Hotel Fes Inn

... if you didn't read them or read them all. thanks for giving me a great opportunity to at least attempt to capture a fragment of this adventure, for my own selfish needs. and maybe along the way, making you pee yourself a little bit (in a good way). This lqst pqrt is zritten in prepqrqtion of ,e using q stqndqrd Q,ericqn keyboqrd in the very neqr future: Rock on, everybody, rock on (and thanks again for being a cyber PFD). Love; Poomway.

... a couple of cans of harden up from the supplies, we think we are going to need them. Our guides Jamel and Aziz seem a little intimidated by us because of our lash out over the internet earlier. Jamel speaks some English and Spanish but Aziz is a true nomad camel man and does not speak much of the French, Spanish or English. We walk on foot for a couple of hours through barren desert passing strange alien landscape like giant dried mud hills and crater holes and sand ...

... but one can glance glimpses of luxurious furniture inside). Throughout the day, one can hear Arabic music blaring from shops, which makes it hard to hear the regular plaintive chants of the hundreds of muezzins who call to prayer almost simultaneously. While the place seems at times to have changed little over the past few hundred years, one sees many foreign influences, ranging from the Moroccan version of Kris-Kross giving out free concerts for a festival currently ...

... Osti, j'ai mal --------------------------------------- --------------------- --------------------------------------- -----------------Ok, ok, ça descend. Un peu. ----------------------------- J'espère que ça remonte pas après le coin --------------------------------------- --------------------- --------------------------------------- --------------------- ------------------------------ C'est cool quand ça descend, mais il fait un peu ...

Finally the six weeks of school are over! Since we wrote the exam yesterday, I opted out of afternoon class today and hit the pool instead in an attempt to tan (since I have been covered up most of the time here in Morocco, I thought that it would be prudent to at least go back with a bit of colour) And to be fair, I worked my but off and didn't really skip any classes! But now I'm heading out (in 2 days) to the UK, for a month to veg out...It will be nice not to be constantly sweaty!

... of events had probably been going on around the country for centuries. We are so lucky to be able to observe such an important piece of history! Many of the horses were fairly good looking. In fact, yesterday we say a $35,000 mare for lameness at the clinic. People travel from all over the country to the Fondouk so that Doc can examine their horse. So back to the races......Lindsay, Shannon, and I were the only women at the track. And boy did we get some ...

... tourist-able. The tanneries in Fez are definitely worth checking
out- I wouldn't let the pigeons scare you away.
There is one curiosity I wished I had thought to ask about
however... How do they generate and collect such large quantities of
pigeon ****? If anyone knows the answer to this, please let me know.