Thursday, December 29, 2011

The View

Here is the view from my desk at my new place. For a Kansas kid, it'll be something having a mountain to always look at now. 

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My New Address

The following is the best way to get in touch with me by either letter or package, if you feel like being old fashioned:

David Maddox
20 Rue De La Resistance Appt N 13
65800 Taourirt
Maroc

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Just a little update.

Well hello to all of my tens of readers! I am in the process of moving into my new apartment, my own little private sanctuary for the next two years. This got me thinking; this will be the first I have lived on my own in my life, never mind the fact that I'm living on another continent while it happens. In the last four weeks, I had only seen one American besides myself, and this only happened for one day. I must apologize for not writing on this blog more often. To be honest, usually the reasons vary but could be explained as such: I don't have access to the internet very often, boredom, I finally have a good conversation in Darija and am too excited to do anything else but gloat to myself, more boredom, I am also writing a personal journal which is lucky enough to receive my true thoughts and feelings (haha sorry but you wouldn't want to know half of those thoughts), I'm finishing reading another book (just finished my 15th book since being here), and more boredom. So after the next time passes where it seems I'm not writing in my blog very often, choose one of the above options, write your choice on a piece of paper and if you are correct I will possibly send you a gift in the next one month-ten years, depending on my level of motivation.
One quick story of a sense of accomplishment from the last couple weeks here:
I was asked by an english teacher at a local high school to come and see the school in the morning. I was under the impression that I would be possibly meeting teachers and the principal as I have done at several schools already in my town. However after arriving I soon discovered it was not to be, instead I followed him to his classroom where he started writing my name on the board. Under "Meeting David" he wrote "Education, Society, Health in the U.S.A." and asked me if I could talk to his classes about these things? This was asked right as the class soon filled with students. I owned that moment, and in the rawest moment of teaching I talked for two hours to back to back classes about these things in our culture in America. I answered many questions and talked from things ranging from homelessness, drugs and guns in the U.S. to why obesity is so high as well. I have never taken any education classes before or classes on how to really teach but I must say in all humbleness, I totally rocked those classrooms.