Morocco - Entry #4

This past week we had our first itinerary meeting. We were dismissed early from our previous class and meet as we usually would during lunch in Room 204. Through this meeting we discussed possible plans about what we could do on the trip. The majority of the meeting was spent by the World Challenge people explaining to us what we were the possible activities we could do. There were three main categories: mountain trek, camel riding, and service project. Once all the different types of treks, the camel riding journey, and service project ideas were explained to us we chose the most popular ones amongst our whole group.

We formed three different itineraries because of the size of our large group. Everyone wanted to do some sort of service project so we decided upon that to be included in each itinerary. Then there was a number of people who wanted to do a mountain trek so we decided two of the three groups would be set aside for one hard trek and one medium paced trek. Both are able to be done. This left the last option open for the camel riders. There was a small problem when too many people wanted to do camel riding but the World Challenge people convinced a number of people that mountain trekking was just as good if not better of an experience.

At the end of the meeting our three itineraries were settled upon and the groups for each seemed even. Although who is in which group is not final yet, the meeting was very productive and a big step towards the trip.