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Literally one of the most digusting things I have ever eaten in my entire 23 years of living. A mound of rice, with dark colored melted butter that taste like movie theatre popcorn butter on top. Doesn’t sound like it would taste like shit, but it did. This happened a couple of weeks ago but I’m just not getting up the courage haha and time to talk about it to you, the world, right now. Please advise others against eating this. But if you dare, go ahead. Anyway we were just doing to my old host dad’s parents house for dinner. Okay cool. So we get there, they laugh at me, ask me why I don’t speak French, test my Darija abilities and then bam eat bread, drink tea and then they bring “it” out: butter rice. YUCKY!!! I had about 3 bites and wanted to die. I wanted to spit it out but I couldn’t so I just ate it. Then on the way across the street, back home, I thought to myself, “NEVER AGAIN!!!!!”.

Anyway besides that, the occasional stomach ache and having to switch my host family for reasons that if you wanna know, just email me, everything is good. We find out our final sites today and I’m both really nervous and excited. Sad to leave the host family I live with now. They are awesome. My host sisters are sooo cute! And so well behaved, it’s amazing!

This past week, or 3 days really have been insane. Sooo busy! We planned events with the local school and association which included: a mural, jam session, composting session, peace tree(olive) planting, skit and plastic bag pick up. So a very busy Monday and Tuesday. Monday we went to the school and did our events with the kids. At first a little freaked out by the insane amount of children that wanted to do the jam session with Mina and I. But then some of the kids were taken to do the composting session with Colin and Anton. So basically Minda and I made this bomb trash drum set and played a reggaeton beat as the kids sang a song about trees and the environment that our LCF, Fatima, wrote. Pretty amazing actually. Hopefully I can post the video soon. Then, Colin and Anton did a composting session with some kids: what not to burn, what you can burn and what to composting then what you eventually have to just bury. Then Steven did a drawing contest for the mural, the kids voted on the two best drawings and then drew them on the wall with a picture of the “dub” in the middle. The dub as explained in my pervious entry, is a local lizard. The mural didn’t turn out exactly how Steven wanted it to, but it’s still pretty awesome looking. Not finished yet, we were gonna go back yesterday and finish it but it rained so the wall was wet obviously haha. Then we planted our “Peace Tree”: olive tree. That was nice except for the fact that I almost fell into the hole that we were planting a tree in because all the children were surrounding us. That’s the thing about the kids, when they make a circle, it’s a small and tight and just keeps getting smaller and smaller. So I get squished and more and more and more haha. Kinda funny and then kinda not when you’re like um woah there, I don’t wanna fall in that mudd hole thanks.

So after that extremely long day, we went home. The next day, Tuesday we had our skit for the town at the association. A room that was way too small, no real ventilation etc, was where we had our skit. The crowd was loud, so you couldn’t really hear anything which sucked. We wrote a skit called “Mina the Mika”. It was a about a plastic bag named Mina and her life. She is made from oil, used only one time and then thrown away in the trash. A great wind blows and she flies into the sky and hits a bird and kills the bird. The wind dies down and she falls to the river where she kills a fish. Then someone finds her on the river shore, washes her and reuses her for years. Eventually she brings her back to the town she originally came from to celebrate earth day. On the way out, the woman wants to buy some peanuts, the store owner asks her if she wants a plastic bag and she says, “No, I have Mina”. So all in all, a story about how plastic bags are made, used one time and thrown out, blowing into the air and killing birds, killing fish and other animals in the river and the possibility of recycling as much as possible. Not sure if the town got that exactly, but they all had fun and a lot of people showed up which was awesome. So after our skit, the town did a skit that they wrote. Couldn’t really hear it so that kinda sucked but I believe it had something to do with water conservation. Then after that long day, we all went home.

Yesterday we did language, wrote our earth day report and prepared our presentation and Mina and I also had a jam session on our drum set with one of my neighbors. So awesome!!! She was playing some avocado juice bottles (pretty damn well, I might say) haha. Then we met at the association, took all the mika bags that were collected by the kids (plastic bags) and burried them instead of burning. The finally we were done with all of our earth day events! Soooooooooo tired!! But I had a lot of fun. Definitely gonna build another trash drum set!