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Jerash and Ajloun

Our third excursion was to the Roman ruins Jerash and the castle Ajloun in the North.

Jerash is the largest Roman ruins outside of Rome and approximately only 5% of the city has been excavated. I have seen many small ruins in Morocco and throughout Jordan, but nothing prepared me for the size of Jerash. The ruins were extensive and it’s hard to imagine what the complete city looked like in the…

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CLS and the First Week in Amman

At the Roman amphitheater in Amman

The past three years I have applied to the Critical Language Scholarship Program which is a fully funded U.S. Department of State program that is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American university students. This is a highly competitive scholarship and I am very grateful and happy to be a recipient of this year.

I attended a two…

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A Weekend in Chefchaouen

Last weekend, I went to Chefchaouen, a city in the North of Morocco with some of my classmates and friends. Before I go any further, it’s important to preface this post with a huge THANK YOU to Gabrielle and Sarah for taking all of the photos that are featured in this blog post. Gabrielle has an amazing camera phone and so graciously agreed to be the photographer for the weekend. I am so grateful…

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A Renewal

Hello friends,

I know I haven’t written in a while, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about it.

I’ve never really thought of myself as a blogger or even a writer so this doesn’t come naturally to me. I know that I never wrote about leaving Morocco, probably because it was hard for me to leave. I didn’t feel ready. I really hit my rhythm in the last three months of my exchange and felt like…

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cool-beenz

Shoutout to all the 1997-2001 kids who are somehow hybrids of millennials and gen z. We are the Ultimate Generation of 90’s nostalgia and new age internet depression.

peonyswimwear

cornersoftheworld

Pink sunrise in Sur / Oman | by anjči

pairedaeza

“In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.”

— Nizar Qabbani

obesitysherpa

I would watch every event if they did this!

keuppy

And here’s our average joe, who was just explained five minutes ago how curling works.

Here’s Stacey, she’s ice skated twice in her whole life and today she competes beside the best in the world and-oh she fell again. What a good sport look at her get up using the wall.