{"id":3081,"date":"2012-08-17T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.globalroutes.org\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2012-08-17T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:45:15","slug":"girls-work-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/2012\/08\/17\/girls-work-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Work Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3082\" style=\"width: 719px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.globalroutes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Kelsey-Picture.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3082 \" title=\"community service in morocco\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.globalroutes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Kelsey-Picture.png?resize=719%2C502\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the Worksite in Azrou-photo courtesy of Kelsey McDermott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the course of our time on our worksite laying concrete for the school sports field, our relationships with the Moroccan workers went from non-existent to friendly and productive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0At the beginning of the second week, the Moroccans started to readily ask us to do specific tasks.\u00a0 This was awesome.\u00a0 In particular, we appreciated that they stopped \u201cstealing\u201d jobs from us girls \u2014 the previous week they would come up to one of us, motion towards our tool, mime handing it over in order so they could explain how to do it right, and then proceed to complete the job themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In a largely Muslim country, the fact that the Moroccan male construction crew came to respect us American teenagers \u2014 including us women \u2014 enough to do \u201cgood\u201d work and our own share of the work \u2014 was a remarkable achievement.\u00a0 In hindsight, however, I think the men\u2019s willingness to treat us as peers spoke to their general willingness to welcome us and their willingness to be flexible about how to accomplish the tasks at hand \u2014 perhaps even more than it spoke to our persistence and dedicated work effort on the site.<\/p>\n<p>At one point at the end of the second week I was discussing all that we had accomplished so far with Fahrid, one of the men at the worksite and the homestay \u201cFather\u201d of several of our group.<\/p>\n<p>Fahrid and I spoke (in French) about how we were almost done with the main project and how hard everyone had been working.\u00a0 Then he turned to look me in the eye and said, \u201cYou girls worked really hard.\u201d\u00a0 He then mused, \u201cYou girls are not as strong as the boys, but you take the same number of breaks.\u00a0 The girls, you are good, different and harder working than Moroccan girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He paused.\u00a0 \u201cWell,\u201d he conceded, \u201cmaybe they could do it too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of our time on our worksite laying concrete for the school sports field, our relationships with the Moroccan workers went from non-existent to friendly and productive. \u00a0At the beginning of the second week, the Moroccans started to readily ask us to do specific tasks.\u00a0 This was awesome.\u00a0 In particular, we appreciated that 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