Its FINALLY Friday!!!

The weeks here go by so slowly because of how strenuous the classes are. Monday and Tuesday were just normal days at school, nothing much happened. Tuesday we reviewed for our first exam. Aya and I were up until about 12 studying for the exams before we ended up passing out.

Wednesday we had our first exams. We had a 5 part Vocabulary exam first, I ended up getting an 86 on it (thank god) and then we had our moroccan dialect spoken exam next. It wasn't as hard as I was expecting it to be, but still super nerve wrecking! Wednesdays are our cultural day so after our quizzes we had singing. We learned a couple Moroccan and Egyptian songs and we learned old McDonald had a farm in Arabic. Except it's Old Mohammed had a farm here. They showed us a bunch of youtube clips of different types of music that they make and listen to all over Morocco. It was really neat. Since it was a half day, after class we all headed over to the market (souq) and hung out for a while. I got a bunch of souvenirs for people, a back pack for the weekend trips and some sunglasses. Everything is so cheap, even before you bargain!

Thursday was classes all day and then after class me and three of the other girls headed over to the cafe right next to school for some coffee and pastries. It's a super cute little French cafe with the most amazing pastries you will ever have and they are all around 2-3 $! We went and bought our train tickets for this weekend and then were all off to our respective houses.

For whatever reason our host family doesn't eat with us. We aren't sure if its because they feel like we need space or if they just don't want us to eat with them. They put a little table in our room and bring our meals to us on trays. Normally the family doesn't eat while we are home but the other day they brought us our meal and then the entire family went and ate in another room! The daughters are really nice though and are always joking with us. The father still won't show his face, anytime he is talking to someone and we walk in the room, he leaves or moves out of our sight and keeps talking. We're not sure why...

Anyway... this weekend we are going to Asilah, Tetouan, and Chefchauoen. Asilah is a little fishing port town and we are planning to spend the night there tonight and spend the morning at the beach tomorrow. Then we are taking the bus to Tetouan and exploring for the afternoon/ evening, then spending the night in Chefchaouen and all of Sunday exploring around their. They are supposed to have a beautiful city with all blue buildings from when it was a Jewish city.

There are a bunch of beautiful caves nearby that we want to check out and this thing called the Bridge of God. It should be a fun weekend! And I will make sure to take plenty of pictures!!!

This is some of our group. From the left there is me, then Lauren- an only child who just finished her freshman year at Princeton and shes from Delaware.

Then Alex, She goes to Mary Washington and lived in Singapore pretty much her entire life through highschool except a few years.

Nate is the only guy in our program, he was one of the ones who were here last 5 weeks he goes to Drew and he is going to be here for i think the next year.

Gabrielle goes to UIC in Chicago.. something with Illinois in it?

Aya is the girl that lives with me in the same host family, she's Muslim and was born in/lived in Saudi Arabia for a while. She moved to Fairfax VA and now goes to Penn

Kajari is Indian she has lived in Sambia her entire life and moved to Ohio? maybe to go to Grinnell College.