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Wed, 17 Sep 2014 | By hoswal01 | Views [385] | Video | Scholarship Entry
I am unequivocally under qualified for this scholarship. Like most 25 year olds, I have been planning my career for the past 15 or so years. Turkish oil wrestler, politician, professional footballer, doctor, writer. And listed in chronological order, ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Film Scholarship to Mexico
Thu, 4 Sep 2014 | By madocflynn | Views [359]
Wednesday 25th June 2014
As we descended into Marrakech the sun glimmered in a red haze as it set. The desert sand colouring the sky its unique colour. The landscape of fields and dirt roads look like the path of water as it cuts through a dusty ... Read more >
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 | By hoswal01 | Views [508]
I've decided to leave my job and travel the world again, this time with cameras ready. I'm just back from my first stop, where I spent 10 days exploring Fez, Marrakesh, Essaouira, Cassablanca, the Western Sahara and many places in between.
Full ... Read more >
Tags: beach, casablanca, fez, marrakech, morocco, road trip, travel
Fri, 1 Aug 2014 | By kakimono | Views [759]
At 3 AM my alarm went off and I forced myself out of bed and through my morning routine. Then I looked down and realized that they looked the same way they had the night before- long and unpainted. Natasha had been disapproving of this, so I'd asked ... Read more >
Tags: airplanes, airports, endings, flying, reading, travelling
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [669]
When I got back to my house, I gathered up the presents I'd previously gotten for my host family and went upstairs. These presents had been purchased back in Chicago, and I'd meant to give them to my host family when I first arrived. But then Saida was ... Read more >
Tags: endings, gifts, river, speeches
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [639]
I still had some last-minute shopping I needed to do. At this point, it was only a couple specific things that didn't match the couple of specific things that other people needed. So I decided to test myself and go shopping in the Mdina alone.
The ... Read more >
Tags: fish, shopping, spices, wandering
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [564]
On Friday we met up together to go book shopping. It was either that or explore the Chellah. Erika and Cynthia had both wanted to buy books before we left, and I'm never going to vote against a bookstore.(Unless it's “who wants to go to the bookstore ... Read more >
Tags: books, endings, juice, marina bay
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [652]
While I still had twenty pages left, Natasha texted me and asked if I wanted to meet up (with her, Erika, and Cynthia) at the entrance of the Casbah at 3. It was then 2:30. From the center to my house is a half hour walk, and the Casbah's a bit ... Read more >
Tags: casbah, cats, creepy guys, flowers, turtle
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [557]
At the end of poli sci on Wednesday, professor Ahmadi showed us the questions that we would need to write about for the final. We had between then and 10:30 the next day to submit the assignment, though it wasn't until around 6:00 that night that ... Read more >
Tags: classes, endings, library, test
Sun, 27 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [704]
After class, I met up with Cynthia and Natasha for book shopping. Natasha was looking for an English/Arabic Koran for her brother and Cynthia was looking for 1001 Arabian Nights . I just like surrounding myself with books.
It had begun ... Read more >
Tags: arabic, books, tea
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [647]
When we walked out of the train station and into Rabat, I commented that it felt much cooler. It always felt cooler in Rabat than it did wherever else we visited.
“That's because it's hooome,” Natasha said. I breathed in the ... Read more >
Tags: endings, marina bay, music, school
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [689]
Our first priority upon reaching the trains station was to get tickets back to Rabat. This proved trickier than it seemed. The machines wouldn't work, then finally told us there weren't enough seats. We decided to try standing in line to see if ... Read more >
Tags: beach, ftour, spain, tangiers, train
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [715]
Without mule riding to go to, we got up at 9, ate breakfast, and got a taxi to the bus station. Natasha and I could both use an ATM, so after we bought our bus tickets we left Nathan and Cynthia with the bags and went off to find one.
Nathan ... Read more >
Tags: atm, bus, taxi, transportation
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [554]
While we were eating lunch, the woman who did pretty much all interactions with us at the auberge came over and told us that we weren't going to be able to ride mules today because it was too hot out. We asked if it would work to go the next day ... Read more >
Tags: blue, communism, olive oil, shopping, stars, yarn
Thu, 24 Jul 2014 | By kakimono | Views [809]
On Saturday morning, we got up for breakfast at 8:30. They brought out orange juice and coffee and Moroccan tea. If it weren't for the orange juice and tea, the fly in the coffee would have been even more upsetting than it was. They also had a ... Read more >
Tags: books, flowers, hiking, mountains, rocks, streams, waterfall
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