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Amine, a staff member at IES Abroad Rabat, laughed at our amazed faces. “Guys,” he said, leaning down to pet a cat wandering along the street, “this is just the trailer!” We were on a tour of Rabat, having landed in the country barely 24 hours earlier, and we still couldn’t believe what Amine was reminding us: this tour was just the trailer for the movie, the preview of where we get to live for the next semester. Here are some of the highlights from that tour.
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Sarah Mamlet
<p>My name is Sarah, and I'm from New England but I study psychology (and math, and religion, and everything else) at Vassar College in the Hudson Valley. When I'm not doing schoolwork, you can find me singing in a choir, at ballet class, or binge watching TV shows with my friends.</p>