A Walk Around

To begin with our college group was split up to travel, 20 here and 18 there. That was quite wierd because usually groups travel totally together. After a decent day of travel our first job at our destination was to get our small group (Ellen, Abi, Tash, Tony and me) to our final destination in our little town. So off we were hailing taxis, haggling for prices for taxis, verifying prices, arranging more taxis for others, and then piling 6 people into taxis that only had 5 spots. If you have ever traveled in Africa you know that as many that can get into a car get in, so we did. About an hour later our groups all arrived together, spending about the amount that we were supposed to spend, a little haggling but that is expected. The first day was lazily spent, in all reality the second day was lazily spent as well. A little tour into the town, a shot at Arabic (Salaam Elaykoum) (spelling?) but not much other language beyond that based on only speaking English. English is not universal, as I met very few speakers on this trip. Anyway the next day the plan was to go for a walk, to some it was just that but to others it was a full-on hike. The views were astounding (pics later on) the little villages nestled in the mountains, olive groves, cacti type vegetation, little paths and so on. Our group had a great time looking over the valley as far as the eye could see and it as far. The hike back down the mountain was not easy, Rebecca and I took it slow, that was fine there was no rush. In the evening after resting a while our group enjoyed a great worship service and tagine (traditional dish). That evening 4 of the little groups found out about the mini-expedition which I will tell you all about in later blogs. We found out that we were going to work our tails off on different work projects, again I will tell you about those on a later blog. Again sorry about the ambiguousness (spelling, word?) of this blog but I have been instructed as such. The walk around was great, the view was amazing, the opportunities were astounding. later
earl