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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: October 2009
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 30 October, 2009. 19 October, 2009. International Hand Washing Day. You might be thinking, "But isn't it awkward to go up to a bunch of strangers and try to teach grown men how to wash their hands"? The friendly blue sea of taxis sparkling in the morning sun was enough to renew my faith in the "grand" taxi experience, which had been severely tested the previous day upon trying to arrive in Agadir.
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: Vacation in Morocco
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 07 July, 2010. Having visited most of our favorite community members- except for our host-family who were regrettably out of town – it was time to leave site again, and make our way to the world-famous “Gnawa Music Fest” in Essaouira! Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (currently reading). Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (currently reading). Reading Lolita in Tehran: A...
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: March 2009
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 26 March, 2009. Our trip to the next town. I’m not being facetious. We were seeing this town through the eyes or our local host country sisters, and they were seeing it through our eyes. Suddenly this town really was full of intrigue and wonder. I like the Moroccan circus. 22 March, 2009. Nkshrt irbbi, mamnk a tgit? So now we have to get back home. Where was the taxi stand again? 15 March, 2009.
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: April 2009
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 29 April, 2009. Don't Send Me Stuff. Hi everybody. Just a note; since I'm heading to my new site, I will have a new address and the Peace Corps will no longer accept packages for me. Don't send anything until I get my new address and give it to you. The US Ambassador in Morocco Made Me Swear. 8220;, I’m not so sure they were as convinced of our language abilities as the testers were. The other da...
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: September 2009
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 29 September, 2009. Ishqqa welakin iHla yak? Difficult but good right? If you are fasting, the result is a second, much more fervent, handshake. It has been explained to me that if two people are fasting, then their handshake will come directly from their hearts, where as it is otherwise derived from their pinky fingers. This is then followed up with the inquiry "iHla Ramadan nghd oho? Moroccan H...
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: January 2009
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 11 January, 2009. Welcome to my Morocco Blog. Apologies to those of you who recently observed a very similar post on Amber's newly christened blog. In the future, our respective blogs should be different enough to warrant their dual existence.). As many of you know, Amber and I are scheduled to arrive in Morocco on March 4th, the day after Moroccan King's Day! Sean Shiel, Trainee. The Government ...
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: January 2010
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 25 January, 2010. We took the scenic route through the fields, and stopped first at an attractive area with a patch of grass, a flowing brook, and grove of Aspen trees. From there, we walked down the riverbed until we were standing just below the kasbah; its massive mud walls soaring overhead. This is when our Moroccan friend floored us with the historical significance of the structure. I believe...
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: April 2010
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 08 April, 2010. Revelations at Spring Camp. Technological Advancement in Barbarism. This story starts out a bit like a fairytale, but I assure you its not! The answer, he said, was absolutely not. He said you could leave a stack of money unattended on a patio table at a coffee shop all day, come back that night, and it would still be there! Barbershop Cultural Exchange Part II. We whizzed by this...
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Sean Shiel in Morocco.: August 2009
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Sean Shiel in Morocco. Echoes from a distant land. Check out my food blog! Click here: "Cooking in the Bled". 22 August, 2009. The Bountiful and the Hungry (Ramadan Begins). I guess not everything is local). But the crown and jewel of my recent gastronomic endeavors is soda! 16 August, 2009. And we haven't been just seeing historic sites from the comfort of a hotel room. We are living in the bled of Morocco. We are in fact so steeped in Moroccan culture that we must at times endure the prejudices...The U...