why we left morocco and why we left the usa to live in slovenia things have changed from my
first video why i left the usa to live in morocco go check that video out if you have not seen that
a lot's changed since that video that was 2019 it is 2021 now in june and the coronavirus is slowly
waning away we hope and here i am in slovenia in a forest recording this video uh we had been
in the usa after morocco why did we go to the usa i not been back in 15 16 months i not expected to
stay so much time in morocco it was time to see my family it was time to get some business in order
and we had to go uh andrea my partner was pregnant and you only have a limited amount of time there
and she had told me she did not want to have the baby in morocco
and me being first time i'm all about going to be with some family when this is happening
i've never had a child so she hasn't either i think it's a good time to be with our families now
so we went back to usa had some great times there check out those videos if you haven't seen them we
went to moroccan restaurant made some moroccan food saw the sites of chicago but that was
only six weeks people are confused where exactly we're at they're kind of making videos in between
i know our moroccan videos are the most popular so i've kind of done some clip shows check those out
if you haven't but why slovenia over the usa over morocco number one was our family we have that
both in the usa and slovenia of course and our adopted family in morocco we feel at home there
and we hope to go back in the coming winter but again we're about to have a child
and that's something that i don't know what that's going to be like it's a total adventure a journey
like anything i've never experienced so we're we're both kind of in wonder and we can't make
any commitments for plans until we see what that's like make sure everybody's healthy and feeling
good before making any promises of where we're gonna go so why slovenia then i said family right
also the safety for our family it's a safer place than the usa and this is where we have
residency or citizenship staying in morocco wasn't necessarily easy they had stopped giving
residentship during the corona times and in the usa too it's quite difficult for someone to come
and stay in addition to that i said safety you know murder rate's way lower not that i'm worried
about a baby getting murdered but well this got dark excuse me here it's uh it's a safe place it
feels good being here i've been here a week now and the people are very welcoming the family's
been very friendly to me and i'm grateful for that in addition to that insurance wise andrea's
insurance is here in slovenia so if she's going to get care at a doctor it's going to be the best
care for her the doctor is going to speak her language and morocco we're going to a doctor and
they only spoke french in some english but you want to be having this real connection
with your doctor where you could 100 communicate and understand each other so as a big reason why
we came to slovenia for the baby to have the baby and hopefully have the best outcome for emotional
and physical health for everybody so andrea is very grateful to be here at that time another
big addition like i said it was the insurance the cost of doctors so in america we would probably
be having a baby and end up in i don't know 15 20 30 000 in debt it depends on how smoothly it goes
where you go but that wasn't really an option for us so we're here in slovenia and as you
can see it's very beautiful the food's much different it's heavy there's a lot of meat and
the veggies and fruits are missing some of that moroccan watermelon right about now and the people
of course we're in a small village at the time at andrea's parents house and i think it's 2
000 people that live here so might be bigger than tamawanza probably smaller than tamrat or tagazoot
i haven't met many people you know we're staying at home a lot still doing some videos
and it's it's hard i'm gonna be honest it's it's an adjustment i'm happy to be here with
her family to meet everyone i'm slowly trying to learn the language but as i do this i realize
i know a lot more moroccan language and words than i do slovenian so it's kind of like starting all
over again with the language and communication her parents don't speak english so i'm doing my best
to be able to at least joke or communicate and be polite it's been a journey to get here especially
with the corona unknowns and the clock ticking on the pregnancy uh but again we're i'm happy to be
here we don't know what's coming in our lives we never know and in that first video i left america
to live in morocco i talked about nature rewarding courage so here we are to have a baby at this time
is it's kind of courageous you know we don't know the situation of borders or vaccines or there's so
much unknown the the world's going a little crazy you know i bought the bitcoin it went down so
who knows where we're gonna be a year from now you know a year ago we were in uh lockdown in morocco
and no plans for a child and here we are staring down the finish line here and it's an adventure so
you never know what you're gonna get here i am in slovenia talking about courage i'm in the forest
i'm looking out for ticks and bears uh it'd be cool to see some deer there's a lot of wildlife
here it's mountainous more so than illinois or chicago we see these green hills and we're
gonna have videos coming from slovenia soon and we hope to be coming to morocco in the winter because
it is still dear to our hearts and our family in america of course is still dear to our hearts so
we're trying to be some nomadic gypsies in these times again i don't know what it's gonna be like
with the family the original video was why i left america to live in morocco a lot of those
reasons still stand you know the politics the the nonsense i'm not gonna miss that the nightly
news the bad news another child shot another mass shooting i'm not gonna miss that here in slovenia
we just watch football the euro cup is on i'm getting into that so i'm feeling very european
here i've lived in europe before in spain i lived with a host family when i was doing my studies
so i'm a little in touch with european culture watching football and so but it's definitely an
adjustment coming here um it's it's different you know we got mosquitoes here we'll hang in there
though so thank you for watching it to this point we're open to suggestions for videos if you're a
slovenian viewer tell us what we gotta check out here if you're a moroccan viewer give us some
words of encouragement thank you for sticking with us american viewers thank you all for sticking
with us people all over the world thank you this is an adventure and i'm happy for you guys to
be a part of it i don't really see many people here besides andrea and as a family i don't have
friends here yet per se so viewers like you it's always nice to get a nice comment and it
makes us feel like uh we have this global social network so why i left america to live in morocco
why i left morocco to live in america for six weeks and why i left america to live in slovenia
this has been a journey in the european essay style where we kind of have and flow between
everything i try and go all in one go this is actually the fourth take i didn't know what
to say so thank you for making it here and listening to these ramblings from more acro