A Moroccan Emprise Comments

by: S. Benzinane

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:03:57 -0700

My husband and I have talked about adopting a child from Morocco. I am very grateful to have found this website. He is Moroccan and I am American, and apparently, we fit the criteria for a Moroccan to U.S. adoption, which I’ve read can be complicated. Seeing the faces of these beautiful children brings our dream of adoption closer to reality. Although we are blessed with the ability to have our own children (we have a baby boy, 19 months), our hearts bleed for these unfortunate children who are without parents. Incha Allah, one day we will have the means to help.

Keep up the good work!

by: Alta

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:16:05 -0800

hi - just to let you know - you are doing a great job.
I am very interested in adopting a baby from Morocco. My husband is Moroccan and I am South African - living in Dubai. Could you please let us know how we could any info.
Kindest regards
alta

by: Alicia

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:24:28 -0800

Hey! Beautiful webpage. I’m the editor of the GAD Newsletter in Thailand right now. I bet you use a computer for yours. To make this even funnier, I’m in Bangkok for my last GAD meeting as well. I’ll be flying in to Morocco for a couple weeks starting on April 15th. Wanna fill me in on all the genderlicious issues you’re dealing with over there? I’d love to meet any of you PCVs. It’ll distract me from close of service issues. teehee

Alicia Irwin
PCV Thailand
Group 114

by: Amanda R

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:54:12 -0800

Josh - that is a great picture of you and the bald kid! Hope life is well. I am still reading you…. Amanda

by: Archie

Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:05:18 -0800

Awww… how cute. He looks just like you!

by: Jeffrey

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:36:46 -0800

Luck!

–Free

by: Dayez

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:27:08 -0800

I agree with you, moroccan society is on the move..
I wish you good luck.

by: Jeffrey

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:42:00 -0800

Joshua, I’m moved by this entry. I am sorry to hear that things worked out in this way. I know you were really looking forward to it (I mean two entries in anticipation), but I hope writing this has helped you through it. I actually took a pretty deep wound this week, too, and I know that writing about it on my blog helped me. What’s especially interesting for me in this is that I always thought you had pretty thick skin back in the day. Not sure if you were good at hiding it or if I just wasn’t paying attention, but I’m sorry that either had to be the case. Will you write more in a couple of days and let us know how things are between you and your host family?
Also, I’m with Scott. This is positively engaging, and I’ll go one further and say that I think you should try to get it published.

by: macs

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:12:56 -0800

Slaughtering of animals as a sacrifice must have an age-old tradition. When we were in Armenia last year (christian since the 3rd century AD and atheistic under Soviet rule for almost a 80 years) our guide (head of the all-Armenian tourist-office) told us eloquently, how she sacrified a lamb at an old monestary in order to thank for the graduation of her son. All the comprehensive details were just natural for her: how the animal was fed with salt first, that more salt was rubbed into his ears, how the knife had to cut through a certain side of the throat, which parts of the animals were burnt, which were offered to the priest and what was left for her and her son. - I wonder, why customs like that were lost in good old central Europe.

by: Lady M

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:03:47 -0800

It’s funny how you seem to really want to attend the slaughtering of the sheep. We have not slaughtered a sheep in my family since 1995. And we I spend the 3eid with my extended family, I never care about actually watching them do it…
I wrote about my 3eid on my blog. Completely different, I am afraid ;o)
M.