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-Bringing a little salsa wherever I go- Stories about living, working, and traveling in Morocco, Europe, and the Middle East
About Me
- Jonathan aka Si Yousef
- Morocco
- Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Morocco, 2008 - 2010), travel addict, professional couchsurfer, big time foodie, salsa fanatic, from nowhere in particular, and interested in promoting eco-friendly businesses and social outreach ventures.
My Moroccan Name
Late in September of 2008, I arrived at my Community-Based-Training site where I would be residing with a host family for the next two months. As I sat down for my first dinner, my host mother, who I had met a little earlier, tried to introduce me to everyone at the table, but had difficulty pronouncing my name. I repeated my name. My host siblings tried to pronounce it, which then lead my host father to blurt out, "Yousef." Everyone smiled and mumbled Yousef then Jonathan until a consensus was reached when I was then pronounced Yousef or Joseph in English.
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