Hotel Negociants Casablanca

... 8230; imagine you are walking downtown and you see someone with a Subway sub and you just grab it and rip off a hunk and keep walking and then you see someone with a DP and grab it and take a sip. It was hilarious. Some of the little shops would just have huge lambs hanging and they would chop it up right there in front of you.  then there was one with just a bunch of live chickens and I saw the guy put one on the scale for someone....apparently they chop the head off ...

... to my 6-year-old niece, MeKenzie, via Skype, and told her about this. She said, "where did they go to the bathroom?" I said I didn't know, and asked her to imagine that situation at her school. She said, "well, I'd probably just go outside to pee." :) We visited another school this morning (Groupe Scolaire la Residence), which was at the other end of the spectrum - an "IB" school ...

... next French lesson. i have found that CSI: Miami has given me the greatest insight into the French language (but there is still no man, even in French, that can make David Caruso's voice sound cooler than David Caruso. i love you all and i'll connect with you soon. ted. to be continued... *Arabic Lesson of the Day: Does anyone here speak English? wash kayn shee hedd henna lee kay'ref negleezeeya? -i think by the time it would take me to get all that out, i would have another bowl of olives.

... want to stick their face into the dirty floor! Not me! The inside of the Mosque was absolutely beautiful. It took over 200 engineers, 1000 workers, and 500 artisans' working day and night to complete it in six years. The gigantic door at the front of the Mosque opens automatically and the roof retracts back too when it is good weather outside. The marble floors were cold to walk on but they installed heaters in the floor for when it gets really cold. They ...

... green landscape, and children playing a football game on the side of a mountain in the distance. It was absolutely breathtaking. Then the scenery changed, and it became drier and more desert-like as we headed south. Women dressed more and more conservatively, many completely covered from head to toe with only a small slit to see out of. Men clopped along the side of the highway on their donkeys, and schoolboys rode their old bicycles off to who-knows-where. The south ...

... herders tending to their flocks; taking advantage of the green material which seemed to form alongside the roadway. This is similar to what some of our farmers in the more arid regions of our great southern land. I also noticed the ratio of men to women (that is, visible men to women) had increased, at least through the market places alongside the roads for towns through which we passed. I am unsure whether this is a cultural reflection; in that ...

We were indeed up EARLY with a capital E and ate quickly in our room. We proceeded to the lounge to wait for our tour departure. Unfortunately, the departure was somewhat delayed as they had to wait a while for clearance for the passengers to disembark and even when we left, only those passengers on our tour had yet been cleared apparently. We boarded our bus (very similar to the ones we took to the Alhambra, but with a strange smell) and were off quickly ...

... my way to see the Central market which was pretty boring - nothing seemed to be open and I think a lot of people are taking a 4 day weekend - don't blame them. I went back to the hotel (Casablanca doesn't really have much of a tourist -- its more business) and read my book before dropping into a nanna. At about 6 I went to find some food but most things were shut -- I did find my new hotel ...

... that she shakes. But that's enough to embarrase us even when no ones around. What's wrong with our country! I'm gonna keep this short because I'm losing my inspiration for writing. Hopefully we can put some pics up so you all can see how visually interesting morocco is. Hey adam here. Just wanted to add that we visited a city called Esouera towards the end of our trip and it was a great experience. It is a port city and used to be the center of trade ...

... t stay overnight though, this time.<br><br>I took the 45 minute Stansted Express to Liverpool Street. I had never been there before, obviously a lot of business, with lots of well-dressed, well maintained, good looking business men in their suits crossing the streets everywhere with hot British accents. <br><br>All around the Liverpool St. area there was amazing smell from many of the exotic restaurants around, offering lunch offers but they were all so crowded or ...