The reason I got to travel over to this other side of the Atlas is for a weekend workshop to train me as a VSN counselor. The Volunteer Support Network is a group of PCVs who are trained to counsel our peers. We are not professionals (three days of training cannot work miracles) but when we are out in our sites it is sometimes not very feasible to go to get professional counseling in Rabat. Peace Corps does provide psychologist services (and I have heard they are very good) though sometimes talking to a Moroccan, no matter how good they are, isn’t what we need. We need another American who understands what it is like to live in a fishbowl, who understands why the sight of a plastic bag can make a person want to
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