HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'm excited for what the future brings. So far Salah and I have tackled one of our first steps in this very long paper work processes. They sent a letter saying they have received our file and we can check our status online. NEXT... the letters go off to graduate school. I will post on this later. Best of luck to all.

EID Stamps

My family was telling me about these spam emails that are going around the internet in the United States saying you shouldn't buy the EID Stamps which support Muslim holiday's. There are stamps for the following holiday's: Christmas, Chanukkah, and Kwanzaa and there was no protest against them. hummm.. Well I bought a few just to support religious freedom and happy the the U.S. Postal Service is helping by supplying stamps for EID as well.

HAPPY HOLIDAY'S TO ALL!!!
(no matter which one you celebrate)

VISA

Visa Processes

PAPERS ARE All Filled OUT AND READY TO SEND OFF


The papers are in the mail.
Humdullah

Headed Home

I have headed home for the holiday's and will be back in Action in Morocco January 15.

Cheese Salad

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

First day at my new job

Nov 26 2010

Just another beautiful day in the neighborhood

Hassan Tower

Is a picture of a half finished minaret an incomplete mosque started in 1195. It was intended to be the worlds largest mosque at 60 meters high. It was abandoned at 44 meters in 1199 when Sultan Yacoub al-Mansour passed away. Inside of the tower there is a ramp instead of stairs where the would ride a horse to the top for the call to prayer 5 times a day. The architect Jabir also used a similar design plan for the minaret in Giralda in Seville, modern day Spain. Both of these towers were modeled after the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech. All of which contain the architecture detail of a ramp on the inside instead of stairs. In Giralda the Spanish later added a western style top to the minaret and converted it in to a bell tower, Secille Cathedral after the Reconquista.

The minaret is located in Rabat my new home city.

Stamp Out

Stamp out and the end of my two year service in Peace Corps Morocco. Nov. 12 2010 NEXT....