It's been such a good weekend! Saturday morning I woke up and went running with Chandra by the coast. There's this really cool cave that when the tide is out is completely empty and we explored it while talking about stuff. It really hit me how old I feel. I mean I'm in frickin Africa. and making plans for a month by myself. with pretty much no guidance i've chosen a topic to explore and set up a volunteer opportunity that has given me more contacts that can help me get what I need to do my project well. After our run we went to our respective houses, showered then I met her at her house and watched glee (soooo good! "what's a duet?" "a blanket" hahahaha) I had lunch with my family, then went shopping with megan and met up with jena. i went on a little bit of a shopping spree but nothing too big. i was concerned i had an eye infection (it was a little red for a few days) so I threw out my contacts (they were old anyway) and eye make up and bought new make up, then bought some random stuff i've been meaning to get. I ended up shopping for like 4 hours! then I had tea with my family and started studying. Megan came over and we had a great heart to heart. I can't tell you enough how awesome all of my friends here are. i've been blessed with the best group! I had mentioned earlier that we should all watch a movie at my house, but there was some confusion as to when. my family eats dinner around 9:30,but chandra thought i said they should come over at 9:30 so everyone showed up at my house a little after 9. i had also mentioned that people could sleep over, but i hadn't talked to anyone about definite plans. so when 3 of my friends changed into pajamas i was a little confused, but it ended up working out. Eli, the guy in different classes but the same program who lives across the street, ended up coming over and we all watched random youtube videos and talked for a while. It was so much fun! some left at 11 and eli left at 12:30, but we stayed up until like 2:45 just talking. it was so awesome to have them over. Sunday I ate all day. we got up kinda early, had breakfast with my family, who I apologized to profusely for not warning about it, then I went to church with Lauren. it was awesome because I found out that they're going to be having masses in english starting in November and they're having a meet and greet for students next weekend. it should be pretty fun! I felt so good today! after i got back from mass i went to sale (the next town over) to visit Chaimaa's aunts and cousins. We got there and had this awesome couscous with peanuts, hard boiled eggs (which i never used to like, but i can eat with other things) and chicken. It was amazing!!! after the couscous they came out with icecream which oh man i could not get enough of. it had caramel on top and i think vanilla on the bottom. it was incredible. then chaimaa, leila (chaimaa's young aunt) and I started to fall asleep so we went into another room to rest. instead of sleeping though i ended up explaining halloween to leila and they started playing music so it turned into a big awesome dance party. after we got tired, we joined everyone else and had pastries with coffee (another thing i can drink only because it's 10% coffee 80% milk and 10% sugar in a small cup). The last thing I ate was this pastry that was this circular thing with white chocolate on the bottom, pastry around the sides, nuts on the top and a layer of caramel in the bottom. after the pastries we left and took the bus back to rabat. by the time we got back it was already 7:40. Time to study for tomorrow's arabic exam! I went to the bathroom after i got back, then came back t my room and sat down on my bed. after a while i realized... they had left my dinner sitting on the table in my room because they know i'm studying for my exam! my family is so sweet!
Monday
My exam wasn't nearly as hard as I expected. There were a couple of words that I couldn't for the life of me remember, but otherwise it really wasn't bad at all. After the exam I got to talk to Tricia again and had a nice lunch with my friends. We had a class on how Morocco is dealing with past human rights abuses, then watched a movie for my film class. It was about street children and it was soooooo sad. it was kind of like slumdog millionaire except without any of the happy ending. actually there was very little happiness at all. but the film class starts as soon as we get back from our week long southern excursion which I leave for on Saturday. Don't worry though, my friend is bringing his internet USB port thing so I'll be posting, but I'm not sure how well skype works on it so don't expect awesome communication. ok i'm going to spend a few sentences complaining and then i promise i'll stop because i know it's awesome that i'm in africa and I really love it here, but today I got off skype with jason and i just put my head down. i'm just so done with the frustration of trying to communicate. I'm doing my best with the blog, but it's so frustrating having skype be soo slow, so much so that the video doesn't work or the sound is wicked delayed and trying to get in touch with everyone is such a pain! when I was talking to megan I realized just how frustrated i am with it. i resent not being able to call people for their birthdays, or just call when i think of them. i'm usually so on top of it, but it's just not possible here and it's wearing on me. ok, I promise i'm done. anyway, I met my friend back at my house, where we talked for a long time. she just broke up with her boyfriend after a 3 year relationship and a summer of complicated-ness. It broke my heart to see her so upset. so we talked for a while and ate my chocolate cereal. I think by the time she left she felt shwiya (a little) better. after she left, my house actually lost power, so I went upstairs with Chaimaa, where we laid in bed and made shadow puppets on the wall by candle-light. we got the power back, ate dinner (pasta!) and called it an early night. It's a good thing I did because I'm so exhausted. i haven't caught up on sleep from the weekend, then the arabic test just sent me over the edge i think.
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