Who You Are Matters.

               I come from this place, that some people think is a city, that others believe is a Spanish state, and that few have never heard of, but one that I think is really beautiful: it’s called Morocco. Unlike what you might have heard or seen in movies, my country is not only a land of sand, with camels, and people speaking languages you will never understand. It is also about modern cities with buildings and financial centers. Morocco is at the confluence of two worlds, and I have been myself raised in two cultures, the Moroccan one, that is more religious, with customs that are close to what we call the MENA (Middle East North Africa) region, and the French culture - having studied in a French school - got me to know more about Europe and the occident. This upbringing in a multicultural environment fostered my desire for freedom and pushed me to study in the USA. I know fairly well where I come from but saying that I know where I am going would be to lie, yet that doesn’t mean I am not going anywhere. At the moment, I would like to pursue a Master’s degree in France or the UK after graduating, and I am interested in corporate finance, audit, management, technology and computer science but I mostly want my work to enable me to travel. I plan to get there first by graduating from my bachelor’s degree, and do some internships to have a more clear career plan.

When it comes to how I am like my parents, I am meticulous like my father but also sometimes head in the air like my mother. We all love to travel, have a great sense of family and love to visit family members from time to time. What makes us different is the way we question the world around us. I find it necessary to question my religion and my beliefs while my parents don’t spend enough time in doing so.

Saying that I have developed expectations for myself totally on my own is not totally true, because of course, parents also have expectations from me, and before I even knew what expectations meant, someone had to set them for me, but growing up I learned that I was the only one knowing what I was capable of, and therefore that expectations had to be set by myself. One guy that surely knows how to set himself expectations, which is also one of my models is a filmmaker called Casey Neistat. He works with passion and this is what makes him successful.

I feel a special connection with wolves typically because I have the same deep desire for freedom they have. As far back as I can remember, I liked four particular trees at my grandmother's, because they were used as goalposts when I played soccer with my cousins.

My Rising Sign is in 26 Degrees Aries.
My Sun sign is in 25 Degrees Capricorn. 
My Moon sign is in 20 Degrees Taurus.

PS: for those wondering why the title is expensive teapot, it is just the literal translation of my name from Arabic.