25/5/18: When Life Gives You Apricots, Don’t Eat Too Many, Otherwise You’ll Spend the Rest of the Day Just Doing Your Best to not Shit Your Pants.

So the traveler’s diarrhea hit today. I was expecting it to come at some point, but it still sucks. I blame the apricots; I ate a lot of them last night, and they were the only thing for dinner that I hadn’t already eaten. Plus, the diarrhea kind of smelled like apricots, which is probably not something you wanted to know, but which is definitely something I needed to share.

Class was pretty uneventful otherwise, and I came home immediately afterwards and slept until Iftar, so I don’t have too much to write about today. Iftar had some anchovies that we were supposed to eat whole: head, tail, and everything, and that was weird, but if you didn’t think about what you were eating, they tasted alright.

Also, my taxi driver almost got into a fight with another taxi driver today (it was definitely my driver’s fault), so I suppose here would be a good place to discuss driving in Morocco. In short, it’s terrifying. If there are speed limits, they are clearly just a suggestion, as are stop signs, and I have yet to see anyone use a turn signal. Furthermore, only about half the taxis have seatbelts. The conflict today started because my taxi driver drove in-between lanes to get past two slower-moving cars.

On a high note, I bootlegged the new A$AP Rocky and Pusha-T albums, which means I am officially a Barbary Coast Pirate. Come at me Thomas Jefferson.

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