{"id":64,"date":"2012-11-05T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/?p=64"},"modified":"2012-11-05T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:04:03","slug":"last-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Last Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/files\/2012\/11\/The-Mosque-of-Hassan-II-e1352113346594.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/files\/2012\/11\/The-Mosque-of-Hassan-II-e1352113346594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Mosque-of-Hassan-II-e1352113346594.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Mosque-of-Hassan-II-e1352113346594-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>I still find myself eating with my hands and adding unreasonable amounts of milk to my coffee.\u00a0 Occasionally a &#8220;shukran&#8221; or &#8220;Alhamdulillah&#8221; slips out, and I often recall the Moroccans and their similarities or differences with Americans as I consider this or that social theory or anthropological study.\u00a0 Via Facebook and email I\u2019ve harbored my jealousy towards friends from the program still studying Arabic in Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt.\u00a0 I miss the wandering alleys of the old medina and getting to know shopkeepers through fierce bargaining, but I don\u2019t plan on staying away for long.\u00a0 I&#8217;m applying for the CLS program as well as the Middlebury Language Summer program for this coming summer, and even if I don\u2019t get either scholarship a friend tells me about a good Arabic school for a hundred dollars a week in Casablanca.\u00a0 In some ways I hope that\u2019s what I\u2019ll end up doing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/files\/2012\/11\/Inside-the-Mosque-e1352113190654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/files\/2012\/11\/Inside-the-Mosque-e1352113190654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Inside-the-Mosque-e1352113190654.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Inside-the-Mosque-e1352113190654-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Mosque of Hassan II<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still find myself eating with my hands and adding unreasonable amounts of milk to my coffee.\u00a0 Occasionally a &#8220;shukran&#8221; or &#8220;Alhamdulillah&#8221; slips out, and I often recall the Moroccans and their similarities or differences with Americans as I consider this or that social theory or anthropological study.\u00a0 Via Facebook and email I\u2019ve harbored my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}