Our lettuce and carrot guy at the souq. 1 Durham gets you a LOT of lettuce (and it was just picked that day or the day before)!!!
Little boy picking onions at the souq.
Sean at the souq trying to convert Rihals (an old currency) into Durhams...
Chicks at the souq...tempting...but not this time...
Breakfast for visiting volunteers; Mom's cinnamon roll recipe (thanks for sending the brown sugar Mom!)
Sean and Em getting chewed out for NOT coming over for tea at these ladies' houses...next time, INSHALLAH! Or six months out (whichever way you want to look at it).
Perspective
Perspective defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
2 a : the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed; also
point of view
b : the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance; e.g. urge you to maintain your perspective and to view your own task in a larger framework — W. J. Cohen
3 a : a visible scene; especially
: one giving a distinctive impression of distance :
vista
b : a mental view or prospect; e.g. gain a broader perspective on the situation
Every step we take as we travel through life, literally and figuratively, we lay ground to our vision of the world. 99% of the time our vision of the world is based on our own experiences, even though our parents try and guide us based on the lessons and perspectives they have learned through life. We like to repeat things, you know, just to make sure. But every once in a while we see something, or hear something, or witness something that changes or enhances our perspective, even if we are not directly impacted by the situation or event. Well it is our job as Peace Corps volunteers to share with you our experiences here in Morocco so perhaps you as the readers can lay a little bit more ground to your vision of the world without having to sacrifice 2 years of your life back home in order to do it.
I want to share with you a powerful video that Em and I received from our country director. Then I will end this perspective craziness with an overly optimistic view of a Peace Corps that will always ring true in my life from here on out.
http://www.filantronomics.org/2009/10/i-dare-you-powerful-campaign-by-nike.html
Now before joining the Peace Corps I would have thought that you could only have two views after watching a video like that: a positive view, or a negative view. Here comes the joke:
There are people in this world that look at the glass half filled with water and think that it is half empty. There are some people that look at that glass and think that it is half full. A Peace Corps volunteer looks at the glass and thinks, "I could take shower with that half glass of water!"
Tune in next time for Moroccan Architecture
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