Friends, family, people who found this blog through PCJ,
I apologize for taking so long to write my first post. When I started this blog I had high ambitions that blogging would be a daily (or near daily) activity so that all of you back in the states could follow along on this journey in excruciating detail. But after the first day I discovered that one of the last things I wanted to do after 10 hours of orientation was to write a blog post about my day. Anyhoo, here's the abridged version of the last 6 days -
I left the 'Nati on Monday to head to Philly for a brief orientation before we left. On Tuesday night after spending way more hours than necessary at JFK we flew out to Casablanca. (Note - Doesn't knowing that there are direct flights from the U.S. to Morocco make you want to visit me more?) So we got to Casablanca on Wednesday morning, then took a bus to Mehdia (hey, isn't it hilarious that the town's name is 6/10 of my last name?)
Since then we've just been doing a lot of orientation type things. I could tell you all about it but most of it probably wouldn't be very interesting to any of you. (Unless any of you want to know more about the proper way to wipe after using a Turkish toilet, because we spent a whole lot of time talking about that....)
So tomorrow I head out to my CBT site. I'll be living with a Moroccan family there for the next 10 weeks, and I'm not sure what my Internet situation will be. Which brings me to the real reason I wrote this post.....
I have a cell phone now! It's insanely expensive for me to call you but only 12 c/minute for you to call me if you use Google voice. (I think it's 19 with Skype.) My number is on Facebook, and you should all call me. (Remember that Morocco's 4 hours ahead of Eastern time....) My arms still hurt from all the shots (meningitis, rabies, and typhoid), so that's gonna have to be the end of this post. Maybe I'll try to be all savvy in my next post and include pictures and stuff.
