I am certainly getting to know the Moroccan train system. Right now (thanks to my handy/dandy 3G) I am on the train back to Casa. Unfortunately I could not do the trip up and back in one day because the schedule wouldn't allow me to do everything that I had to do. So, I am staying tonight in the hotel that I stayed in last time which is two blocks from the embassy. Then I go there first thing in the morning. Grab my new and improved passport and meet a friend who is coming to visit for the weekend from Rabat. Then back to the house for dinner with the girls and to the mountains for Sat night. Then Gwen will go back to Rabat Sunday.
I have spent the last three days at another house in Ouirgane which is about 15 km from Asni. While I was not looking forward to the change of venue, it actually was very nice and the girls were sweet. Perhaps if I come back next year I may stay there for a little while since there won't be any room for a volunteer in the Asni house because it will be overcrowded with girls. I will see....it is still a while off. Anyway while at Ouirgane (which is even more isolated than Asni), I worked with the other American volunteer, Gretchen. Today we picked up trash outside the school that the girls go to. It was lots of fun and they were all singing and the sports teacher had them doing cheers. It was great.....meanwhile the place around the school is the pits....the children buy snacks from a little vendor outside the school and then they just dump the trash. Then they burned all the trash we collected. A little different than the US certainly.
Next week will be in Asni again until the 7th when the girls leave for vacation and i leave to go back to the US on the 10th until the 19th. Then back to Asni until May 11th, at which point I head to Paris for a few days before flying back to SFO.
I have spent the last three days at another house in Ouirgane which is about 15 km from Asni. While I was not looking forward to the change of venue, it actually was very nice and the girls were sweet. Perhaps if I come back next year I may stay there for a little while since there won't be any room for a volunteer in the Asni house because it will be overcrowded with girls. I will see....it is still a while off. Anyway while at Ouirgane (which is even more isolated than Asni), I worked with the other American volunteer, Gretchen. Today we picked up trash outside the school that the girls go to. It was lots of fun and they were all singing and the sports teacher had them doing cheers. It was great.....meanwhile the place around the school is the pits....the children buy snacks from a little vendor outside the school and then they just dump the trash. Then they burned all the trash we collected. A little different than the US certainly.
Next week will be in Asni again until the 7th when the girls leave for vacation and i leave to go back to the US on the 10th until the 19th. Then back to Asni until May 11th, at which point I head to Paris for a few days before flying back to SFO.
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