October 29, 2011

First views of Tunis


I left the Qalam wa Lawh apartment at 4:00 this morning and took a drive down to Casablanca to catch my plane to Tunis. I haven't yet come to a decision on whether going to Tunisia was a good idea or not. I'm not afraid for my safety or anything, rather I just really miss the people with whom I was able to spend the last seven weeks. I honestly can't imagine what my life was like before I knew all of them. It just seems so much like they are the friends that I have always had. While, I'm sure I will see some of them again (hopefully soon) it still seems so daunting to leave people who have been so instrumental in what has been some of the best weeks of my life.

But now I'm sitting in a train station in Tunisia waiting for a train to take me down the coast so I can sit on a beach alone for a week and perhaps come up with some kind of plan for, if not the rest of my life, at least the next couple of months. I'll be on a plane to Egypt in 6 days, I'll see my dad in about 2 weeks when he visits me in Cairo and, inshallah, I will be back home in 5 weeks.  

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