{"id":23483,"date":"2025-06-17T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=23483"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:17:56","slug":"spc-morocco-eternally-grateful-for-the-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/spc-morocco-eternally-grateful-for-the-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC Morocco: Eternally grateful for the opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The breathtaking landscapes, intricate architecture, and rich culture and history of Morocco were among the factors contributing to my desire to travel to the country. However, because of a combination of antiquated ideas about the way women are treated in the MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa), combined with my own self-limiting beliefs, I thought it would not be possible to visit Morocco as a solo traveler. When I initially applied to SPC\u2019s study abroad program to visit the country, I did so because I thought traveling with a group would be the only way to visit safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By experiencing Morocco through my own eyes, not only were Western mythologies of an antiquated, repressive anti-women culture dispelled\u2014but so were many mythologies I had believed about my own inner world and the outer world at large. Firstly, I think it is very important to note that even walking outside alone with another girl my age at night, I felt safer in Casablanca than I do in St. Petersburg after dark. Most importantly though, in the absence of an explicit danger, I learned that I possess the courage within myself to step outside of my comfort zone, try new things, make connections, and expand my heart and mind in ways I did not previously know were possible. I am eternally grateful for the opportunity studying abroad provided me to see beyond my little world here at home .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013\u00a0Naiyah, SPC Morocco Study Abroad Program, May 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The breathtaking landscapes, intricate architecture, and rich culture and history of Morocco were among the factors contributing to my desire to travel to the country. However, because of a combination of antiquated ideas about the way women are treated in the MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa), combined with my own self-limiting beliefs, I … Continue reading SPC Morocco: Eternally grateful for the opportunity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[952,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morocco-2025","category-study-abroad","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23485,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions\/23485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}