I woke up late and went off on my own to find lunch today, and after a half-hour of wandering, I managed to find a restaurant that was open. I ordered a fish tajine (a tajine is a clay bowl with a conical covering used to cook food, and by extension, any dish cooked in a tajine is also referred to as a tajine. Since it’s made of clay, you can get the tajine really hot and still keep almost all of the moisture, so it makes delicious meat and vegetables) and upon receiving it, I discovered a cat at my feet, begging for food. I didn’t want to give it my tagine, but I tossed it an olive, since I was given a bowl full of them, and as hard as I try to enjoy them, they make my want to throw up, but the cat wouldn’t eat the olive. This bougie-ass cat only wanted fish tajine. He got none of it.
After lunch I wandered my way into the old Medina, which was beautiful. Every building was painted white with blue trim, and there were murals everywhere (apparently the city has a huge art festival every year where they paint over last year’s murals and fly in artists from across the world to create new ones). Plus, it was much smaller than Fes, so I could wander around without getting lost. I spent some time at the market looking for an ‘Eid gift for my host family, but than a man started giving me a tour, so I followed him. I understand that fake tours are super common in Morocco and knew that I would be charged money at the end, but the tour was interesting and I figured it couldn’t be that expensive, so I went along, and learned all sorts of cool things (Alisah has a palace made for a pirate king. That’s the dream). Then the tour ended, and I learned just how much it cost. Some mistakes you have to make for yourself.
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