This is a pic of the transport that I ride in to and from school. Teachers at CAS are given the free option of riding in the Blue Bird each morning and afternoon. Hamid, the driver, is amazing. He can parallel park this bus, using only his mirrors and somehow navigates the ridiculous traffic of Casablanca with plenty of blasts of his horn and an amazing sense of the size of the bus.
Today over the fabulous dinner that Zakia cooked for us, Julie and I were discussing the first day of school and she shared with me a conversation that she had with her students while reading Ways We Go to School. Students shared that most of them were dropped off by their drivers (all in luxury vehicles of course!). As she explained that many students in the US go to school in yellow school buses, students were able to make connections. They were a bit confused about why students would take the yellow bus in the States, when here in Casablanca, the teachers take the blue bus to school. In their minds, buses are for teachers, and cars with drivers are for students. What a different world!
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