From the mountaintop

This week we finished up a workshop where teachers learned how to teach environmental education. I won't take much credit, because it was really the work of the volunteers who were here already. We had some of my staj show up though, ate some really good food, and went on a hike with the teachers. The second morning a few of us hiked up the mountain at 4:30 in the morning to watch the sunrise. I really should watch the sun come up more often... it is a spiritual and glorious event.   Plus, I snapped some pretty great photos.

On a separate note, I have a quote that pretty much embodies the whole moroccan situation.
“They would follow us, if we endured with them, and played the game according to their rules. The pity was, that we often began to do so, and broke down with exasperation and threw them over, blaming them for what was a fault in our own selves. Such strictures like a general's complaint of bad troops, were in reality a confession of our own faulty foresight, often made falsely out of mock modesty to show that, though mistaken, we had at least the wit to know our fault”
-T.E. Lawrence,
Seven Pillars of Wisdom