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Emily & Jon in Morocco: March 2009
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Fes and the South. The past couple of weeks have been full of traveling for us. We went to Fes during one weekend, and we spent about 9 days seeing Erfoud, Merzouga, Tinjdad, Tinhrir, and back north through Rich and Azrou. We'll start with our trip to Fes, and then talk about our trip down south. Get out of the way! And merchants trying to get your attention. Of course, the...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: A Paper Making Tale...
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Saturday, June 5, 2010. A Paper Making Tale. This is a story (a very long one) about how I came to work with handmade paper and the women of the Al-Falah Women's Cooperative. It's a meandering tale of a Peace Corps project that started a year and a half ago and which in many ways is only just beginning. It's a story with many twists and turns (and pictures! At that time I had just sworn in as a vol...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: April 2009
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. How I love souq day. Every Tuesday, I have a re-confirmation of my undying love for all that is souq day. For those who don't know, souq is the weekly market that many Moroccan towns host. My fervor is such today that I have to get it all out while it is still fresh in my mind (and under my fingernails). Today's occurrences at souq:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Emily, 28, f...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: September 2010
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Monday, September 27, 2010. A couple of hours ago Jon announced that he was in need of some comfort food and suggested that we make chocolate chip cookies with the M&Ms my Uncle Bob and Aunt Sandy sent us a short while ago (all the way from Alaska! Chocolate Chip (or M&M) Cookie Recipe. 2 1/4 cups flour. 1 t vanilla extract. 2 cups chocolate chips or M&Ms (we used 1 cup and it was plenty! You will ...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: A Crochet Tale...
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Monday, March 21, 2011. Please note that this post. Was originally published on my new blog, zween. To read more about what I've been up to since finishing Peace Corps, please visit me there. You may want to read this post. On my new blog, as the right side of my photos were cut off when I transferred the post to this blog. Enjoy! This is a story about how crochet not only. The first few months wer...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: Starting The Next Chapter
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Saturday, November 20, 2010. Starting The Next Chapter. About one week ago, on November 12, 2010, Jon and I went from being PCVs (Peace Corps Volunteers) to RPCVs (Returned Peace Corps Volunteers). The following are some photos from that day. Our Small Business Development group together for one last picture. Our community based training group. Yesterday Jon and I left Morocco and are now doing som...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: June 2010
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Friday, June 25, 2010. Yesterday when I arrived at the artisana the girls where preparing a bunch of henna. I asked what the occasion was, but Fatima simply told me that the girls just felt like doing it. That's one thing that I enjoy about my job here.I never really know what's going to happen on any given day. I love all the delicate line weight that she was able to achieve! Jennifer's been pod c...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: July 2009
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Friday, July 3, 2009. The Trials and Tribulations of Script. For the most part, Darija is not a written language anyway. That's not to say that written and even printed Darija is nonexistent, it's just rare. When people write in script, they write in Fusha, which is basically a whole other language. Strike three. Who needs to learn how to read a language that isn't written? The next day, returning ...
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Emily & Jon in Morocco: February 2010
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Emily and Jon in Morocco. A Place Where Friends and Family Can Better Understand Our Experience in Morocco. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. I've recently been informed that the link to my art blog was not linking correctly, so I've made the changes. Blogger's server is being a bit slow right now, so it hasn't updated the changes I made, but hopefully will sometime within the year! For all of those whose clicking on that link has come up fruitless, here is the link for your convenience:. Other than the kif sa...