{"id":2143,"date":"2022-06-27T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:18:31","slug":"mission-update%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%af-%d9%a1-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/2022\/06\/27\/mission-update%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%af-%d9%a1-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Update:\u0648\u0627\u062d\u062f) \u0661 – one)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

21\/06\/2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission Status: In Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skill: Religious and Musical Comprehension<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Status: Accquired<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When coming to Morocco, I was fully prepared for the presence of the Islamic faith to be prevalent in my daily life. This couldn\u2019t be more true when on my first night I was woken up at 4:30 am after some serious jetlag to the sound of the first prayer call of the day. I can now say I have become accustomed to the prayer calls but I still pause in awe whenever I hear the sound coming from multiples mosques (\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0648\u0627\u0645\u0639) within a very short distance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I expected to be surrounded by the Islamic faith, I have been surprised by Morocco’s beautiful blend of ethnicities and religious influences. One of the now many routes to school in the morning sees my roommate and I walk pass a big Jewish cemetery in the heart of the city. Additionally, I was fortunate enough this past weekend to attend the Gnaoua Festival in Casablanca. The Gnaoua music stems from a mixture of Islamic Sufism and sub-Saharan, pre-Islamic African tradition. Legend claims that the Gnaoua music is so potent that it takes over the body and causes spontaneous religious dancing. While I myself did not experience the magic of spontaneous dance, I was enraptured with the beautiful blend of traditional instruments and the call and response verses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volubilis (Roman ruins near Meknes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mountain in Agadir that reads “God, Homeland, King”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chefchaouen <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Volubilis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Skill: Colloquial Daily Greetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Status: In Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very first thing I learned in Morocco was the importance of greetings. How you address someone, what you say, how you situate your body or gesture with your hands make a very big impression about yourself before you even know a person. When I first met my host mom (\u0627\u0645\u064a) and my host sister (\u0639\u0627\u0626\u0634\u0629), I have enraptured into a hug and a series of cheek kisses that established my place in the family sturcture and secured my place in the intimate feminine relations of my household. Furthermore, when I met my language partner, a university student who I meet with every week to learn more about Meknes, the colloquial Arabic (Darija), and other Arabic related topics, I was put to the test with my greeting skills when I was forced to navigate a series of cheek kisses and greetings. Now, I can safely say the greeting people has become one of my favorite parts of my day because it allows me to interact with the local people in a warm and welcoming manner. Despite learning the various greetings, there are still many greetings and conversational elements that I am still trying to grasp. The biggest skill I have yet to master is the many ways to response to thank you. Before my travels to and around Morocco, the only you\u2019re welcome I knew was \u0639\u0641\u0648\u0627, but now I have been exposed to more sayings: \u0644\u0627 \u0634\u0643\u0631\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0648\u0627\u062c\u0628 (no thanks it\u2019s [my] duty<\/em>), \u0645\u0631\u062d\u0628\u0627 and  \u0627\u0647\u0644\u0627 (both common greetings – equivalent to welcome<\/em>). These are only a few examples of an upcoming study that I will conduct in hopes of developing a master list of the possible responses to thank you for all situations. \u0625\u0646 \u0634\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647! (God willing<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

21\/06\/2022 Mission Status: In Progress Skill: Religious and Musical Comprehension Status: Accquired When coming to Morocco, I was fully prepared for the presence of the Islamic faith to be prevalent in my daily life. This couldn\u2019t be more true when on my first night I was woken up at 4:30 am after some serious jetlag … Continue reading Mission Update:\u0648\u0627\u062d\u062f) \u0661 – one)\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[518611],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-morocco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}