VIN'S PEOPLE: Southeast student enjoys fascinating summer studying in Morocco
Published on: Sunday 14 July 2019
When 16-year-old Mikaela Boelkins awakens nowadays, it’s not to the sound of her iPhone at home.Rather, the Lakewood Ranch teenager is awakened by the undulating Islamic call to prayer emanating loudly from numerous minarets in Rabat, Morocco, where she is staying with a host family this summer.“It’s very intriguing … different,” she writes in her entertaining blog at mikaelainmorocco.com, adding in a separate email, “But I couldn’t be happier