Chasing Waterfalls

Wow, it feels like its been forever since i last updated this blog and i have so much to tell.

leaving our community based training site and my uber-generous host family there was hard, but i knew it was coming. i was very excited, it made my day, actually, when my host parents called me the other night just to make sure i was ok. they are very sweet and i cant wait to visit them again sometime - perhaps sometime when i can say more than 'how are you? is everything fine?' to them. ha ha.

morocco has gotten allot - and i mean allot - of rain lately. roads are getting washed out all over the country. anway, its been cold and rainy at our training center too.

on halloween we all found out our site assignments. i am assigned to a small town about 2.5 hours to the east of marrakech (or however you spell it). its about an hour away from a bigger city. its a small community with mountains, heat in the summer and cold in the winter, a good sized body of water.... wow. its awesome. im here now for 'site visit' which will last 6 days. my new host family is fantastic and they have hosted at least 2 other volunteers.

this community has not had a peace corps volunteer in almost a year. the volunteer last assigned here left before he completed his two years of service.

im excited to be assigned here. im sure im going to enjoy being a peace corps volunteer here.

I think its interesting the dream i had about the waterfall and site assignemnts. there is water nearby and if people could see my site im pretty sure they'd be jealous. there are many opportunities for mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing and even river rafting. i have it good. it also seems that living within the allowances peace corps gives us will be feasable living in a place like this.

its been raining for most of the 24 hours ive been on site visit. like i said before, we've gotten plenty of rain lately and im pretty tired of it. oh well, it will pass... in a few months.

in the mountains towering over this little community there is a good dusting of snow already. im not too sure but i think the snow usually does not come down into town.

this morning i went with my new host father to the police station to let them know im here and introduce myself. it was interesting how everything turned out, but they were helpful and nice. as volunteers the local police authorities are pretty concerned about where we are - they want us to be safe and not have any problems. from what i hear the last volunteer told the police whenever he was leaving town and when he expected to be back.

anway, ill post pictures sometime, but im not sure when.

i should be getting a post office box tomorrow (so if you want my address and/or want to send me packages) let me know and ill send you the address once i get it.