summer update

Hello Everyone!

It's late afternoon and 85 degrees inside my house, with all the windows closed. It's hot, but not hot yet. A few weeks ago we experienced a heat wave with temps around 105, but it's cooled off since then. Sometimes it will be late at night, like 11 pm and my house is still so hot there's sweat rolling down my back, face, legs, arms. But, seriously, it's not so bad yet. Every time I complain to a Moroccan, they laugh at me and respond with, "it's not even summer yet."

So, I spent the last week and a half in Agadir at a training seminar for volunteers. I was happy to be reunited with the volunteers I trained in with back in September. We hadn't seen each other for six months, so there was a lot of catching up to do. Unfortunately, I got sick, so spent most of the time in my hotel room asleep.

I'm back at my site now and and still fighting off bacteria or stress or whatever it is that has taken control of my body. I will be here for another week working, or not-working if kids don't show up, and then it's off to the Summer Youth Camp! I am so excited to be working the youth camp. I get to escape the heat of summer and spend one month on the coast playing with kids on the beach. It's going to be great. It's probably going to be exhausting, too, but I got a taste of the camp experience at Spring Camp, so I am better prepared this time around.

I will work two camps, each fifteen days, for a total of one month. Then, Inshallah, my sister Megan will be visiting me during the month of August! I am already dreaming of the things we'll do together! Hopefully, traveling won't be so uncomfortable during the hottest month of the year, but we'll have to be prepared for anything.

Right now, I gotta do something about the fly situation in my house. It's a constant battle, but right now there are like eight tiny flies, I'm thinking newborns, and I need to find some orange peels to scare them away. I'll write more later!

Thanks to everyone for the packages, letters, emails, and support!
Love,
Jenny