Villa Mandarine Guest House Rabat

... Brazilian transsexual! What? In some parts of Brazil there are a lot of transsexuals and she looks just like them.&#8221; Not verbatim but it is close.<br>Me to Mathilda, &#8220;Well, I will be going to F with you. Wow. That sounded horrible!&#8221; I was referring to Bloc F where both Mathilda and Zineb live.<br> <br>Zineb: I stopped her when she told me you can get aspirin in three forms in Morocco. There is an aspirin you can swallow and the woman at the &#8220 ...

Ever since I had arrived in Spain I knew I wanted to travel to Morocco. Being only 14km across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain, it was hard to resist being able to travel to Africa so easily. Thus when I arrived in Madrid and saw that my school was organizing a trip to Morocco, I knew I couldn't pass it up.<br> Unfortunately, though I had just arrived home from Athens on Monday morning, I arrived at school shortly before 10pm on Wednesday night to start our journey to ...

... 8221; or some other French term that expresses regret.) He peers at me and I&#8217;m waiting for the typical male Moroccan &#8220;bonjour&#8221; or some other nonsense. Instead he says, in perfect English, &#8220;What are you taking pictures of?&#8221;<br><br>I say, &#8220;Al beeniat jammela.&#8221; (&#8220;The buildings are beautiful.&#8221;) He looks at me quite quizzically, so I add, &#8220;In the U.S. the buildings are ugly and boring.&#8221; Or something to that effect. He ...

Sorry, I must put a title on each of my blogs and the jerk-ish thing says, "C'mon, you can think of something clever." <br><br>Diary entry for today:<br> <br>Stuart wasn&#8217;t here today so I had two hours of one-on-one time with the teacher (I MUST LEARN HER NAME- on the to-do list). It&#8217;s like Chinese water torture. I would like to think that I am getting better from all this. My proof of this is that there is a new Italian girl and she speaks hardly any English ...

... 8217;s parents&#8217;s house. It might be the nicest house I&#8217;ve ever seen.<br><br> <br>On the way home, I started to shiver and didn&#8217;t stop for quite a while. Kelsey and I got back to my room (she was staying the night) and she got to take care of me. Zineb also came to my rescue. I had a super high fever. I don&#8217;t remember ever feeling that sick and I&#8216;m pretty sure it was only some sort of short lived flu. I&#8217;m certain ...

... br><br> <br>The class I got assigned to is Intermediate 1 and we are starting with Chapter 4 in "Al-Kitaab, Juza Al-thanee" (the relatively universal Arabic textbook, "The Book, Part II"). I am actually completely through chapter 6, but I think the review will be nice and it'll get ********* the last week. It's nice to have one-on-one time with the teacher, It's nice even though she thinks I am an idiot and keeps asking me if I know such words as "to learn ...

... br>Still we went for quite a long walk up to the Kasbah (the fotified section of the medina), which has a very impressive gate called the Bab Oudaias. Our hotel was also quite funny and a bit like a Moroccan faulty towers. We were about the only 2 in the whole hotel and the two old owners were practically falling over themselves trying to help us.<br><br>So we left Rabat this morning (Sunday) and headed for Casablanca!!

... me is "Amira" (they call me "Amira" because it is my Arabic name from back at WP, and they have a hard time with Catie/Caitlin) "kooli! kooli!" which translates to "Amira, eat! eat!" I think "kooli" is a Dareeja term. But the Arabic word is similar. My family speaks both Dareeja and Modern Standard, so they try to remember to speak in foos-ha for me. Anywhosers, in order to stay organzied, I'll expound on my first day of school later.

... with this placement and we're working through them. We make a good team, and balance each other well at the hospital. Her comments really meant a lot to me, and gives me a bit more confidence going back tomorrow. This afternoon, a few of us went to get train tickets for our weekend excursion to Fes and Meknes. We were buying for 9 people (3 tickets each). One ticket from Rabat to Fes, another from Fes to Meknes, and another ...

... In a deal that involved Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, France convinced Morocco's king to exempt the new country which was only possible if Morocco acknowledged the US as an independent nation. Another victory for piracy! Rabat is on the Atlantic, about 300 kilometers South of Tangiers at Gibraltar, 200 kilometers North of Casablanca. It has a mild climate, comparable to San Diego ...