The Field Challenges have gotten crazy the past few days, and I haven't had as many opportunities to write!

While continuing to work on our Mondialago stove designs, we've been spending a good amount of time the past few days learning about water treatment and wastewater management processes and procedures. The science behind these are absolutely fascinating, and Dr. Schuhmann, Dave Vargas, and guests alike have been helping us to understand these complex topics.

One of our craziest Field Challenges yet was to Chellah. Our clue is what inspired today's title, and the Americans and Moroccans all had to work together to solve the clue, then explore the necropolis to understand the hydrological history. 

We were tasked with doing this in individual teams, but when we all pretty much figured it out together, we decided to not quite follow our instructions exactly, and we all went together and explored together. This was probably the most fun and educational day of the entire trip. Leisurely walking around the beautiful landscape and looking at the waterways and vegetation were awesome things to do. I wish everyday could be like this and meeting new people and learning about them and enjoying the sun and investigating cool things. What an experience!

Another Field Challenge we took was to Meknes to understand the hydrological history of that city. Each team was tasked with a different destination, and ours required us to hop on a train and go hours outside the city for this investigation. Luckily, Lamyae was on our team for this trip, and her family lived in Meknes! Her father proved to be a huge help, from giving us tea (awesome!) upon our arrival, to getting us connected with all kinds of people around the city to show us everything we needed to see. 

These Field Challenges were just such awesome experiences, and made us all really close as teammates. I was becoming very fond of all of our classmates from Ecole Mohammadia, and knew it was going to be very tough to say goodbye!