And I use it all the time by accident. oops.
Well, everyone, i have officially found out my site for the next two years. in the interest of my personal security/to keeep the creepers from knowing too much about me, I won't say the town exactly, but I am in Essauoria province. () It's definitely in a beach town. I'm very excited (as many of you know, i do love my beaches). my town is about 15,000 people and seems pretty well equiped. there is a souq (market) daily and even a women's only souq two days per week. there seems to be a lot of other ammenities. it is a very touristy place (from what i have heard) so that will definitely provide an interesting experience. i leave monday to do a week-long site visit during which i will stay with a second host family. there are 6 children under the age of 13 (should be exciting, to say the least). another volunteer and i will be escorted tomorrow to our sites and then will spend the week finding out information about the town, clinic, etc.
funny story of the week:
so, even though it's been about 80 degrees at site, i've been wearing long sleeves and long pants (hard to get used to at first, but it's been getting easier...i have just come to the realization that i will sweat a lot and not shower much at all and it will be just fine). but that is not the funny part of the story. so we are all sweating through our one layers and the people in our town/host families are wearing 2-3 layers on both top and bottom. ashley's sister consistently has three shirts on. sydney's brothers always wear two pairs of pants on top of one another. the other night, my brothers came home from visitng some other family. they were wearing some new clothes...and i was teasing them a little about wearing a bunch of shirts. then my host mom started in and we figured out that my little 6 year old brother was wearing 5 shirts. yes, 5. even his grandma was cracking up and teasing him for having so many on. it's nice to be able to laugh with my family and have a good time. we have started to play card games before dinner at night. the favorite is "tajin," a game where the cards are in a big circle (a lot like a tajin) and you make pairs. i've been teaching the boys the names of the cards in english, sharing culture, woo! all in all, things are good here, i'm ready for the next part of the adventure.
i tried to add pictures, no dice. maybe next time!
Well, everyone, i have officially found out my site for the next two years. in the interest of my personal security/to keeep the creepers from knowing too much about me, I won't say the town exactly, but I am in Essauoria province. () It's definitely in a beach town. I'm very excited (as many of you know, i do love my beaches). my town is about 15,000 people and seems pretty well equiped. there is a souq (market) daily and even a women's only souq two days per week. there seems to be a lot of other ammenities. it is a very touristy place (from what i have heard) so that will definitely provide an interesting experience. i leave monday to do a week-long site visit during which i will stay with a second host family. there are 6 children under the age of 13 (should be exciting, to say the least). another volunteer and i will be escorted tomorrow to our sites and then will spend the week finding out information about the town, clinic, etc.
funny story of the week:
so, even though it's been about 80 degrees at site, i've been wearing long sleeves and long pants (hard to get used to at first, but it's been getting easier...i have just come to the realization that i will sweat a lot and not shower much at all and it will be just fine). but that is not the funny part of the story. so we are all sweating through our one layers and the people in our town/host families are wearing 2-3 layers on both top and bottom. ashley's sister consistently has three shirts on. sydney's brothers always wear two pairs of pants on top of one another. the other night, my brothers came home from visitng some other family. they were wearing some new clothes...and i was teasing them a little about wearing a bunch of shirts. then my host mom started in and we figured out that my little 6 year old brother was wearing 5 shirts. yes, 5. even his grandma was cracking up and teasing him for having so many on. it's nice to be able to laugh with my family and have a good time. we have started to play card games before dinner at night. the favorite is "tajin," a game where the cards are in a big circle (a lot like a tajin) and you make pairs. i've been teaching the boys the names of the cards in english, sharing culture, woo! all in all, things are good here, i'm ready for the next part of the adventure.
i tried to add pictures, no dice. maybe next time!
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