So i am on the road with my friend Seth.. crossing parts of Morocco with moments of pleasure .. we have met great people everywhere… on the road in the riads… I get to speak French,Spanish and my 34 worlds of Arabic . but there are tooooooo many tourists.. Out of Africa Many people I know […]
Week 5 Limitations
Living in rural poverty , something most of us never experienced, is exhausting. Since most of the students in form 5 (3rd yr) at the high school failed the second term, I asked to interview several of the lowest performing in each class. Several had physical or emotional problems. A young Muslim girl confided she had […]
week 4: The Monotony of Poverty
To all of my readers. there are moments here when I know it was helpful for me to come here this year.. but it has been the most difficult for me..My neighbours living in that one tiny room have screaming babies, coughing toddlers with runny noses that they wipe with the kids’s clothing and less […]
Week 4 Frustration
Since his knee surgery six weeks ago, the principal of GBHS, the government high school in Fundong, has been immobilized. He was put in a plaster cast up to his thigh and down to his ankle for 2 months… Shocked at the lack of modern techniques, I explained this operation had not been performed […]