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| Alyssa and me in our scarves |
First of all, I would like to say thank you to everyone who has been keeping up with my blog! I definitely wasn't expecting so many people to follow my posts while I was here in Morocco. I hope you all are entertained and are enjoying the pictures!
Also, I know that my last post was a bit sad and kind of a downer, so this post is going to be about happy things! Like friends and stuff :)
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| The first humans I attached myself to |
Everyone who has been to college has known those first day jitters in a brand new place with new people and new everything really. You're worried you won't make friends or that you'll hate where you decided to go to school or that you're professors will be lousy or that no one will like you and you'll be the outcast of the group. You're also paranoid that people aren't who they say they are due to the ever present skill known as peacocking. For those of you who have never heard this term, it's basically people putting up a front and acting 'cool' to try to impress people and make friends. That was for you Aja Rodriguez!
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| More humans that I love |
So...imagine that first day, night, week of college, but on steroids. You're flying by yourself into this new world with no friends, no idea how to speak the language (in my case, French and Arabic), the culture is very different, and you're exhausted from all the planes and trains and taxis it takes just to get to the school. Okay, now that you're in that mindset, what would you do? Sit by yourself in your room and only leave for orientation and classes? NOPE! You attach yourself to closest being that breathes and smiles at you. It's a survival skill that totally works (in most situations)!
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| Sofie and me at the beach |
What do you do next? Learn everything there is to know about said being that you've attached yourself to for purely survival and sanity reasons. Haha! But seriously, you become really close with the friends you make in these types of situations because you're just thrown into water that's 50ft deep and told to swim to shore. It's scary; it's stressful; it makes you cry, but you grow as a person and make lifelong friends in the process.
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| One of the many snapchats sent |
All of that being said, I have made some amazing friends these past four weeks...holy cow! They have become my lifeboat in more ways than one. For example, they all speak better Arabic than me, so it's nice when I have no idea what's going on and they kinda sorta maybe come to my rescue. I would be lost without my friends, and I'm so grateful that I've had this opportunity to meet them and know them as fellow humans.
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| The crew being goofy |
My friends have kept me sane, and for that I am eternally grateful. We travel together, send incredibly ridiculous Snapchats to each other all the time, workout together (which is a bad idea when one of your friends goes to West Point), eat all the food in the world in one sitting, and just enjoy each others company whenever we can. I am on an amazing adventure with amazing people, and I can't see what the rest of this trip holds for us.