Getting integrated into AUI’s student life has been a tedious affair of many lectures that simply seem to reinforce the fact that we are, gasp, being introduced to a different culture and should expect things to be different. While I understood why they wanted to verbally prepare us for the differences between Western Culture and that of Morocco, I have never felt power points presentations were really the best way to approach introducing people to something outside of their realm of experience.
The moment that drove home that I wasn’t in the Great North anymore, was looking at the questionnaire that was issued to incoming Freshman, I will try to find a photo, that provided very two very different choices when it came to what kind of employment your parents might have.
During the same lecture that I was given the freshman survey it was simply fantastic to have a member of AUI’s faculty start talking about PDA (Public Displays of Affection) and how he didn’t explain what the acronym stood for during the parents visit because he wanted to avoid the controversy of more conservative parents learning their child might hold hands, or more, while going to college.
When I went to the SAO (Student Activities Organization) sponsored Karaoke night it was quite the experience watching girls wearing head scarves singing along to songs with pretty explicit lyrics. For me there was some light embarrassments earlier in the evening when I tried to sing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, while my partner (her name escapes me right now) and I had a relatively weak start we managed to finish with quite a bit of overly dramatic flourish. After coming down from in front of the audience I learned that Eddie Izzard was completely correct when he said its 70% how you look, 20% how you sound, and only 10% of what you say.
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