So, my tutor here, Driss Laayadi, has become a good friend and confidant, and earlier today, he and I held a “workshop” at the high school with over sixty students, five Americans (including me), and two English teachers. It was a huge, huge success, so I thought I would write up a little bit about […]
Category: Peace Corps
Remembering.
A year ago today, my grandfather died. A year ago, everything sort of set in motion, and if you’d told me then that I’d be here, in Morocco, where my grandfather lived for nineteen months, well, I wouldn’t have believed that. But as it were, next Tuesday, I will have lived in this country for […]
Morocco Reforms.
This article made national headlines even in America today. Just wanted to share. Avery and I were sitting eating a delicious tajine (and I bought a tajine plate earlier today so I can cook my own) at the restaurant when they interrupted a “regularly scheduled broadcast” to show Mohammed VI standing with his son and, […]
Education is Power
When I was attending Wabash College several years ago, there was a visiting professor in Political Science named John Agresto who actually left the college in 2003 after receiving a call from President Bush asking that he come to Iraq to serve as the “Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Education.” Agresto left America a staunch […]
Post-Pre Service Training, or everything I needed to know to execute a cool project
It’s been kind of a long, tough week. Actually, that’s an understatement. Let me back up. Everybody knows my love for Wabash. My undergrad was kind of a tight-nit community, a bubble of sorts. We called it “Camp Wabash” as a joke because it felt more like summer-camp than it did like college. So, naturally, if you’re […]
The Adventure of the Buta Gaz Tank that Set on Fire
How’s that for a title, eh? First, I write this for any volunteers in-country or out-of-country using buta tanks; learn from my almost deathly mistake. Actually, I’m probably exaggerating a tiny bit. I don’t think I was ever at risk of dying, as I hear there’s supposedly an emergency shut-off valve inside every tank (which works, what, […]
Some thoughts on a rainy afternoon on a train from Oujda
It’s not very often that I get to just write out the mundane things, but the mundane things are sometimes the best memories I want to hold onto, just for me. I’m sitting on a train in Oujda waiting to leave, and there’s pellets of rain slapping the windshield pretty viciously. Thought I’d kill some […]
Dar Yanayer dyal Fouad, the January House
So, you’ve seen (per the last post) the “moving van.” I thought I’d share a bit about what happened on move-in day and then a short video of what my new pad looks like all finished and furnished. I got pretty worried that I wasn’t going to be able to move in on “move-in day,” […]
“Movin’ on up…”
I’ll keep this short. I want to get my house a little cleaner and more organized before I share videos and pictures, but I thought I would at least share this little gem, my “moving truck,” as I moved into my own house yesterday. Anyway, that’s everything – all the stuff I currently own in […]
What I do (in a nutshell)
I’ve had a few people ask me now, “So, besides having the time of your life over there, what is it that you actually do?” The technical answer is that I recently began teaching English classes, and much of my time here will be spent doing just that, but teaching English doesn’t begin to encompass […]
