Hi!
I realize it's been a while since I've updated. I don't have anything super exciting to write about but I figured I'd update anyway. Last week was pretty much a blur of babies, missing Ben, craving American food and things like that. The babies are still as precious as ever. Lace and I took our cameras and got some pictures of the orphanage and the nurses but they stuck to the no pictures of the babies rule. We may have snuck a few.. shh.
We also started our souvenir shopping. Everything is so cheap when you convert it to US dollars, it's hard to resist buying tons of things. Luckily I have a space limitation so I won't be able to deplete my bank account haha. Friday Lacey, Chelsea and I got pedicures. They also got massages but I opted out on that one. The pedicures were really nice. It was only about $12 and they spent like 45 minutes doing them. My feet were as soft as a baby's bottom afterward! Then Friday evening after dinner a bunch of us went to get gelati since it was some of the volunteers' last evening. It was delicious as usual. Saturday was a sad day because we had to part with Chelsea. The three of us pretty much spent all our time together so it was sad to see her go. She's with her family in Paris for the week.
Lacey and I decided not to travel anywhere this week end because we were kind of traveled out. Also, we didn't really want to spend the money. We had a lot of down time but I found it relaxing to just sleep in and read and such. Then the new volunteers arrived in the afternoon and evening on Saturday. 23 of them!! It's weird having a new group of volunteers here and only 6 total from the group that started with us. It feels like a bunch of strangers staying in my house haha. I guess we kinda get to see what it's like for Mohamad and Khadija and the rest of the staff to always have volunteers coming and going. Most of the people seem really nice, it's just quite crowded now (our room is at max capacity with 8 instead of the 3 we were used to). It's funny how they all think of us as the experts. I don't really feel like I've been here long enough to give them advice but I'm going along with it haha. I guess we do know more than they do at this point. Lacey and I have kind of been hermits in our room. Of course we've been talking to the new volunteers a lot but since we're only here for 4 more days theres not much point in building lasting friendships. Also since it's their first week they're doing all of the first week things that we already did.
Since there's so many volunteers at the orphanage we have to take two trips now. Theres an earlier one (8 to 12) and a later one (8:30 to 12:30). Lacey and I chose to do the earlier one. It's nice getting home a little earlier and for some reason the day went really fast today even though we were there the same amount of time. I'm not looking forward to having to say bye to the babies but I'm trying not to think about that yet... we still have 4 days with them!
And I continue to have anxiety about missing our connecting flight in Paris since we only have an hour and 15 minutes to get to an entirely different terminal (assuming our flight from Rabat is on time). Hopefully checking my suitcase all the way through will make things easier, even though they'll probably lose it. I just really don't feel like having to wait until Sunday to get a filght home if we miss it.
I think those are all of my updates for now. I will probably post only one more when I get home this week end. Unless something crazy happens this week. See you all soon!