{"id":81,"date":"2013-10-31T00:17:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/?p=81"},"modified":"2013-10-31T00:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:17:56","slug":"my-experience-my-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"My Experience, My Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0marHaban! For two months this past summer I had the opportunity to study Arabic in Tangier, Morocco as part of a language-intensive federal scholarship program \u201cCLS\u201d (Critical Language Scholarship). While I had been studying Arabic the past two years at Loyola, this summer marked my first experience living in an Arabic-speaking country where I was fully immersed in the Arabic language and exposed to the incredibly vibrant and dynamic culture of Morocco. While I was able to experience a glimpse of life in an Arab country, there is much I have yet to learn and to reflect upon given the depth of the Arabic language and the dynamic of the Arabic-speaking world. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The eight weeks spent in Morocco were certainly challenging in many respects, but I look back on my time in Morocco with a sense of nostalgia. I find myself cherishing and missing the people the most, as well as the hustle-and-bustle of the night life, the markets in the old city, the 24-hour coffee shops, breaks to enjoy Moroccan tea, conversations with shop-keepers and taxi-drivers, and being constantly welcomed with hospitality and conversation from those I met in Morocco.<\/span>It was always an experience, and often an adventure. Although words and pictures can never entirely paint the picture, I look forward to sharing some of these experiences with you all on this blog!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0marHaban! For two months this past summer I had the opportunity to study Arabic in Tangier, Morocco as part of a language-intensive federal scholarship program \u201cCLS\u201d (Critical Language Scholarship). While I had been studying Arabic the past two years at Loyola, this summer marked my first experience living in an Arabic-speaking country where I was […]<\/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-81","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\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/eyeonthearabworld\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}