Catch Me If You Can

Dober dan! ("Good day" in Serbo-Croatian) I am so bad at keeping up with this blog. But also to be fair, I could not find Wi-Fi anywhere for the past two weeks while I was in Egypt. Now I'm back in Turkey visiting a friend and having some down time. Before diving into my time in the Balkans, I want to briefly talk about my leaving Morocco. I have no idea how I managed to write my last post without even mentioning how emotional leaving the country was. I went right into heading back to Italy and to the Balkans. I think I overlooked mentioning it because I had written in such a rush knowing I was already so behind on my "monthly" posts. Morocco: Sunrise in the Sahara Leaving Morocco was bittersweet. It was my first time being back since I had studied abroad there four years ago. Though I didn't expect to stay as long as three months there, I'm sooo happy that I did. My heart is so full. I got to see Morocco during a different season. I got to se...

Hello friends! This post is about two weeks late because August has got me all over the place. While my original plan was to stay in each place for about a month at a time at least, volunteer/work, meet people, and get my own space... August was quite difficult to do so since it is holiday month throughout the region. Organizations shut down for the month and a lot of businesses close. For this month, I am just traveling and moving around a lot through the Balkans and on my way to Turkey and Jordan. While I'm enjoying getting to see so many new places, often times it can be pretty exhausting and has definitely kept me busy and always on the go. ___________________________________________________________________________ July recap: If you read my previous post, you'd know I was still in Morocco but moved from Marrakech to up north working on an archaeological survey project. We spent the week days hiking through valleys and hills in the region in predetermined transects we...