It's studying time

I hate to admit but this is the most I've studied in years for any subject. Hours have been spent on learning Moroccan Arabic, or Derija, and it's mentally exhausting but it's rewarding being able to start talking with people in the community. (Sorry biology or chemistry majors who would laugh manically at my mere hours of studying and saying that's exhausting, but this is coming from a psych and poli sci major.) We have been doing a couple hours of studying and language training in the mornings and then the afternoons have been mostly cultural lectures and time to spend with the language trainers and other volunteers to study more. Today is our first day off and I'm getting ready to head out with some friends to Old Fes and see some of the sites of the ancient city. Towards the end of next week we will be leaving Fes and going to smaller communities to live with our host families to do more immersed cultural and language training for a couple months before we will receive the information on our permanent site. In that site that I'm travelling to in November will be where I find out the dar chabab (youth center) that I will be working at for the two years then. More to come soon! Peace.