Morocco (Part 5: Worldschooling Hub)

For our last two weeks in Morocco, we returned to the Atlas mountains for our first worldschooling hub. Hubs are programs that provide a community, and often programming, for families who practice worldschooling (aka traveling while educating their kids).  They exist all over the world and the set-up can vary significantly.  

For this one, all ages were welcome, and there were theoretically activities for the kids everyday.  It was located right on a small river in the valley of the mountains.  The program and supervision were very loose.  Still, there were some cultural classes, lots of soccer (in an empty pool) for Dev, hikes to mountaintops and waterfalls, ziplining, cooking lessons, scorpions, learning how to make and apply henna, kickboxing, Amazigh drumming and singing around a bonfire, and lots of swinging for both kids.  One afternoon the kids helped teach an English class to local children.

While I wouldn’t say it was what we expected, it was still a helpful learning experience for us.  It was nice for the kids to have time with other kids, for us to meet and learn from other families, and for us to learn more about the hub experience.     

Meanwhile we also survived our biggest challenge yet: submitting NYC high school and middle school applications!  Thanks to everyone who helped us along the way as we tried to make decisions from afar.

It has been five months since we left NYC and we have learned so much about the experience, what works for us, and what works for our kids.  There is still so much we don’t know and it constantly evolves.  With all that said, we decided to make some tweaks to our itinerary.

After Morocco we will make a quick stop in Spain – to Valencia and Barcelona – where we are very excited that Mira’s friend, Maya, will join us for a bit!  After that we will do an even quicker stop in Istanbul, pass through Cairo to see the pyramids (bucket list!), and then land in Ghana for a while before heading East to Rwanda and then Tanzania.

More soon!