New Movie!!

Of course the movie doesn't do my village justice, but it gives you a sense of my surroundings. Hope you like it! The video is of a few volunteers and I walking through the fields with some of our family members. Usually I go at dusk with my friend Abdelrafour and he teaches me new words while I teach him English. I had a cheeseburger and coke last night which was delicious even though it wasn't really a cheesburger as we know it in the U.S. More like beef patties in Moroccan bread. It's funny because I keep finding myself wanting to go back to my village and family and forget about the big city life and the normalcy of hanging out with other Americans. My family is in the process of building a new house and I helped put in a door frame, which basically consisted of us taking a pickax to the mud wall and making our own plaster and slopping it in around the frame. It was probably one of the coolest moments thus far and I want to go back and help some more. I also helped plow a field the other day with my uncle and brother. Who cares about Power Point presentations and administrative stuff-- I want to be back out there actually doing work and enjoying myself. I want to walk through the fields and pick fresh fruit, sit at a table and drink mint tea until I go into a diabetic shock, and eat amazing food and laugh with my host family at our funny ways in trying to communicate. Can you tell I really like my CBT site? The only cool part about being back in Oz is being able to communicate with all of you via the internet. I have a cell phone over here but it will cost you 50cents/min or possibly higher to talk to me and I can only take phone calls from 5PM-10PM my time or 1-6PM your time. If you want my number shoot me an E-mail :)