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By Mason Merrill who is currently studying with AFP in Alexandria, Egypt. So, here’s the thing, Egyptians are sweet talkers. Real sweet. There are about thousand expressions to learn, but the one for right now is, “Just five minutes.” Before the actual flight over here, we had a day-and-a-half pre-departure orientation/culture-adaptation workshop in D.C. One Read More...
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By Basia Borodziewicz from her blog Co Innego Cebula at http://cebula-basia.blogspot.com/ Usually when I travel abroad, I don’t want to return to the States. When I take my first flight from another country, I feel a pang of regret for leaving. Then as I hear more English with each following plane, I try to hold on Read More...
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September 2011
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I wish I had had the time to write all of you while I was still in Morocco, while the smell of fresh orange juice was still waking me up in the mornings and I was sitting in my secret fig tree on the edge of my campus. But maybe you’ll be glad to hear Read More...
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By Charles Nwaogu I found myself one night trekking towards a small shop in a derelict Moroccan neighborhood in search of a cheap meal. People sat around the local gated mosque conversing in a dialect from which I could only process certain words. On my left lay a great field of rubble where children gleefully Read More...
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Ahlan wa Sahlan….Greetings from Morocco! We’re living in Medina Meknes, a city in the north, in the Hotel Transatlantique. The hotel is really old and enormous, like a palace….a palace with a Discotheque. There’s a mountain view from my balcony and orange trees right outside my window. And there’s a bidet in my bathroom. That’s Read More...
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April 2011
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For all of us planning on studying abroad for this summer or the entire year, no official decision has been made as to when or where AFP will be sending us. I know most students have had their minds set on Damascus or Alexandria since joining AFP. Recently I’ve heard about the possibility of AFP Read More...
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March 2011
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Leah Gilman
The best piece of advice I got before I left for Cairo wasn’t from a student who had travelled there before or from the family I was going to stay with. It was from my mom. (Who else, right?) While I was worrying about how well I would be able to communicate and what to Read More...
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