• I guess our big news is being moved into our apartment. It’s a weird feeling after spending the past 5 months in hotels and with families. Now we’re cooking, cleaning and have freedom to do what we want when we want. The past five months have been good and we love our host family, but there’s a freedom now that I haven’t felt for a while and it feels good. We working on furnishings and finding hiding spots for all of our stuff because we don’t really have much of a ‘storage’ area. Although our apartment now is bigger than DC and we have less stuff so it shouldn’t be an issue. We spent the weekend in another volunteer’s site with 5 other volunteers. We had pizza, lasagna, brownies, cake…it was amazing (oh and we had fun hanging out with friends too!) We slept on the roof last night under the stars. Because of the lower pollution and less light at night the stars are really visable and the milky way is clear.
  Unfortunately, the midwives are on vacation today and the women that came, not knowing, weren’t able to get vaccinations for their babies. It also means that I don’t have a lot to do today. Although, I’m contemplating trying to make flour tortillas…oh, the things you take for granted in the US!
  There’s a latrine/cistern project in a school about 30 kms away about to get started, so we’ll try to go and help out with that later this week. These are pictures from Essaouira.