Morocco

Chefchaouen

henna

dyes

grape vines all over

very persistent musicians

fossils sold everywhere

People

Decided to dedicate this collage to my team and myself (how narcissistic!) – but I need proof that I was here. I am always pretty bad in handing my camera to someone to take a picture of me – so my teammates have more pictures than I do  (click on any picture to do a slideshow and see the captions – UPDATING daily) #ibmcsc

Looking serious, prepping to talk about ourselves

brainstorming on day 2 in our hotel

picking the right IBM video for career talk

Talking to students at the AST

Our community day picture (Venn diagram)

First Tangier picture of a team

Tajine for the 12th time in 4 days

Yes, taking pictures of the beer!

Italian restaurant, our first beer in the country – super excited

French restaurant, playing some game

Hmm, not that comfortable

reporting our status from hotel lounge

coffee/tea break – 5th in a day

watching Champion’s league – not sure why Laura (MX) is so excited with Germans playing

clearly, Lavinia not impressed with Fez – she has been here before – Yan Kai hectically taking pictures

No, not geishas – samurais

Brazilian, Swede and German, Japanese style, in French hotel in Morocco

Me by my palace in Fez

Willa and Laura rubbing some animal extract

Ryo smelling something in the perfumery

Daniel channeling Lawrence of Arabia

Ryo in F(f)ez

Team at the triumph !

Lavinia’s local style

Japan/China friendship

at the baking cooperative

at the women’s rights center

At our client for lunch

At our client house

Laura and I in front of the medina

Ali Baba explaining his wife situation

What? 3 wives? cheers!

Meeting with our client for the first time

at the UAF, Women’s rights group

Walking thru the medina in Tetouan

quick bread for dinner

discussing Baj Hajoui, the community center

lost or figuring out where to eat

Fez

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donkey refuel station

its not hot in the medina, even though it is 34C, lots of shade

me, learning how to make a carpet

jewish, arab and berber culture intermingle here very well

koranic school

old hotel from the 15th century

someone’s house

the team, did we stick out?

mausoleum of Idrissi – we can’t go in

people bring bread to the bakery where they bake it for them

love taking picture of the older people

the main gate to the mdina

hard to see the earrings through the camel head

spices !!

mix of generations

not easy moving things around

can’t read during elections? vote for the # of the party image

strollers are hard in medina

Tangier

this man just caught my attention

trying to be artistic

loved this little girl with Dora shirt, carrying groceries around medina where anyone can get lost

mosque for women

little shop

never know what is behind

door #234

blue doors mean Berber doors

this old lady was resting every 30 seconds, the medina is very hilly – its all up and down

gorgeous doors – but it is the people that make it pop alive

pretty wide for medina

Assilah & Tetouan