Today after class, I realized I only had about $2 worth of Dirhams left, which was enough to either get lunch or get a taxi back to my house, but not both. I went to the mall to try an ATM, but my Debit card kept getting rejected, and I didn’t know the PIN for the credit card. I tried to call home, but the banks weren’t open yet (Morocco is five hours ahead), so I went back to the ALIF, and Liz gave me the bread from her lunch (she can’t eat gluten [not sure how she’s still alive, 80% of the food in Morocco is bread] so I get her bread most days actually) which was nice. I got a message from my mom, who had talked to the bank, and it turns out I was doing the ATM wrong the whole time. It turns out when they asked if you were using a savings account or a credit account, you actually had to press the “Neither” option hidden at the bottom… On the bright side, I probably have enough hard currency to get through the rest of the trip now.
While at the mall, I got an email that the newest version of FL Studio (the program I use to compose music on my computer) had come out, and the update was free (shout out to the people at Image Line by the way. It was really refreshing to not have to pay for the latest update to something I had already paid for a couple of years ago) so I attempted to download it at the mall. The mall has the strongest wifi in the city, but it was a really big file, and the mall wifi stops and makes you watch an ad every thirty minutes, and when it stopped, my download would start over, so after an hour of downloading, I gave up with nothing to show for my frustration (I was actually able to read about 50 pages while waiting, so it wasn’t a complete waste).
After Iftar, I had a nice talk with my host mom, and after that I went to the Riad, where I sat down to do my homework and try once again to download the new FL update. The Riad wifi is pretty weak so it took 70 minutes, but I finally got it installed. Now I can rest.
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