Amber I found out where we will be serving for the next two years! Drum roll please…..We will be serving in the province of Ouarzazate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazat) known as the gateway to the Sahara and the pearl of the Moroccan Desert. It is located at the southern base of the High Atlas Mountains and is often considered the Hollywood of Morocco because of the many movies that are filmed in the region, among these are “Gladiator” and “Lawrence of Arabia”. If you’ve seen these movies, you should have some idea of the type and variety of scenery we will be encountering. I've been told by locals ere that our site will be rich with ishdign d tiyani (flowers and dates). Also, according to the guidebooks, we are very near to a plethora of magnificant casbahs, hiking trails and mountain biking (Peace Corps provides very nice bikes). Our site is not too far from the large metropolis of Ouarzazate and it is likely that we will go there often for internet and shopping as well as meeting with other volunteers. The other three volunteers from "Tarabut Hussein" have been placed in the province of Tisnit very near the ocean and just south of Agadir. We will miss them dearly in Ouarzazat, but ensha' allah, we will enjoy visiting them and surfing on the beaches near Tiznit. Meanwhile, we have just finished a language compitancy test and have only one more day of official language training. We still have this weekend in our current sites and then a few days for swearing in, but we should be headed to our new sites in less than two weeks! Can’t wait to let you know more when we get there!
P.S. If you happen to be a friend or relative who works in the film industry, you should consider working on movies filming in my area.
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