It has been a while since I last wrote something on this page. There are a few reasons for that, but the biggest one is that nothing is happening. In August I did nothing, except for 10 days straight of full-time camp. Responsibilities included teaching English in the morning, making sure kids didn't drown, and keeping an eye on thieves at the beach. Krista and I did camp in El Jadida, which is just south of Casablanca. It was nice to be somewhere with a breeze off the ocean, and it was nice to work in a camp that had some sort of organization.
And there was only one kid who got hit hard by the camp director- Bonus! If there were any kids he should have been hitting it was his own. This guy's four year old sun decided to pee on the ground right in front of the door to our bungalow. But other than that, it was a good camp. Beforehand, the Ministry of Youth and Sports attempted to steal scholarship money for sending a couple of our town's girls to the camp, but they failed and the girls had a great time.
Most of the last week has been consumed by boredom/filling out graduate school applications. In a little preview of future tuition, I'm shelling out cash left and right just to email the places my papers.
And then my friend/former student/former Arabic tutor told us she's getting married. We went to the wedding last night. They cooked 70+ chickens, and blasted local music all night. We were literally the first to leave, at 5 in the morning, just as the first call to prayer of the day sounded.
Here are some wedding pictures- keep in mind that no alcohol was involved.
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| the bride |
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| the woman on the right was featured in a previous post- "an old berber Henna" - sweet lady |
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| 1:30, time to start the party |
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| krista and the mother of the bride dancing |
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| white batmen |
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| lets have the bride sit in this little bowl and then carry her around |
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| ...and shine bright lights in her face so the video turns out well |
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| 3:00 am |
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| photos of the couple |
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| outfits #2 |
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| hey |
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| 4:00- things are really getting started. fairly consistent gender separation |
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| traditional music matched with lazerlightshow |
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| outfit #3 |
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enough already - 4:45 am. I left, it probably went until 7. then moved to another town to continue
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You forgot to mention that the bride (our tutor) was also the happiest bride we've seen here! She's in her mid 20s, and she was getting married to a man her own age that she met in college and had a major crush on for years-- all of which is very unusual in this culture! She looked so excited, and hopefully she still will have a shot at teaching English in her new home.
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Awesome snapshot thanks for the update Mike
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