Monday I had dinner at my host grandmother's house in the old medina. There are two Americans, both college students, living there. It was a nice change of pace to be speaking English at dinner as oppose to just French and Arabic.
I spent Tuesday evening exploring the "new medina" neighborhood with fiends. We went to a honey festival sponsed by the department of agriculture on the main drag, Mohammed V. The outside of he tent had a large picture of the king on a tractor. You find a picture of the king in just about every building in the country. There is a whole gallery devoted to him on Mohammed V- pictures of him shaking someones hand, sitting, standing, smiling, frowning, eating- you can even get a picture of the king jet skiing. Anyways, at the honey festival we tried about 8 different types of yummy local honey. After that we got juice (juice is big in Morocco). The avocado juice is delicious!
Wednesday marked our final day of learning letters! We started working on numbers and more vocab. I visited the national library- it' huge and quite nice but very research oriented- if there was a fiction section then we didn't find it. Books in different languages are all together- everything is organizes by topic. They appear to use the Dewey decimal system, although the sections were not in exactly the right order. In the evening we walked around the river bank.
The Fourth of July in Rabat came as a bit of a surprise- without all of the red white and blue it's a bit more inconspicuous. Some of the Americans at Qalam organized a potluck barbecue complete with burgers and watermelon. Most of us NSLIY kids then headed out to the cliffs on the ocean for sunset.
On Friday we experienced a typical instance of lack of clarity- one schedule said we were watching a movie, another suggested ping pong, and a third listed literature club. Naturally we went paintballing! We've become pretty accustom to nothing happening on time or as planned.
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