Library news!
Massaoud and I participated in a Peace Corps Library workshop in July after which we received three cartons of books n Arabic which the students are checkuing out. We expect another three cartons this month. Our classroom now has a library, computers and a ping pong table, equipment for which was donated by Charlotte Wilson. We call this classroom The Learning Center.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
2016
We now have 5 computers in our classroom as well as a projector, sound equipment and printer thanks to a Peace Corps grant.
.Sirat Bashir, a Peace Corps volunteer has joined our team (Massaoud Saleh and me) Sirat has brilliant ideas just as I have run out of them: she showed Hotel Rwanda to our students in the context of our unit on the source of violence and conflict resolution as explicated by Rene Girard. We discussed scapegoating and mimesis. Then we divided the class into Tutsi and Hutu groups; By the end of class last night everyone was Rwandan. I told them what the king of Morocco had done when the German invaded in World Waer 2. When the Germans demanded that he turn the Jews over to them, the king said "We have no Jews,we are all Moroccans"
We have a community based association leading the CLIMB program now with 60 students signed up for weekly hikes, montthly climbs and the ascent of Mt. Toubcal in July, In shallah.
Five girls will be ging to GLOW camp in January-February.Inshallah.
We will participate in Write On's international contest.
Sirat and I are planning our roof gardens with the help of our friend Rachida.
2016 looks busy!
We now have 5 computers in our classroom as well as a projector, sound equipment and printer thanks to a Peace Corps grant.
.Sirat Bashir, a Peace Corps volunteer has joined our team (Massaoud Saleh and me) Sirat has brilliant ideas just as I have run out of them: she showed Hotel Rwanda to our students in the context of our unit on the source of violence and conflict resolution as explicated by Rene Girard. We discussed scapegoating and mimesis. Then we divided the class into Tutsi and Hutu groups; By the end of class last night everyone was Rwandan. I told them what the king of Morocco had done when the German invaded in World Waer 2. When the Germans demanded that he turn the Jews over to them, the king said "We have no Jews,we are all Moroccans"
We have a community based association leading the CLIMB program now with 60 students signed up for weekly hikes, montthly climbs and the ascent of Mt. Toubcal in July, In shallah.
Five girls will be ging to GLOW camp in January-February.Inshallah.
We will participate in Write On's international contest.
Sirat and I are planning our roof gardens with the help of our friend Rachida.
2016 looks busy!
Today is the anniversary of our arrival in Morocco. A year has not given me fluency in Arabic but I am really good at mime by now. The new year was celebrated in Meknes with my daughter Jennifer and granddaughter Sarah; After the camel ride in Marrakech! And after we visited Jardin Majorelle
This is one of the most beautiful places in Marrakech. The camel ride of one hour in a palm tree oasis was peaceful,, we were led by a Berber camel driver/ .
This is one of the most beautiful places in Marrakech. The camel ride of one hour in a palm tree oasis was peaceful,, we were led by a Berber camel driver/ .
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