Balima Rabat

... raise their expectations for you. When I think more in depth on this topic, I suppose it is better to turn your head from this enticingly embellished enlightenment and to modestly practice monotonous mediocrity like the rest of us. I am pretentious.<br> <br>Here is a short section on food:<br> <br>I bought this horrible ananas juice (which has become my favorite juice after banana, &#8220;ananas&#8221; being pineapple). I suppose I really should have known better ...

... us about opportunities that exist to help those outside the U.S. for any length of time (a week long service project to 2 years in the Peace Corps). After the talk we all were extremely dirty and headed to the "Hamman" or "public bath" in Rabat for a cultural way to get clean. The Hamman was interesting in that it reminded me a lot of traveling back to the Gulch, taking showers together and simply feeling comfortable in one's own skin. The Hamman was a large ...

... are near Souissi. I then have a great idea, &#8220;Ana askoon qareeb min jamia Souissi.&#8221; (I live near the Souissi University.) <br><br> <br>&#8220;Matha?&#8221; (What?)<br><br>&#8220;Jamia Souissi, ow mumkin jamia Mohammed al khamis.&#8221; (Souissi University or University Mohammed V- they&#8217;re the same.)<br><br> <br>He asks again, this time in English. He assumes that I don&#8217;t understand the question. I understood alright. I just don&#8217;t know ...

... after class, almost of all us in the class (myself, Cory, Aryn, and Martin, plus Amina, Fatma-who has the same host family as Cory, Kelly-the girl who was on our flight, and Peter from England) all went to Oudiya and the souk. Oudiya is very pretty and looks over the water and the beach and the city inside is all painted in blue and white. Anywhosers, I'll post more about the halfa and everything later.

... well, and tested us on our Arabic. He was fun to talk to, if nothing else. There was also a guy in our compartment who attends university here in Rabat, who was going home to Fes for the weekend. He is studying Law and enjoyed practicing English with us. I showed him my Moroccan Arabic phrase book, and we practiced some words back and forth. Our group had been talking the whole trip, assuming he couldn't speak English ...

... hear how everybody's first days went. I can't get into it here, but it was quite a conversation! Then, after lunch, we visited the Hasan Tower; a Mausoleum for the King's father, grandfather and brother; and toured the Medina. We took the city bus home, along with one of the CCS managers. It was an experience, but I didn't feel nervous because Abdellah was with us. There aren't bus stops - people just "know" where to go. If you miss a bus, just wave ...

... thinks it&#8217;s cool to live in an English-speaking country, so that they don&#8217;t have to learn any second languages, is&#8230; obviously not a person who loves language nor linguistics. I persevere, though it can be frustrating&#8230; more on that subject in the Canarias, psycholinguistics&#8230;<br><br>But the good news so far is&#8230; NO SELF-APPOINTED GUIDES (read: Morocco can be nice)!!!