My name is Ellias and I am an athlete. I am two different nationalities, part American and part Moroccan and I have lived all over the world. I like all the traditional foods of the all the countries that I have lived in. I have lived in Colombia, South America, Virginia, U.S.A and Morocco, Africa so I am a real globetrotter. I enjoy sports of all kinds but the sports that I enjoy most are American football, basketball, soccer, and swimming. I can speak fairly good French, fluent Spanish, English, and a little bit of Arabic. I have enjoyed living in all the places that I have lived in but Colombia and Morocco have been my favorite of all of them although the life style of living is very different in each place.

I have lived in places from North America to Bogota Colombia in South America, but Morocco is the farthest place have lived in my life.

The only place that I have lived in that is worth comparing to Morocco is Colombia in South America. I have enjoyed living in both Morocco and Colombia even though they have almost nothing in common. In Bogota we lived in apartments because it is such a big city the only way to live in a house was to be out in the country. We didn’t only live in apartments because we were in a big city but also because they were safer than houses because Bogota was not always the safest place, the crime ratings were actually pretty high. My favorite part about colombia is the food, they have food for almost every holiday like small fried dough balls for christmas and the they had so many different kinds of fruit that you couldn’t believe it. In Colombia I went to a school called Colegio Nueva Granada and it was huge. It had 4 basketball courts, 1 track field, 4 soccer fields, 2 bookstores a giant cafeteria that could seat about 200 kids and and area for middle school, high school and an area for elementary. My class had about 25 kids and 3 classes. It was a nice school and I had a lot of friends so it was hard to leave but i knew that I would enjoy my next school just as much. I had lived in Bogota for most of my life so when we had to move to Morocco it was pretty emotional but i knew that every place I moved I would meet new friends and have new and great experiences and that is what allowed me emotionally, to move to Morocco.

When I first came to Morocco I was so excited because I had been told that we would be living in a house instead of an apartment so I would have space to run around and everything. I was happy that I would finally have a back yard, but since I had lived in Bogota for so long I was accustomed to always having to stay inside because it was not safe, so when i was told that I would be allowed to bike around town I was thrilled that I was living somewhere where I could finally get out of the house. When I first arrived here I didn’t have many friends but that all changed after the first 2 weeks here when I met almost everyone that I hang out with today in that one day. But one of my favorite things about Morocco like In Colombia is the traditional food on the holidays. I also like the school in Morocco because it is more friendly and it is smaller. I like smaller schools because it is easier to fit in unlike the school in colombia where you had to push your way into a group of kids. Morocco and Colombia are very different places, from the food to the schools but I like the both the same but in different ways and I ‘am sure that I will like my next school.