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“Arabs treat their women terribly…women’s rights in Arab countries are just non-existent…I would hate to be a woman there.” I overheard the gentleman while on a layover at the Chicago O’Hare airport in November 2004. Immediately, my stomach tensed and my blood pressure began to rise. Had I been sitting next to the man a year before, I doubt I would have reacted so adversely. But this year, I was heading home for a vacation from my first year as a Volunteer in Morocco. I had lived and breath...
Roof Vineyard

My friend Rich's host father has grapes growing across the top of their roof and let me take his picture when I stopped in this past summer for a visit. The vines snake down the front of the house and must be decades old.
Ramadan with the host family

Spending Ramadan with my fantastic homestay family
Boy and Chicken

favorite neighbor boy holding his chicken
Middle of nowhere lesson

Teaching nomadic women about family planning
Eid al-Adha

Joy on the morning of Eid al-Adha
Who's in Charge Here?

I knew it was coming. Adam text messaged me on Wednesday to let me know that he would be coming in early Friday to start his Carte de Sejour process of with the Gendarmes of Goulmima. I had agreed to help. For people with more normal jobs being up-and-at-‘em at 8:00 am is no problem, but I grumbled when my phone vibrated four times and beeped at that (un)reasonable hour. “In town. meet at gendarmes?” read the text message. I tossed on a pair of shorts, t-shirt, baseball hat and show...
American Pizza Night!!!

It really only took one experience to hook my host family on American Pizza. In short order it became a weekly tradition. Here my host brother Nunu displays the goods.
The carnival comes to town but once.

A cool shot from the taxi stand in Goulmima, Morocco. A typical everyday scene but for the carnival in the background, which really makes the white pop out.
Where To?

My host brother is running out of territory, yet presses on.

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