Hotchkiss Morocco 2009

Thanks for updates leaders. It's fun to tag along virtually.

I AM LAUREN FEURY'S GRANDMOTHER AND I WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE MOROCCO TRIP OF 2009.
THANK YOU,
MARY FEURY

I'm Marie Troutman's Aunt and wanted to let you folks know how lucky you are to have her as an Assistant Leader.

We virtually followed UMW's trip to Morocco in 2007 and reveled in Marie's descriptions of her travels. She also educated us by including an Arabic word for the day.

Just as an example, the following is an excerpt from her message sent June 19, 2007:

"The Sahara is interesting because there's only two colors - the pinkish sand and the blue sky. There's nothing else to see. There's also nothing to hear, or smell. There's nothing. It was such a huge contrast from noisy, overwhelming Fes. It was like being in a vacuum.

We arrived at the campsite at dusk, and tried to climb the giant sand dune that overshadowed it. And when I say giant, I really mean giant. It was enormous - most people didn't make it to the top. That's how big it was. After that adventure we ate dinner and danced around to some rollicking Berber tunes, all drums and chanting.

My UMW Arabic professor also gave a lecture about the history of astronomy and pointed out all the stars. I've never seen so many stars before, and neither have you. It's mindboggling. There's no way to wrap your head around how many stars there are. You can't even pick out the most familiar constellations because of all the interference from stars you've never seen before. I didn't know what to do with myself. When I was laying in bed looking at them I couldn't convince myself to close my eyes and go to sleep."

You have a real gift in Marie!