Third Goal » 605BAD http://www.thirdgoal.com Peace Corps Stories and Photos Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:47:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Morocco Bound http://www.thirdgoal.com/605bad/2008/12/30/morocco-bound/ http://www.thirdgoal.com/605bad/2008/12/30/morocco-bound/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:34:58 +0000 605BAD http://www.thirdgoal.com/?p=491 Hey there Peace Corps folks. I, like many I’ve noticed on this site, am a new recruit. My mission is set in Morocco as a health worker and is set to ship out March 3rd, 2008. Just recently I began to realize that in a couple more months I will no longer be working as a lab technician for Valspar paints but will be in some foreign land with little knowledge of the language or what I’m doing there. This reality is really setting me on edge. How am I going to possibly educate a people who’s language I can barely speak? I have a B.A. in Biology and can do PCR and Southern blotting like you wouldn’t believe, but aside from that my skills in the immediate health field are slim to none! I would love to know what past Moroccan volunteers have done to prepare for their service and what challenges past health workers have worked with and what they did to meet those challenges.

I’m trying to get a hold of a professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who teaches arabic to see if he has any connections with Moroccans here in the states. If I could hang out with and get to know any that would be invaluable. Any information before getting over there will be a life saver (what do people do for fun? what is the age group in rural areas, mostly 15-30? How do Berber people differ from Arabs if at all? etc.). Either way, I’m just going to keep studying Arabic and hopefully learn some things about Muslim belief and culture. But anything guys…ANYTHING…would be swell. By the way, are there any other people heading to Morocco with me. Where my peeps at?

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