed with multiple infections, but all is great now! Today after working …
While studying abroad in Morocco, my gluten allergy contributed to an evening of spontaneous pantomime and endless laughter upon joining my homestay family for my first dinner. My homestay dad, Khalil, was asking/miming/attempting to communicate: “Okay, I see here,” pointing to my homestay form, “that you’re allergic to meat?” Laughing, I replied, “No, I am …
I never thought I would say it, but I am getting accustomed to the instability of life abroad! There is routine in newness and routine in everything for that matter. I asked the Tufts representative who visited my high school what a couple of adjectives that could describe the “typical” Tufts student would be? And …