The first week is coming to a close

Friday Evening... where was I last Friday night, all I am going to say was that I had a great night. Now I am sitting in the "conference room" in a Moroccan hotel charging my computer and wondering how the world got so small yet we are all so different. I can email and talk to my friends and family at a moments notice and yet I am living in a country that is very different from the one I was born and raised in. The Moroccan people I have met are a wonderful, friendly people, who have are both funny and serious at the same time, I think it is their reserved nature that makes them appear serious but the few I have engaged are funny, warm and hard working.

Once again I was stuck with a few needles, sat through my medical evaluation, a language class, more doctor (nurse) presentations on how to stay health and the rules of the Peace Corp, then onto another security and safety lecture (yesterday's lecture from the head of security of the Embassy was outstanding if not a little scary for the women in the group). Finally we meet with a group of current volenteers and heard about everything from the "Grand" Taxi and other forms of transportation to the using of one left hand versus the "pink" toilet paper... all of it infromative and very funny.

After a full day I walked down to the beach did a quick sketch and jotted down some thoughts running through my head

Tomorrow we finish you in the town, do a little shopping and then we head out Sunday to our hub-sites and from there to our community-based sites (staying in someones home for 11 weeks). I am an independent sort of person and will have to change my ways a little or a lot to adjust to being a guest in some ones home for the next 2 plus months.

I ahve broken down my luggage once again to one bag of things I will not need for at least the next month or more, another bag that I will pull things out of as the weather changes and finally my backpack which I will live out of from week to week. Form this point forward I will be very busy and not sure how I will keep the blog up-to-date... but in"shalla will do so.