Note From An Anonymous Moroccan Woman

The English center where I teach caters mainly to the upper middle and upper classes in Meknes. To try to balance out my work there, I volunteer at the Franciscan mission in Meknes's old medina, which gives language and computer skills classes. Year long courses there cost 50 Dh (~ $7) as opposed to the ten-week courses at my official job which cost around 1000 Dh (~ $130).

Last week I gave my first writing assignment, and I'm only now getting around to correcting it.

One paragraph in particular stood out. The woman who wrote it is in her late thirties or early forties, making her the oldest in a class of students in their teens and twenties. In class exercises she has spoken about her love for her children and her job cleaning houses. She is one of the most eager to answer questions and try out new grammar and vocabulary. Other than that I know nothing about her.

This is her paragraph verbatim:

A great thing in liFe is to find the kind of occupation that suits us it may even be said that this is on of the chief conditions For keeping perFect heath.
For my the best thing that I have in life is make cheldren and the worst is the Didn't study more in scool or in liFe.
this is the Fist stap let me begin studies.