I have arrived in Rabat. I flew out of JFK last night at 8:30 and got into Casablanca sometime around 6:00 am local. The flight itself was only six hours but you can take up subsequent grammatical errors with jet lag from one hour of sleep. Just had orientation at Amideast, the school where we will be studying, and am about to meet my host family. The city looks like an awesome place and I am starting to struggle through the language transistion. I hope that in a week I will be comfortable. For now, Barak Allah Feek (may God bless [View Full Entry]

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Time flies when you're having fun and blog posts are slow to catch up. I will post this in three parts for those of you afraid of long paragraphs of text. The trip got off to a great start. Saturday, my dad and I drove to New York for a 8:00 flight out of JFK. It was a nice weather for the drive and I made the bad idea of sleeping for most of it. I got to JFK with plenty of time. As I went through the check point and waved goodbye to my dad I had a strange feeling. [View Full Entry]

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Tomorrow begins my journey to Morocco. Today has been goodbyes and packing. At this point, I am so close to departure that I am ready to dive in. Nervous, yes: prepared, maybe: ready to speak nothing but French for 6 weeks, we'll find out soon enough. I've got my clothes, books, and electronics and from here I just follow directions. Tomorrow, I drive with my dad to NY, where I'll fly from JFK straight to Casablanca. Next time I post, I'll be basking in the North African sun. Until then, happy Memorial day weekend. [View Full Entry]

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