I just got back from AIESEC National Conference! It was AMAZING! I met so many new people. I went as part of AIESEC Hassan, which is located right next to AMIDEAST in Agdal here in Rabat. Joining AIESEC was like the best decision of my entire college career. I think I am going to stay part of AIESEC Hassan this semester, they are all super fun. My favorite part was sitting with all the other AIESECers while they sang songs in Arabic all night long!
So I haven't written in the past few weeks so time for an update. Egypt is in the middle of a revolution, which has pretty much dominated the media worldwide. The students from Egypt were evacuated and about half went to Jordan, with the other half coming here to Morocco. I haven't really talked to the new students much as I was gone for the weekend and they just arrived a few days ago but they seem pretty nice. This is really going to change our classes though, which sucks sooo much!!! I think 12 new students are here, so that doubles some of our class sizes!!
We traveled to Casablanca on Monday to see the women's institute. It was really interesting. The center was a place for single mothers to become educated in a job field so they can support their child rather than having to abandon them. We met the founder of the association who told us a bunch of stories about why she started the institute, and explained how the center works. Then we went to the nursery and played with some of the kids. It was a lot of fun.
I need to get going soon, Super Bowl tonight! We are spending the night at AMIDEAST so we can watch the game when it airs. Amelia baked chocolate chip cookies and I made chili (sort of). We had to improvise on the ingredients, but everything should be great.
Peace
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