Today was the first day of our Morocco in Context course, which is ostensibly about Moroccan history, but to be honest, could probably end up being about nearly anything. The lecture itself was very interesting, but the room was made entirely of marble and other students were quite talkative, so at times it was hard to hear. Hopefully something will change on that front.
For lunch I had more of the beans and today ordered the lemon juice instead of the “milkshake”, but it turns out the lemon juice was actually orange juice. I’m not complaining, because orange juice is still good, but someone needs to fix this menu.
I’ve been starting to notice cliques and divisions arising within our group, and I don’t know what to do (I personally don’t think anything can be done), but I hope things don’t continue down this path. I have no problems with all but one of the students in our group, and I don’t wasn’t to have to split time between two cliques to see everyone. Plus, this makes weekend traveling harder. If we don’t all travel together (and it sounds like people don’t want to), it means I must either attach myself to one of the groups or travel alone, and while traveling alone would probably be best for my Arabic, I’d rather not. That said, I also don’t want to pick sides. Hopefully this all shakes out alright.
Although taxi’s in Fes are metered, some drivers will try to make up their own prices when dealing with people who are clearly foreigners. Today, the driver tried to charge Fan and I 20 dirham for an 8 dirham ride. I gave him a 10 (I didn’t have the change for 8), and when he insisted on 20, I got out of the cab. I considered that an adequate solution, however Fan was a little more shaken and suggested we call the police. Over 12 dirham. That’s $1.26.
Iftar included “cow foot” tonight, but everyone else ate it up before I had a chance to try it (oh no…).
When I bought my towel at the French Walmart the other day, I made the mistake of buying a white one that was half size. On the surface, there are no problems with that, but I think someone mistook it for a rag, because today it has a bunch of neon pink stains on it, as if someone used it to clean up something that spilled. Luckily, it cost about $2. Tomorrow I will be purchasing a full length, colored towel.
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