Blogger Interview
Marie Loerzel
Rock The Kasbah
http://www.rockthekasbahafrica.blogspot.com
How long have you been blogging?
Over two years.
What inspired you to start a blog?
Moving to Africa.
Why did you move to Africa?
My husband had a perfectly good job in the states, but we always wanted to live overseas again. You see, we had lived in Germany previously. And he applied for a job with the Peace Corps before we moved from Europe, but there weren’t any openings then. So, we moved to Colorado
instead. Five years and a whole lot of settling in later, the Peace Corps offered my husband a job here in Morocco. And that’s the short version of a much longer story.
I seen many of your posts, and they are mixed with humor and seriousness. I would think leaving behind everything you know, would be stressful, how you deal with that?
I am by nature a very serious minded goofball. We’d done a lot of moving before, so we weren’t stressed to leave home and head to Africa. The stress hit after we’d been here a while. Things move much slower here in Africa. It takes time to figure out how to get things done or if they’re even worth getting done. Its constant frustration and knowing you are going to do things wrong and fail