Blogs from Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco, Africa - page 12

Well we landed on time. Our flight from NY got a lil bit of a late start, but we made AMS on time as well. The train to Casa -Voys was leaving so we splurged and paid 80 dh on train for 2 tix. From Voys we got on train to Casa-Port, why stop in Casablanca if you don't see the mosque. The petit taxi we got at the train station left us like a 20 min walk from mosque, it was worth the walk though. Have to post pictures a lil later. Our train was leaving for Rabat until 930 so we took a cab close to train station and ate at alil restaurant. (Everything is olive seasoned?, if you don' know...I HATE olives and my lil sis loves them). The cab there was less ... read more

So here I am, in Africa for the first time! And I am experimenting a strange cultural shock. Not from seeing Africa, but from staying in the fanciest hotel I have ever seen, and will ever see. But first thing first.... After Nepal, I landed in PAris, where I was meeting an old friend. It was a blast to try to see all of PAris in... 48 hours!!! So we walked and took taxis and metros to see all the most famous places. I will not even try to list them all. Of course, I didn't really visit any of them, but just enough to say "been there" and want to return. I loved Paris, friendly people (who said PArisiens where rude?), amazing food, we did the real French thing, with chocolate croissant in the morning ... read more

OK so now I am going to see if I can upload all by myself... read more

OK, Cheryl is here now so we are uploading photos: Sorry for the delay!... read more

Here I am in Rabat. Got picked up Saturday a,m, in Casablance. Our homeb ase is quite differenty from the one in Ayacucho, it is in a very affluent suburb and aa nice villa with each room looking onto a big tyerrace and garden. We are close to embassies an one of the king 's palaces, with lots if police surrounding all these gated properties. Here are some pictures. We began our assignments Monday, and I and another go to a school for street children. We spend half an hour with each classroom, so far ages 4,5,m and 6,and the classes habve anywhere from 15 to 39 kids. Two days we will be working with three classes of 7,8, 9 year olds, also huge classes. It is going to be very difficult a) to teach anything ... read more