So, it really is a small world after all.
On Tuesday, I met a girl named Sarrah who, it turns out, will be spending next year studying abroad at the wonderful Truman State University, where she will be the TA for the very first Arabic class offered by Truman. I'm relieved to find out there will actually be someone there who is a native Arabic speaker, because I doubt the French professor teaching the class can say some of the letters.
THEN, on Wednesday, I learned again what a small world it is. There is a group of teachers from Kansas City that are spending a few days here at AUI while on a 5 week tour of Morocco courtesy of a Fulbright scholarship. On Wednesday afternoon they got together with half a dozen of us American students just to chat, and it turns out that the guy I was talking to went to Mizzou and did his student teaching with my very favorite high school teacher, Mrs. Grupe! So now I have to write her and tell her that she was an awesome teacher and that while I was in Morocco I met this guy that she mentored. Now he is a librarian at the Metropolitan Community College in KC.
So that's that.
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That it is a small world is one of the ineffable things you learn while traveling. And that people are not so different after all (although their ideas of comfort food may be different). Those are things we hear all the time, but it isn't brought home to us until we experience it directly. Don't put off writing Mrs. Grupe -- she would love to hear your news!
it's a small world after all..
it's a small world after all..
it's a small world after all, it's a small, small world.
there is just one moon and one golden sun, and a smile means friendship to everyone,
thou the mountains are high, and the oceans are wide,
it's a small world after all!!!!
mom
So are you going to take Sarrah's Arabic class?
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