Come with us as we travel to Morocco with the Peace Corps to learn more about each other, ourselves, and what we'd like to be when we grow up.
A little time to sleep in.
Its been a hectic two weeks of preparation and a final whirlwind goodbye tour of friends and family members culminating in a 3:00 wakeup on Saturday to catch our flight to Philadelphia. By Saturday evening we were exhausted to say the least. Listening and actually trying to absorb what is important in addition to making small talk with 50 other people wore me OUT! So for dinner on Saturday at 8:00 pm we finally went to an Indian restaurant that is just down the street from where we are staying. Sunday was another full day of training but after a good night's sleep the time didn't seem to drag on as much and we were out of there in no time.
Probably the most important part of training for myself was finding out that Jana and I will be staying together with a host family during our training and throughout the entire process. We found out that we will fly into Casa, spend 3 days in Rabat, then be shipped off on another 3.5 hour bus ride to our seminar site. Much better than the Environmental people's 7.5 hr bus ride.
We'll spend about a week in our seminar site with intensive language studies, and then we are split again into groups of 5 or so and sent to our training community where we have set goals and objectives that are supposed to help us understand what exactly we will be doing. Only then will we know which language we will be expected to know.
So today we finally get to relax a little. We slept in and don't have to check out till 11. We fly out from JFK at 6:40 tonight and have a 7 hr flight.
We've been told there are inexpensive internet cafes in Morocco, but it might take us a bit to find and use them -- but stay tuned!
Mike
posted by jana | 5:36 AM
4 Comments:
Thanks for the update. I imagine you have checked out and are ready for the bus ride to NY. Glad you were able to get some rest and we were able to talk last night. We will be praying for you as you get settled in your new life. Sounds like your learning curve will be a little steep but we are really glad you will be there for each other and not have to deal with things alone. Love, Dad and Mom H.
We were so happy to hear that you get to be together and will have each other to lean on with the day to day challenges of life in Morocco,language differences and adjusting to life in the Peace Corp. We'll be eagerly waiting for your next post and to hear that you arrived safely at your host home. We love and miss you both!
... so everyone knows guilt trips work on Mike (he called Sunday night) apparently I don't have enough to do - I am expecting photos of the plane trip or something by now (it is Tuesday... Enjoy a falafal for me
S & T
I'm so glad you get to live together! Jon kept asking me if you *really* had to not see each other for three months... He will feel much better knowing you can be together. ;) I'm glad you got to sleep in after a whole week of getting ready. You must have been exhausted!
Looking forward to inexpensive Moroccan internet cafes!!! :)
Jon, Chelsea, Livi, & Baby Ru
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