Morocco Day 7

Being unable to move about much ( remember, 4 people on probably a queen sized bed) left us all a bit tired, but it was worth it to be able to lie there and watch the dawn approach.  The sky looked like a rainbow, all the colors represnted as they spread from the horizon.  Others from camp were coming up and had to make do with chairs or sitting on the stone wall, but we had the most comfortable perch by far.  We laid there as the sun slowly brightened, then got up to see it actually begin to peek above the horizon.  After it fully emerged, which took about two minutes, we promtply went back to the tents for a pre-breakfast nap.

During this nap, I had a crazy dream.  I was still a teacher in the dream, but some guy had come along and was purporting to revamp the entire way that we teach special ed.  He was very condescending im the dream to my colleagues and I, but in the end it spurred me on to become a better teacher: Right before I woke up, I was walking out the door, heading for one of my students, with the idea of proving to her that I would be the teacher she deserved.  This isn't to say that I did a poor job with my students this year, but there is always room to improve- especially when it is their futures and their educations at stake.  The dream was all the more interesting because I've been reading Michael's copy of the alchemist, which talks about universal languages and following our personal legends.  I feel that right now teaching is what I am meant to be pursuing...if Coelho is right, maybe the desert was giving me reinforcement in the universal language of dreams lol.

When we got up at 7:30, the heat almost knocked us over.  It was mind-boggling that the temperature could rise from being a bit cool to boiling you alive in only an hour.  We did eventually figure out that it was around 120 degrees Fahrenheit.  After breakfast, we departed from camp via the SUVs again.  We stopped along to road to view some fossils, which was a wild experience.  Here we werew, hundreds of miles from the current day coastline, and there are sea creature fossils embedded in the stones.  Really wild.

Our hotel for the night could have been a palace, and im fact was named such although it had never been a royal residence.  Pool lounging, a tagine dinner, and then celebratory cake and drinks for Grayson's birthday rounded out the night.