Moroccan School

Pictured: Katrina's classroom with her teacher on the right, Katrina on her first day of school.

Katrina is now attending a Moroccan school part time. All instruction is in French and most play is in Arabic. The school's normal hours are 8:30-11:30, then a break for the "French lunch," then back again from 2:30-6:30. We are thankful the director is allowing Katrina to just attend three mornings a week. The other mornings and afternoons as needed I continue to homeschool her.

This has been a hard decision as the teaching methods are different from what I would like and because the play is rough - but we are giving it a try. This way she gets a start in French and Arabic at a prime age for language learning.

So far Katrina does not have a lot of good or bad to say about school. She is happy to go and is happy when we pick her up.

She doesn't really understand what is going on yet, but has started to learn to count as well as the all-important word for "snack!" When we first came, the only thing Katrina didn't seem to like about Morocco was being surrounded by other languages. Now this doesn't bother her and she is very interested in learning new words. We are thankful.

Please pray that this will work out and that Katrina will be able to overcome her shyness and participate in the class as she becomes able.

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