Common Sites of CBT

This is the Youth Center where we spent time teaching English and doing activities with some of the youth. Unfortunately, the snow was also a common site.

This is us in the snow. The building of a legendary snowman and an epic snow ball fight followed the taking of this picture.

Matthew often pretended to be Gandalf throughout CBT. He never did find a good staff though.

Our teacher thought it would be a good idea to draw a family tree to teach us family terms. She made the mistake of giving us the naming task. As you can see, this family turned out to be quite an eclectic bunch. They soon became a strange addition to our CBT family and were often mentioned in class and in jokes.

This small snack shop was far from Latino food, but no less delicious. Its owner, Mohamed, had culinary training and made the best chicken sandwiches, smoothies, mushroom sauce turkey breasts, and chocolate lave cakes you have ever tasted.

I put this picture in the album not because it was a common site, but because it was a rare site. Most cities in Morocco have many donkeys. This unfortunately was the ONLY donkey in our training site.

Tupac the Encouraging Llama became another CBT companion of ours.

Here is Matthew trying to keep warm in his jellaba and blanket.

Here is our wonderful teacher Hind, always close by to the heater.

Here is Joseph, 3rd time Peace Corps Volunteer and a wealth of experience and knowledge.

Here are Katie and Lisa, two of the most encouraging and cheerful people you will meet.

Here is Santiago. He was full of energy and could often be found bundled up in his sleeping bag during class.

This is the street we lived on. The strange things we put on our classroom walls make a little more sense after seeing this depressing picture.