Thursday, July 20

Hi everyone!

It's Thursday- I just finished another school day. Tomorrow is our last day of summer school, and our focus now is finishing well. Our team has been affected by a bug/virus; most teachers have had it (I've had only faint symptoms, but seem to be the healthiest on the team at this point). Today, my team teacher was ill, so I took both first and second grade students for the school day. I've had to modify my lesson plans quite a bit!


Yesterday, those of us who were well took a trip into Rabat, the capital of Morocco, for a short sight-seeing trip. Our trip on the train turned into a huge ordeal, with a surprising evacuation of the direct train we were on. Rather than fighting the large crowd of people getting onto the second-class section of the train, we opted to take taxis to Rabat. Once there, we visited the Mausoleum (sp?) in which the former Kings are buried, and witnessed a burial procession about the time we arrived at the Mosque.
In Morocco, those who are Muslim need to be buried on the same day that they pass away. This procession included the deceased, and all the men in the family. We also walked through the Medina (old city) section of Sale, which was much different than that of Fes. This one was very spacious, very clean and very white (almost resembling something found in Greece).



Today, we are travelling into the shopping center of Casa for some last minute purchases,
and then having dinner at the home of some workers from our organization. Tomorrow, we pack up our classrooms and our suitcases...


Jamie