Whew! It has been a long week of training, and I am glad we can sleep in tomorrow and have a day off from structured studies. Our CBT group is planning to go see Volubilis, a former Roman settlement in Morocco that is not too far from our village. The weather report for tomorrow says it…
SbaH l-xir (good morning)! It is Sunday morning here, and Thomas and I slept very well last night, l’Hamdullah (Thanks to God–and check out this redux of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah!). The weather yesterday finally transitioned from rainy and cold to sunny and warm (l-barH ljaw zwin!=yesterday the weather was good). As of noon yesterday, Thomas and…
It is Sunday evening here in Morocco, and Thomas and I arrived at our Community Based Training (CBT) site earlier this afternoon. We will be here for the next 11 weeks. The past week was spent at a large hotel-resort in another part of Morocco where Peace Corps provided us with massive amounts of information related to…
Thomas and I arrived in Philadelphia on Sunday evening and spent most of yesterday in our initial Peace Corps orientation session. It was a wonderful day of meeting other trainees, finding out the details of how we get to Morocco, and (most importantly) re-familiarizing ourselves with why Peace Corps exists and why we chose to…
