It’s been a pretty busy week. We just got back from our trip to the Sahara Desert! It was awesome! We rode camels for about an hour out into the desert to get to camp and we slept out under the stars. I was surprised that I didn’t get too sunburned. The sand dunes were way taller than I was expecting.
We also made stops to see monkeys, we talked to a random shepherd in the Atlas Mountains and looked at his sheep, and on the way back we went to Ifran which is supposed to be the Switzerland of Morocco.
We got to go to a refugee center after school one day this week and we practiced English with the refugees there. The refugees me and another girl in my class named Hanan talked to were from Mali. They were super nice and it was really fun to help out in their class. They are going to school in Rabat and when I asked what they wanted to do when they got out of school, one said he wanted to be the foreign minister of Mali and the other said he wanted to be the president.
It’s funny how tailored our Arabic skills are for the foreign service. The third vocabulary word we learned was United Nations. After school one day they asked us to get in groups and write a story in Arabic. Our group wrote about a hungry dog named Bob who goes to the store to buy food. Bob the hungry dog also happens to work for the United Nations and is a translator specializing in the Middle East.
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