March 5th, the day we leave to go to out host teachers communities scattered all around Morocco. The school I visit is about 20 km from the hotel in Rabat, my partner and I are staying in Rabat. While the rest of the cohort moves on to their new cities and towns for their adventures. There will be one other group staying in Rabat visiting their host teachers’ school.
The day started with a quick trip to an International Baccalaureate School in Rabat. Abi Dar Alghiffari Secondary School is one of 3 pilot schools in Morocco for the International Baccalaureate in English. The school teaches all subjects in English and students have to apply to get accepted into the program. We visited a classroom of an outgoing English teacher who teaches English with music to help his students learn English. The teacher teaches during the day and in the evenings he plays in a band. He was quite entertaining and his classes were very progressive and interactive. We also meet with teachers, principals and the parent association. Like most all of our visits we had mint tea and pastries. I’m going to have to run twice as much when I get back home from all the indulgence of pastries.
I very much enjoyed my school visit today! The students and staff were so welcoming. It is quite fun walking around on campus. Students were smiling and wanting to take their picture with me. I felt like a monkey at the zoo getting a lot of attention. I was able to observe a math class and learned a trick with my fingers to learn the unit circle.
I had a wonderful birthday dinner with Kelly one of my colleagues. We ventured off in the Medina to a restaurant called Le Ziryab. We walked through dark alleys to the restaurant it was a little spooky. We make it to the door down this really dark alley thank goodness there was another party walking to the restaurant. The big heavy wood door opened to this amazing space. There were three musicians playing Moroccan music as we were escorted to our table in this little open room. We ordered our meal it was absolutely amazing. The meal was served family style the first course had these little fried wrapped meats which resembled spring-rolls, and six colorful salads; pumpkin, bean, zucchini, spinach, eggplant and some type of tomato. The second course was the main course which consisted of two items couscous with stewed beef and vegetables and this chicken with some yummy sauce can’t remember the name of the dish. The last course was desert some pastry with this white not very sweet glaze it tasted a little like caramel corn, and of course pastries and mint tea. When our meal was finished, we went out the same big heavy wooden the host unlocks the giant lock and let us out. There was a very tall Moroccan man wearing a Djellaba, the traditional dress for men, he was carrying this large lantern and he escorted us out of the dark alleys of the Medina. As we were walking back to the hotel this giant black rat ran in front of us. Oh a rat! I said and I took off running the other way and Kelly was close behind me. I do not like rodents!
The day started with a quick trip to an International Baccalaureate School in Rabat. Abi Dar Alghiffari Secondary School is one of 3 pilot schools in Morocco for the International Baccalaureate in English. The school teaches all subjects in English and students have to apply to get accepted into the program. We visited a classroom of an outgoing English teacher who teaches English with music to help his students learn English. The teacher teaches during the day and in the evenings he plays in a band. He was quite entertaining and his classes were very progressive and interactive. We also meet with teachers, principals and the parent association. Like most all of our visits we had mint tea and pastries. I’m going to have to run twice as much when I get back home from all the indulgence of pastries.
I very much enjoyed my school visit today! The students and staff were so welcoming. It is quite fun walking around on campus. Students were smiling and wanting to take their picture with me. I felt like a monkey at the zoo getting a lot of attention. I was able to observe a math class and learned a trick with my fingers to learn the unit circle.
I had a wonderful birthday dinner with Kelly one of my colleagues. We ventured off in the Medina to a restaurant called Le Ziryab. We walked through dark alleys to the restaurant it was a little spooky. We make it to the door down this really dark alley thank goodness there was another party walking to the restaurant. The big heavy wood door opened to this amazing space. There were three musicians playing Moroccan music as we were escorted to our table in this little open room. We ordered our meal it was absolutely amazing. The meal was served family style the first course had these little fried wrapped meats which resembled spring-rolls, and six colorful salads; pumpkin, bean, zucchini, spinach, eggplant and some type of tomato. The second course was the main course which consisted of two items couscous with stewed beef and vegetables and this chicken with some yummy sauce can’t remember the name of the dish. The last course was desert some pastry with this white not very sweet glaze it tasted a little like caramel corn, and of course pastries and mint tea. When our meal was finished, we went out the same big heavy wooden the host unlocks the giant lock and let us out. There was a very tall Moroccan man wearing a Djellaba, the traditional dress for men, he was carrying this large lantern and he escorted us out of the dark alleys of the Medina. As we were walking back to the hotel this giant black rat ran in front of us. Oh a rat! I said and I took off running the other way and Kelly was close behind me. I do not like rodents!