Thursday, June 12, 2008

Week 4?

Hello Everyone!
Last night I was trying to think about what I would write on my blog this week and I came up with nothing particually interesting. Either my life is already boring, I'm adjusting to it and it only seems boring, or maybe a little of both.
Last weekend I visited a volunteer near the largest dam in Morocco. Apparently it provides somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of moroccos power. As you might expect there is a resivoir, and some other volunteers went swimming...which is prohibited. I know of one swimmer who got rather ill a few days later...not to say one caused the other...Im just saying.
My week at site was suprising uneventful. I did have an interesting encounter with some french speking tourists (doesnt mean they were french)...but it would probably not be apppropriate to post online. If you want full details, send me an email and I will be happy to elaborate.
Work on my house continues and they now have a portion of all four walls. There are now 5 men working on it everyday and my mother is working hard to feed them all. Building the house is hard work, but feeding them all has proven to be as well. The men eat seperatly from my host mom and myself, and one day she had to make eggs for us because the men ate all the food!
This is a picture of the souk (weekly market) in my internet town. It is far larger than the souk in my nearest town (mine has 2 rows). Vendors travel all around a region from one souk to the next selling produce, furniture, and pretty much anything imaginable. There is also a meat section...Ive acknowledged for sometime that I prefer to remain disconnected from my meat, and the souk experience here has confirmed that. I might be forced to become a vegitarian.
Have a great week and hopefully I'll have a fun new adventure to share next week.