My CBT group, from left to right: Meagan, Naomi, Jeanie, Dan, Nicole, and Me!
Nicole and Jeanie pretend that it's prom.
Sities!
The new Errachidia Crew! Back Left: Melissa, Jeanie, Mark, Me, Zach In front: James and Jack
My guys, Dan and Samir
Me and my guys.
Me and Meagan
Naomi is really tall.
Silliness with Nicole.
The entire Health Stajj!!
Katea and I
That's me with David Lillie, our country director. He's a pretty cool guy.
Melissa and Cory (one of the two married couples in our stajj)
Me and Mark.
Saaaammmmmmiiiir!
James throws Cory around.
And then throws Mark around.
Home sweet home
The smaller building is the old sbitar, where I go to work every day. The larger one is the new sbitar, which will, inshallah, be opened by the King sometime in the near future! My house (not my host family's house, but mine!) is right behind the old sbitar
The new health sector PCVs, headed to a meeting with the Delegue in Errach.
Wheat fields in Outerbat.
Jeanie loves everyone.
I dressed the part of Merry Brandibuck. Jeanie insists that if we were a fellowship, she'd be Gimli.
Check out my Chaco tan.
I don't really have to worry about snakebites up here. This is as big as they get.
We have amazing storms in Bouzmou.
The Tam. word for rainbow is "Tislit n anzar" which translates to "Bride of the Rain."
My room! So pretty, bright, and cozy! I'm gonna miss it!
The fields behind my house
Mina, Hajja, and Soued
The girls
Mina
The neighbors are building a house. They were more than happy to let me photograph it.
The foundations of the house are wide, flat stones. Then they begin building the walls using a mixture of mud, water, and sometimes straw. The frame is built, filled, and pounded down, then dried.
The builders and kids.
This is what they use to compact the adobe
The dirt they are using is actually from the last house that stood on this site, which they spent about two weeks knocking down. Mix it up with water, and build it anew.
Rkiya, my host sister, and her friend Hannan
My water bottle and roses
Jeanie came to visit and we had a ton of fun goofing off in the fields with my sister Soued
Me, Jeanie, Soued
He's not my puppy. I swear I'm just keeping him until James can take him. He's not going to have to pry him out of my arms and I'm not going to sob for days when he's gone.
Ait Khrojman, where James lives in a palace that would house our entire stajj.
Mirim, Jeanie, and James.
Dan, Mark, Melissa, and Jay just bein' themselves.
Lake Tislit, up by Imilchil. Tislit means "bride." There is another slightly larger lake called Isli, which means groom.
My host father, MoHa, getting ready to start work in the family's fields at midsummer.
Rkiya working.
Wedding Festival tent!
Dan with his lovely beard and Jeanie
Jeanie teaches a lesson on waste disposal to a bunch of boys
Taryn, that guy, and Jeanie
Knitting in a tent while waiting for Tajines during wedding Fest.
Melissa and Nicole
The buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusss-stop!
Outerbat
Camels or flamingos?
The Sahawi nomads come up in the summer to graze, bringing their camels with them.
James and Mark in their new Jellabas!
James, Chris, Daniel, and Jeanie
Me, Dan, Naomi, Jeanie, Daniel, and Mark on a hike outside of Outerbat after wedding festival
This is one of my favorite spots around here- the row of trees outside of Outerbat.
Me and Mark on a hike outside of Tamagorte (that's his site)
Me, Nommmers, and Jeanie-Pants
This grasshopper was longer than my middle finger and scared the pants off of me on a hike I took recently. I tried to get something down next to it to show scale, but it jumped to the next mountain in one stunning bound before I could do anything about it.
Tamagorte
Naomi rockin' some awesome glasses
Sunset the other day from the roof of my house. Llah ijla la Baraka. I have been blessed by God.
