Today was a learning day; it was our first day at the homestay since Ramadan ended, which means there is an entirely new schedule of events every day. It turns out that Moroccans are my people. With the new schedule, we get up at 7 for class, work from 8-12, do homework and relax for a bit, eat lunch at 3, nap for a but, and then eat dinner at 10:30ish. These aren’t all too different from the hours I kept while living on my own at college, so it works pretty well for me.
Lunch is the big meal of the day here, and today’s lunch was accompanied by a reddish-purple drink, which I had hoped was strawberry-based, but which was in fact beets blended into water. It was kind of gross, but my host mom really likes it, so I guess I’ll have to get used to it.
The World Cup has been all-engrossing, and it reveals a lot about people. For example, my host mom is very angry that Saudi Arabia voted for the US to host the 2026 cup instead of Morocco. Also, the top-trending video on Moroccan Youtube is a cat the predicts the outcome of the Morocco-Iran game. It’s four-and-a-half minutes of the cat not doing what it’s supposed to, and finally in the it picks the food dish with the Iranian flag, which would seem like a fluke, but Iran won in overtime, so maybe this cat’s onto something.
The weather shot up 20 degrees the day after fasting stopped. My host mom thinks it is a sign that God was watching out for them during Ramadan. I can’t speak on that, but I can tell you that it’s hot as hell here and everything feels sticky and our apartment has no air conditioning.
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