Moroccan Adventures: Week 2 Complete!!

Day 9, June 9
Monday, we started our 2nd full week at Placement, and we're finally settling into our routine. I have averaged about 10-17 students each day and feel we are really making progress. That class was probably the most exciting one so far as we started putting sentences together and was able to keep everyone on task with the varied levels of students. I still have some that are working on basic words while others that are putting full sentences and paragraphs together. That afternoon's class at the home base was Introduction to Islam which was very interesting. That evening some of us went to the Oudaya (ocean area) and watched the sun go down into the Atlantic Ocean.

June 10
Tuesday, after placement we went right to the train station and took an hour train ride to Casablanca (Casa Port). We then took a taxi to the Mosque Hassann II which the only mosque in Morocco that is open to the public for tours. We grabbed the 3:00 tour and gathered some amazing pictures. More information is included with the pictures on the last blog.

June 11
Wednesday, after placement we all took a tour of the Chellah Ruins which is in Rabat. The ruins were inhabited from both the Muslims and Romans started in 1316 AD. More information is included with the pictures.

June 12
Thursday, we had another cooking class where Khadija taught us how to make a breakfast pastry commonly made here. Their dough is a combination of wheat flour, bread flour, baking soda and 2.5 glasses of water. They measure their amounts by glass cups and spoon fulls. That evening we just hung out at the home base as about 10 of the volunteers were flying home on Saturday, and we were leaving Friday for Chefchaouen.

Pictures from Chellah Ruins

Fertility Pond where women would go to wash and pray to get pregnant. There were eels that one of the people threw egg whites at to get them to come out of the cave areas.