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On Monday I wanted to go to a Hammam. It's a public bath house with a specific ritual. I'd read up on it & got the name of one f...

Monday was my last full day in Morocco. Mohammed, the Country Manager for CCS, arranged a taxi to take me from the Home Base to Hotel Balima...

Sighting the waves the day before, one of the volunteers (Carrie) wanted to check out the surfing scene in Rabat on Sunday. She had actually...

Friday was spent in Fez, and Saturday was a day trip to Casablanca. I'd heard mixed reviews of the city: it was on the water (so is Rab...

Got up early this morning to head to Fez (Fes) with 6 other girls from the volunteer group. We got to the train station just in time for the...

After our volunteer time on Thursday, we had cooking lessons back at the house. Aisha & Fatima are the two cooks and they make some grea...

I woke up this morning with a bit of a stomach issue. I mentioned it to the country program manager and the driver in case we needed to make...

After dinner on Wednesday, 7 of us headed to the Medina for round 2 of shopping. This presented a bit of a challenge because public transpor...

Years ago I read an English translation of the Qur'an, but today we learned a bit about Islam and it was good to hear it again in light ...