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!